Adam do you use uv?
With all.the traveling You do maybe you should set up a video cam on the tank for a live stream... almost as good as being there!
Anubias looks great! Nice mother plant and from your pics it’s growing nicely. Thing is anubias are slow growers and the leaves may take weeks to reach full size.
Adam do you use uv?
With all.the traveling You do maybe you should set up a video cam on the tank for a live stream... almost as good as being there!
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Tom… thanks for advice… patience might be a simple answer.
Al… I don’t use UV… just simple LED lamp. It’s for aquariums but nothing special I think.
And webcam clearly a great idea… will get something set up once back in Shanghai.
Crap... I didn't realize it's already has been one month since last update. Even though really busy with work these days I do maintain iron discipline around the tank. Everything per schedule and some progress in certain areas.
- algae continue to be a problem but after knocking down the light to 30% intensity I think I'm on the way to somewhere. Problem seems to be smaller though still exists
- one of the reasons for algae growth was filter with activated carbon... at least from my assessment. What lead me to think this way was that algae growth was only happening on one side of the tank... the other side had some but very minor. The only differences between two sides was (1) feeding on one side and (2) outflow for filter with activated carbon. Yes, I know and remember... you told me to kill this filter long time ago but really forgot I have it in all the recent racing in work. So I changed this filter to regular with ceramics promoting bacteria... still feeding where I used to and problem seems to be dramatically smaller. Hence my conclusion
- assassin snails are gift from God . I put only 4-5 in my 80G tank and had to wait 2-3 weeks but they ate absolutely every one of pest snails I had in this tank. There is ZERO (and I mean zero) of them in the tank right now and funny enough assassin snails themselves maintain population of around 10 with weaker ones/smaller ones just being eaten.
Other than that discus are growing... one of them much faster... probably crossed 5 inches at this stage... than I have middle of the pack with 5 of them approaching 5 inches and couple that are probably half an inch behind. But all good, happy and most importantly healthy (knock the wood).
Some phots attached though I still didn't learn how to do justice to my fish and tank. Something to learn...
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Looking great! Keep up the good work!!
AWESOME tank Adam !! I love reading these journals people post. I soon will be posting picks and what on my journal I stared. My tank is being delivered tomorrow and I feel like a kid at Christmas time. Keep up the good work - your fish look awesome.
thank you... I saw your thread as well... looking forward to seeing your set-up. It does feel like X-mas
Keep up the great work Adam, everything looks great I have to agree with AL every time I see your tank my eyes go to the reddish color discus.
great post...New from the UK.....looking for tefe greens.
I love those stones in there! What are they?
Honestly... no idea. I live in China... a lot of things I'm buying it's more a matter of look and feel... these just matched the look I wanted to get for my tank. They seem to be some form of basalt... most importantly don't impact water parameters, which I had to test as well as I was setting this up. There is tones of great stuff you can get here... but a lot of purchasing comes to hit one/miss few.
Top advice Tom..... I have made the mistake of discus in a big planted tank....will not go down this road again.....as much as I like planted tanks....as a family man with a manual job I just couldn,t do it all...
Things are rolling slowly forward… no major events… well, except for one fish that decided to go on a diet… rest is working fine. Feel my tank is really fully cycled now… took actually quite a long time… but as it happened all things balanced out. Algae is almost no problem anymore (knock the wood)… water continue to look super clear and fish are growing though different individuals at quite different rates. Had the biggest one I mentioned before… he kind of slowed down now but another one is catching up quickly. Very interesting to watch them grow. I also think they are becoming less and less “beaky” (obviously we all think about our fish better than they are). Few pictures from Friday.
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Adam,
All looks great. Looking at your fish I see alot of males.. not sure i have seen females.. do you have any you think are female or have your seen any spawning behavior?
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