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Balloon Fish · 08-21-2005, 11:47 AM

The take over of the water sprite was completed when they finally taken half of the tank. During this picture i have already been fertilizing the tank using the EI method for about 2 to 4 weeks and the growth has been crazy. Also the bba at this time has been rollling in and out and some other algae (the worst case of bba was on the dwarf hairgrass). Since the last update i've added a little piece of plastic to the outlet of the HOB that lays on top of the water in a wall position and it stops all of the surface agitation and greatly increases the amount of co2 in the tank. I've also moved the small piece of driftwood to the tank to grow some java ferns on it as you can see in the middle of the tank with the little rubber bands on them

. Oh ya and during this time i neglected the tank for 2 weeks cause i wanted to let the plants grow out, the pic above is after 1 1/2 weeks of no clipping, but i dont remember if i did a water change yet :/ maybe i didnt lol oh well didn't matter anyways. Heres a pic of the ludwigia repens that almost spanned the whole tank but i cut it up cause it was badly shading out some plants.

I think its time for another tank spec update

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Fish- 12 neons, 2 albino guppies (1male, 1female), 3 ottos, 1 bristlenose pleco, dont remember if i moved the balloon bellies or not yet but i do later on

, and 1 black balloon bellied molly (the only baby that all 20 of my balloon bellied mollies had, guess they all became infertile after that baby was born)
Plants-
Ludwigia repens
Bacopa Carolina
Water Sprite
Dwarf Hairgrass
Hornwort
Apanogeton
Java Fern
Anarcharis
Guppy Grass
A little remaining java moss on the wood that evetualy makes it through the bad algae stage

Dosing- EI Method By Tom Barr and avalon helped me out with what to do and what differnt algae/growth patters represented

Day 1: Dose KNO3 and PO4
Day 2: Flourish
Day 3: Same as day 1
Day 4: Same as day 2
Day 5: Same as day 1
Day 6: Same as day 2
Day 7: Same as day 1 and 50% water change
Day 8: start over at day 1
Co2- Running at 25ppm no problems (yet...)

Edit: forgot to mention that i ordered some cherry shrimp from some guy in wisconsin but when they got here the bags were leaking and all the shrimp were dead

But there was some guppy grass in the box and i stuck it in the tank. I e-mailed the guy and he told me he would send me replacements and i asked him if he was selling anything else and he gave me a big list so i also ordered 3 amanos, pennywort, dwarf sags, and some illegal H. polysperma (<---best plant to start a tank with)

. He sent them out the next Monday via DHL and everything got here alive

.

08-21-2005, 11:47 AM	#4 (permalink)
Balloon Fish Super Fish Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: San Antonio, Texas Posts: 3,025	June 2005 The take over of the water sprite was completed when they finally taken half of the tank. During this picture i have already been fertilizing the tank using the EI method for about 2 to 4 weeks and the growth has been crazy. Also the bba at this time has been rollling in and out and some other algae (the worst case of bba was on the dwarf hairgrass). Since the last update i've added a little piece of plastic to the outlet of the HOB that lays on top of the water in a wall position and it stops all of the surface agitation and greatly increases the amount of co2 in the tank. I've also moved the small piece of driftwood to the tank to grow some java ferns on it as you can see in the middle of the tank with the little rubber bands on them . Oh ya and during this time i neglected the tank for 2 weeks cause i wanted to let the plants grow out, the pic above is after 1 1/2 weeks of no clipping, but i dont remember if i did a water change yet :/ maybe i didnt lol oh well didn't matter anyways. Heres a pic of the ludwigia repens that almost spanned the whole tank but i cut it up cause it was badly shading out some plants. I think its time for another tank spec update - Fish- 12 neons, 2 albino guppies (1male, 1female), 3 ottos, 1 bristlenose pleco, dont remember if i moved the balloon bellies or not yet but i do later on , and 1 black balloon bellied molly (the only baby that all 20 of my balloon bellied mollies had, guess they all became infertile after that baby was born) Plants- Ludwigia repens Bacopa Carolina Water Sprite Dwarf Hairgrass Hornwort Apanogeton Java Fern Anarcharis Guppy Grass A little remaining java moss on the wood that evetualy makes it through the bad algae stage Dosing- EI Method By Tom Barr and avalon helped me out with what to do and what differnt algae/growth patters represented Day 1: Dose KNO3 and PO4 Day 2: Flourish Day 3: Same as day 1 Day 4: Same as day 2 Day 5: Same as day 1 Day 6: Same as day 2 Day 7: Same as day 1 and 50% water change Day 8: start over at day 1 Co2- Running at 25ppm no problems (yet...) Edit: forgot to mention that i ordered some cherry shrimp from some guy in wisconsin but when they got here the bags were leaking and all the shrimp were dead But there was some guppy grass in the box and i stuck it in the tank. I e-mailed the guy and he told me he would send me replacements and i asked him if he was selling anything else and he gave me a big list so i also ordered 3 amanos, pennywort, dwarf sags, and some illegal H. polysperma (<---best plant to start a tank with). He sent them out the next Monday via DHL and everything got here alive . __________________ 20g Planted Journal 40g Invert Breeding Tank Last edited by Balloon Fish; 08-21-2005 at 12:00 PM.