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Yeah, I've seen it red just not like that.

I question whether that's a legit picture personally. I've read posts over on TPT by Tom Barr talking about people taking shots and adjusting them with photoshop. I'm not so sure Blyxa would turn that color. That's pretty much purple.

Yeah, the blyxa has actually yellowed a little over the last week while I was gone, but I have a feeling its due to lack of macros. I started dosing today so I'm looking for the tank to really green up this week.

The original plan was for me to start dosing ferts using the EI method that Sunday, but due to business and personal opportunity I left town for a week, leaving my Mom to just look over everything and feed the fish. When I returned I found a several stems floating. Some stuff was doing well...

It's been a while since I've posted an update here and quite a bit has changed. I've got the pressurized CO2 running utilizing a filter housing style reactor. It's been working wonderfully. Two weeks ago I made a huge plant order to get this thing planted for real and it showed up a two...

I finally have some serious plants in this thing. Still no job, but I have some sidework happening so I should be able to get the CO2 running and the ferts ordered this week. Thankfully. Petco was having a sale on plants and I just couldn't help myself. They had some really good looking swords...

Well if I had my choice, I'd have another tank to put the cichlids in. However, considering I've had to move back in to my parents house after losing my job and fiance, I'm not in the position to have another one. Really I'm lucky I can keep my 75 set up.

Ok, I'll get mom to have the guy email me the stock list. I really just don't want to do away with the whole planted idea. Non-planted tanks seem half finished to me.

What types would make it possible? I don't have all the information from the guy yet but I'm trying to figure out if I should tell mom to get more information or not.

Yeah, I absolutely love the new substrate. Just straight eco looks a lot cleaner than having the gravel mixed into it. I'm really aching to get more plants in there. Painting the back with the Valspar satin black latex made a HUGE difference too. The whole tank just looks cleaner and put...

So this weekend my mom came home to tell me that a guy she works with is breaking down one of his 4 massive tanks, which happens to be a cichlid tank. He's offered to give them to me if I want them, so they are taken care of well. I'm really really tempted as I think most cichlids are...

Everything is going awesome it seems. I think I avoided a cycle of any kind. The UV is helping keep the water super clear. The big issue is I have a friend of my moms offering to give me a whole troupe of cichlids for free. FREE. So I'm really really tempted to take him up on his offer, however...

Yeah, I have the Eheim shut-off connectors inline on my hoses. I basically just closed the ball valves before draining the tank so the filters were full the entire time. Granted it wasn't a constant cycle of fresh water so some of it might have died off but I think enough survived to keep any...

Then it was time for the tank to go on the stand. I tried to level the stand and tank as well as I could but since its on carpet, that's kind of difficult. I started the substrate by putting in some of the older eco-complete/gravel mixture I was previously using. It's got some of the old...

Way big update time. So I finally got moved, and completed the long process of re-setting everything up. The first day of breaking everything down I didn't keep track of the time but the second day I put in about 14 hours putting everything together. The first step was painting the back of...

Awesome! I'll investigate into those to see if I can determine for sure if that's what he is. I love him, and he's the only one I couldn't part with. Plus I like that he seems to be staying to a smallish size so he won't bulldoze the eventual plants I put in.

These are all things I would love to be able to acquire from you in the near future. You're close (I live in TN) so it would aid in getting things here quickly and healthy :) Ignore the locations below, I copy/pasted from a different place. Foreground Lilaeopsis novae-zelandiae - 'Micro Sword'...

Well, I'm not full force into finishing this up yet, until after I move (ETA 2 weeks). I'm planning a major shift in the hardscape when I do it, which I think will make this look 1000x better. I want to go ahead and use black latex paint to do the background, verses using the taped on...

The light arrived today. The difference between light intensity is astounding. I've also made a couple of really big orders this past week. I have 100lbs of eco-complete, 2 200w Hydor ETH heaters, a coralife turbotwist 3x 9w UV sterilizer, some eheim parts, and a full CO2 system from...

Just ordered my Catalina Aquarium Solar T5HO 4x54 fixture. YAY!

Thanks, Craig. I'm thinking about moving this over to that forum since it's more along the lines of planted tanks. I'm trying to make sure I do this right, and I want to avoid pitfalls by discussing it with others beforehand. AA is great for beginners, but once you get past that, and aren't...

Bought the PVC for my reactor today. I'm still trying to decide if I want to go after a piece of clear PVC for the main tube. Does anyone know if Lowes or Home Depot would carry something like that? Also is the standard PVC glue ok for fish? I want to double check that. I haven't seen any...

Hrmmm, ok that's fair enough, but how do you know the flow has slowed? I don't have any kind of indicator other than looking at the top of the water. That's inaccurate at best lol. I'm mainly trying to decide how to get this **** water to clear up. Just did a test to double check for a...

After all the new 'scaping I did yesterday, my water is still slightly cloudy and I'm sure the filters are full of crap from moving all the substrate around. I'm new to having canisters so I'm curious. How long do you wait in between maintenance? How often should I change the fine floss? How...