• colourlesspony@pawb.social
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    1 year ago

    I need to do like an 80% water change to get ride of the tannins. I put the wood on left in a few weeks ago. The tanks been running since 2020.

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      1 year ago

      Looks fantastic! What fish do you have in there? And what do you like to feed them? :)

      My tank was pretty heavily tannined. I did a few 25%s and one 90% and that cleared it up remarkably. There’s still some tannins, but my tank is clearing up a lot.

      That header pic is when it was bad. This pic is after the 90% change (without fish in it, I cleaned it before introducing them)

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        1 year ago

        Thanks! I have guppies and zebra danios. I feed them frozen blood worms and bug bites but some times I change things up.

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        1 year ago

        Thanks! That’s like a honeycomb print, fluval does that on a lot of their tanks. Claims it hides the water level and any calcium buildup

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      1 year ago

      I see you have also done the floating ring technique! I just did it to mine, and it’s helped a lot :3

      I like your plants too!

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      1 year ago

      That’s cute! Do the plants on top grow in the aquarium water? Why do you have to sell it?

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        1 year ago

        It has an overhead trickle filter box that I emptied out and replaced with Seachem Fluorite Red (I also did another filter the exact same way but with LECA and the plants grew just as well in that too) and put baby terrestrial plants into. Baby plants arent so baby any more lol.

        https://i.postimg.cc/J04sT3zx/20231115-162401.jpg

        I’m disabled and my health issues have just gotten worse over time so I have to sell most of my aquariums including this one. Sucks balls as I had some really cool ideas to try out, but such is life. I’ll still have two plus my ponds 🐟💙

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      1 year ago

      This is my betta tank. He is called Baard, but he is asleep because I took the picture at night.

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      1 year ago

      Just a handful of pygmy corydoras and one Otto catfish. My aquarium is a nano 4.3gal, so I don’t want to overburden it. I love it, though :)

  • Fashtas 🇦🇺@aussie.zone
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    1 year ago

    Walstad tank. Needs to be neatened up a bit. Pulled 3 swords and some Java fern out to give away but no one locally wants them

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        1 year ago

        Wow! That’s awesome. I’d love a bigger tank someday. How manageable is the 40?

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          1 year ago

          Thank you. This tank is pretty easy with the exception of the pond lilly on the right. It’s supposed to be a dwarf but I have to cut out lilies and flowers every week.