Tedr, ( Is your name Ted or is Tedr your last name or is your name just Tedr?
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I added 6 amano's yesterday...I think there all dead. I found two but I haven't seen the others. I took them out of a colder (70ish degree) tank and just put them into 80 degree water. I thought they would be fine because they're pretty rowdy shrimp, but alas
I think there all dead. Witch will contribute to my algae problem because I can't find their corpses
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I have some otto cats in another tank that I will move to this tank, but the bioload is getting pretty high. I guess I'll put 5 in...do you think that will be enough? As far as SAE's I don't think I will be able to obtain them locally.
I have some red cherries but they will become food for the apisto's I think, but I may try just to see.
Where can I get Nerite snails? I've always heard they were great, but I've never know were to get them?
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My fert routine consists of 4 X 7L drinking water dispensers each with a different nutrient i.e. one for N , P , K , and Trace. I use a graduated cylinder to add the appropriate ml to the tank to get the right ppm in that tank. I may be a little off on the amount of ml's I add, but its not too far off. Particularly for phosphate, I made the solution to concentrated (50g/L) so I only have to 6.4ml's to get 2ppm of P. So I may be a little over on that, but otherwise I think those are the correct dosages. I used Chuck's calculator a scale accurate to the gram to make the stock solutions.
I went ahead and pulled the val, how should I treat with excel. I've been misting the plants when I do water changes , but I can't really tell the difference. Should I add daily or something? This is my first time really ever using excel, and I have to say I HATE how it smells. It always makes me sneeze when I mist the plants.
Great idea with moving the drop checker around!!! I never thought of that. Also I'll give my filter a good rinsing this weekend and see if that won't increase the flow a bit.
Thanks for all the input guys. I'll post some more links to pic to let you konw how it goes.
Creighton