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Good afternoon all!

I have another time lapse for you. This one min video shows about 3 weeks of growth after topping the bunch of plants directly in the foreground.

How do you think my...

Thank you!

I'm working on 2 more right now. I trimmed a stem plant and left the bottoms planted - I'm taking a time lapse of how it grows out, then I'll trim it again and plant the tops and take...

Hello all!

I've never used Youtube before so I'm hoping this works,...
I left for a little over a week for Christmas vacation, while I was gone I pointed a webcam down the side of my tank and had...

I built a big reactor, and I'm pushing over 500 GPH through it without a single micro bubble. I do not chop the bubbles up before they go into the reactor however, they are injected straight in the...

I had allot of success with dirt bottom tanks, I even ran my 180 that way for over a year, but I remember that finding the proper dirt was a big part of the equation. I don't remember why at this...

I tried the PH controller thing as well. It is remarkable how fast the PH Probe goes out of calibration, I ended up causing more problems than I solved, and CO2 level was less stable then when I...

I really like this style of planting, that tank is so bright and colorful it really just captures your attention.
Nicely done!

Whiskey

No wonder you love it! That is one cool looking plant.

Nice tank!
Whiskey

I always like it when I don't have to do anything :)

So, I think I may have dried it out too much now because the plants started to look significantly less healthy, not in a chemical burn kind of...

It looks like the Hydrogen Peroxide and dryer tank is doing it's thing! The Fungus or Mold is way reduced today, after this most recent spraying I bet it will be gone completely. I caught it at the...

I too have noticed that flow makes a huge difference in planted aquariums, I once had a 180 planted tank that I reduced down to only 400 gph of flow, after doing so I noticed I had fish mortality...

I can't believe it,.. I finally solved this.

Keeping the tank colder had a temporary effect, but it only slowed growth rather than stopping it, what I did about 3 weeks ago seems to have stopped...

Another thing I've found to be helpful at keeping algae at bay in a low light tank is some kind of emergent growth such as duckweed on the surface of the tank. I'm not sure if this is because it...

So Hydrogen Peroxide is less toxic? Wow, I would not have guessed that, Hydrogen peroxide it is. I just finished spraying down the tank and substrate (it all had tiny white dots on it) with a 1-4...

Thanks for the tips Biollante! If it works it's worth much more than two cents ;)

Does the Hydrogen Peroxide kill the fungus? What about Excel? Have you had any experience with that killing...

Thanks for the info Matt!
I got lucky with the Humidor Fungus, it happened to be almost empty at the time, only one causality. :)

I'm a bit concerned with the tank though, as I look really close...

Here's where my tank is at now, I'm excited to say that there has been noticeable growth! Since everything was doing so well I added some more HC, and even threw some crypts in there about a week...

Hmmmm.

Something just occurred to me. I once got fungus in my Cigar Humidor (It was a disaster) and it was caused by having the humidity too high. Since then I have prevented a re-occurance of...

Thanks for the advice Tom!
I can remove the plastic back part of the glass tops I have, this will allow me to slide that back and forth to create the size vent I need to keep the condensation to...

Oh man! I know why your bummed, I love blastos.
Good looking tank you have there, that candycane on the right will get huge for you! I had one in my 180, got it as a single head, years later even...

This is where the tank is right now:
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The spray bar and intake will get painted black before the end of this.

Note the remote weather monitoring thing in the tank, this will tell me tank...

Hello All!

I've never done a dry start before so I'm going to give it a try with my new tank setup.

First a question, this is a 48X18X20 inch tank with 4x54 W Tek T5's. Should I run all 4...

Okay, I think I have a plan.
Instead of the Magnum 350, I will use a quiet one pump that is rated for 550 GPH, after head loss through all the 90 deg fittings that should give me 300-400 GPH.
I...