what are you doing today that is tank related?

thanks...we went back to the lfs where we got the heater that malfunctioned and they made it right with us and gave us an aqueon 5o watt.

 

picking up a new heater and a digital thermometer while I'm at it for the 2.5g (the heater currently in there isn't doing squat).

Foster&Smith grabbed the 50w marineland Stealth Pro heater for $20.48 shipped using a $5.00 off any order coupon code. Apparently the 7.5w Hydor is either defective cuz I sure can't feel any heat coming from it...or simply too low of a wattage to do anything being winter time and the tank being located on a wall where there are windows within a few feet?
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SuntekStore got the digital thermometer shipped to my door for only $3.74
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And my local lfs sells these for almost $20.00!

 

putzing with the new 10g and deciding what to do with it.

 

Water changes on all 9 tanks.

 

Trying to bring the first breeding shed back on line after the remodel this winter

Rick

 

water changes and general tank cleaning.

 

feeding and pruning plants.

 

Taking a couple of tanks to a friend because her 180 gallon ruptured last night. What a mess

Rick

 

later this evening will be any gsa removal via scraper & partials on the 90g & both 10g's...followed by flourish excel dosage to the 90g...and feedings again.

 

Just took delivery of 120 pounds of eco complete, my RO/DI unit and 3 extra cartridges for each filter housing, um the via aqua came in and it sure looks purty.

as soon as my background gets here I can start the build. using seaview and need to get the BG on before the tank can even be posisitioned.

My GSA only lasts maybe a day or two. the SAE's and the RNP take care of it.

 

well looks like tomorrow will be waterchange and what not day...been feverish the past 2 days and ended up crashing

 

I'm week 3 in a cycling 29 gal. so testing and water changes and admiration for awhile. LOL

 

well my background showed up so I am going to get that on and start setting up the filtration and start the tank today maybe.


Dawn, I got the via aqua in, its freakin purty.

 

Haha! I never thought of a purty heater.

*jealous because mine are not purty* LoL

 

nothing special... i fed my fish today ._. was hoping my new fish would eat, but not yet.... guess i jsut gotta give it more time

 

Last night I started converting my other 55 gallon from a terrarium back into an aquarium. The terrarium hobby was very short lived, and I felt it was kind of a waste of a good 55 gallon tank. Cleaned it all out and just added new substrate. It's a mix of pea pebble and plant substrate that looks like substrate taken from a lake. Even though the plant substrate is supposedly filled with bacteria I don't trust it, so I washed it (I was told that most of the time the bacteria in those bags die anyway). Now I'm just waiting for what remains of the cloudiness to settle to see how it looks. I'm thinking of picking up a bag of red stone plant substrate to mix in with all that (I really like how that stuff looked but it only came in 16lb bags, and that stuff is $20 a bag). Not quite sure yet what I'm going to turn this tank into, but I know it's going to have another army of corydoras, only in this one it's going to only be two types, around 6 sterbai and 6 Panda, and of course a Pleco or two lol. It's actually exciting starting up another tank. I haven't started from scratch in quite a while!

 

It's sort of funny, starting a tank after over 25 years was like going back to school (especially now with the internet) I was expecting major headaches and long drawn out processes. [banghead] But It went quite smoothly and the tank cycled in less than 3 weeks. I do not envy all the work your doing but do envy your excitement of how to sock a 55 gal, and the thrill of putting it together. Congrates.

 

Well the easy going times are over Bought 2 Kribs yesterday and 10 ghost shrimp. By the time I got home 1 krib was on his side. Don't have a quaratine tank set up so 2 hr of accl This morning all that was left is bones the shrimp got to him I guess. Just now I pulled out 8 dead shrimp 2 larger ones seem ok AND the female krib has ich starting. quaritine tank here we come.I'll be busting tail for next few hours and already tired from a cold. The fun of Aquariums. Pay back for bragging about easy time.

 

Just been tinkering with an air line not staying where I put it in the powerhead.

 

I sold my new 60 cube I won last summer at the ACA... It's the first time in many years I've actually sold a tank. Now I can use the money to invest in a new vertical stand for 12, 10 gallon grow out tanks.