aquarium

journal for my aquarium

[kihliloch]

sand tank

9/12/17

ammonia: not tested

nitrate: not tested

nitrite: not tested

ph: 7.6

notes

-this tank has rocks in it which i collected from the forest near my house i dont know what sort of stones they are but its nothing toxic as far as i know, possibly sandstone, possibly clay stone

- im going to cycle this one with a small filter and see how well it works

- i have doubts that i will work tho

[kihliloch]

bart tank

9/12/17

ammonia: not tested

nitrate: not tested

nitrite: 0.25

ph: not tested

notes

-seems to have massive bloating

-possibly developing into dropsy

[kihliloch]

my friends 70L community and her betta, haloumi

[kihliloch]

current stocking vs one option for goals stocking

[kihliloch]

130L community tank

[kihliloch]

qwerty

[kihliloch]

qwerty tank

13/08/17

ammonia: not tested

nitrate: not tested

nitrite: not tested

ph: not tested

notes

-similarly not worried about the levels

- tank is going brilliantly

- qwerty has grown heaps

[kihliloch]

130L comm

13/08/2017

ammonia: not tested

nitrate: 0ppm

nitrite: not tested

ph: not tested

notes

- tank has been going well im not worried about the parameters so i didnt check them

-however i just did a massive clean of the filter so i hope nothing spikes

[kihliloch]

qwerty tank

20/06/17

ammonia: 0ppm

nitrate: 0 ppm (probably)

nitrite: 0ppm (probably)

ph: not tested

notes

- murky due to substrate

- its taking longer to clear up than usual but nothing worrying since usual timeframe is 2 days

- qwerty hates the other fish in the 130L comm which he can see and fights his reflection when i put the blocker up, cmon dude

- i hope this works out, heres to impulsive buys!

[kihliloch]

130L comm

20/06/17

ammonia: potentially 0.25 ppm probably 0ppm

nitrate: 10 maybe 20 ppm

nitrite: not tested

ph: not tested

notes

- removed banana lily and plastic log

- i really need to do something about the algae

[kihliloch]

Recommended water change schedule: 13% per week.

[kihliloch]

130L comm

2/06/17

ammonia: 0ppm

nitrate: 10 ppm

nitrite: 0ppm

ph: 6.6

notes

- Drunk updat!

- came home to see Peach dead!!!

- wtf!!

- checked all parmetner and everthing if fine, not enought to justify ihs death!

-nitriate is high but water change is tomorrow?? WTFF!!

- stress??

[kihliloch]

18% water change /week

[kihliloch]

130L community

26/05/17

ammonia: 0ppm

nitrate: 5.0 ppm

nitrite: 0ppm

ph: not tested

notes

- added 4 congo tetra last saturday

- found my last kuhli in the filter midweek

- congos and Peach are not completely peaceful

- tank becomes a battle ground at feeding time

- have started feeding blood worms as it seem the congos only like them

-water change is due tomorrow

[kihliloch]

tank update

[kihliloch]

130l comm

20/04/17

ammonia: 0ppm

nitrate: 0ppm? will check again this arvo

nitrite: 0ppm

ph: 7.6 (high range not tested)

notes

- neon tetra died overnight so obviously i checked all the levels; nothing is abnormal except the nitrate levels which i am attempting to fix without shocking the fish

- maybe the nirate just got to it, neons are fragile

- everything is going well other than that, all fish are happy.Peach the dwarf gourami is happy, he was added on the 08/04/17

- 50% water change on the 07/04/17 and 20% on the 09/04/17. none since

[kihliloch]

130l comm

08/04/17

ammonia: 0ppm

nitrate: 40 - 80ppm

nitrite: not tested

ph: not tested

notes

-another 1/4 water change i got too busy to keep up with them over the last few weeks

- will do another 2 in the next few days

- finally put the log in and tucked some baby java ferns into it

- kuhlis were very interested

- cut the wisteria and replanted the stem