My Planted 55gal

fixed, but why's the water hazy looking?
besides that it's very nice looking. love the ram!

 

It'll probably clear up soon But it could be, if your tank is new, that it's cycling. Then the beneficial bacteria may be clouding the water a little. Lovely setup btw!

 

let it go its course.

Nice looking tank. are you using root ferts since its in sand?

I like that 48" t5 set up, I got a 36" t5ho on my 52g fbh

 

how thick is the substrate layers? I did this and ended up damn near nuking my tank but I had 100# of flourite then 50# of sand on top so my layers were thick and went anarobic on me. only lost one of 40 fish so I was OK but very angry at not using common sense.

I have DIY Co2 on my 52fbh(same as yours but a hex front instead of right angles.) and it works very well and very consistant although I am not sure of this new powerhead as its diffuser, the bubbles are much larger then with my penguin 660.

 

test it and see what the readings come up...it may be still cycling or going through a mini cycle.
Other than that if it's just hazy and not looking algae'ish the only thing you can do is a high partial and dose it with something like Seachem Clarity or Kent's Pro Clear and give it a day.

 

Looks Good

 

Congrates on the filter

 

Are you sure you are down to 1 (did you find a body?) Them buggers hide like no other especially with sand.

I had the same substrate set up and it didnt work well for me down the road it became very unstable, I think the sand cap really capped off the flourite. I cleaned it one day and my ammonia went from 0 to 8.0 instantly. I lost a few fish but had another tank set up that they moved into rather hastily.

also, in that size tank think about upping the number of kuhlli's to around 10-12.

 

I got my sponges from ebay seller is aquatic magic. the yellow ones.

Ok cool, most people think of them as loaches which are almost always on the move, Heck I didnt know I bred them till the fry were a little over an inch and a half long.

Kuhllis do best in huge schools or shoals. Its not uncommon to pick up a creek bed leaf in asia and find hundreds piled up. I sold 11 of mine to Dawn and maybe 8 or so were bred here in my 52. I thought I left 3 in my tank but last night I saw a good dozen of them possibly more, Last time they all came out it was to teach the new ones the tank and stuff.

I love em.
how can you not love a face like this.


you jsut have one dojo? how does it get along with the smaller cousins?

Id really think about adding double what you want in there, yes they are bottom feeders but from what youve listed as bottom feeders you only have a few burrowers.

Do you keep snails in this tank at all for sand filtering?

 

Ive been breeding MTS for years, I havent caught any in my filters at all. prefilters are your best friends.

If you want/need MTS let me know I got a tank full of porkers.

MTS are a larger snail species and unless there is no prefilter on the intake and only if they are pretty much under 2 weeks old they can get in the strainers but not thru the foam.

I keep several AC20's on the tank with open intakes and dont have a problem with that.

In a planted tank the MTS is your best friend. They do not overpopulate, they breed to the tank conditions and bear live young not eggs. AND they are mainly nocturnal which is even better. They also will come to the top of the water if water quality is less then ideal. I think of them as coal miner canaries for the planted tank as they will show signs of distress before the plant do and well before the fish do.

 

Yes. ten is a good number but 20 would be better. I got thousands about 1/2-1" long and about 1/4-1/2" around, I make em fat and big for my food source customers.

I put a sponge prefilter like these on the inlets
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what canister are you getting?