F's rescaped 4ft

With the heat we have had over the last few days, I noticed the school is stuck to the surface, even a few hours after a midnight WC ...

Added an air stone to get some surface movement going and to act as a water lift at the same time.

Within a few minutes nobody is solidly stuck to the surface ...



stone is on the opposite side of where the canister is - so it probably adds some much needed circulation and not just surface movement.



based on last years experimentation - this should boots buce root and leaf growth ... lets see.

Also added stone to Lucky13 - since the BBA is winning that battle maybe this has a knock on affect.

Later Ferdie

 

some die back - all I can assume it the higher water temps we had in December ...



did remove some plants ..



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Still looks awesome as always

 

Must say that this time it still looks awesome, after your itchy fingers got stuck in there!!

 

So. Much. Growth.

Hope my tank looks like this one day

Do you have CO2 in there?

 

No CO2 in any at the moment in a aeration experimentation phase ..

Later Ferdie

 

Bit of a mess - have done zeron on this one - well did add some water today and rinse the pre-filter on the intake.



No clue why I have a intake strainer in the right corner ..... weird.

Later Ferdie

 

I like....
I like a lot!

 

Might be time to jump in on this succer also.

Later Ferdie

 

@A new day @f-fish is the master at trying the unconventional, with great sucsess. I havn't seen any of his jungle tanks that looks crap. Even though he didn't listen to my advise I must admit it dies look way better now

 

Just be carfull with the advice he gives. Most of the time I need to google what he's talking about, just to make sence of it.

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Lol - thanks guys that put a smile on my dial. I am messing with food as a plant supplement at the moment ... more precisely mushrooms .... might be anecdotal but into a first week of feeding the fish some mushrooms and the plants look well healthier .. I have been prepping the tank as an experiment for bringing it back from the dead .. i.e. no WC way too much nutrients etc then wait till one sees some algae (GSA) - i.e. something is now out of balance and plant growth stagnates ... then add some fresh mushroom. This stems from the success of doing the 24x7 aeration that fixed the bacterial imbalance on Lucky 13 and the others - reminder here the thinking was vitamin B12 over supply was being created by the wrong bacteria and that signaled the BBA to grow like crazy. The idea that mushrooms have loads of other B's and none of the B12 ... could kickstart new growth and healthier bacteria even without WC's - again a WC is to flush the system not only of minerals but all sorts of amino acids, maybe growth triggers etc etc ..

But Ja .. I think this type of thread is why some content really needs to be captured on a forum and not on social media .. but maybe that is just me.


Week 1 and the buce is pushing new growth - what changed .. added some mushroom as fish food over and above the rest of the normal routine. I know it is not a salt based nutrient shortage so now we dig.

Later Ferdie

 

nah ... just some reading and experimenting, in short we might be missing some more natural ways of keeping things in balance vs just flush and wasting resources all the time, yes this hobby is very very wasteful ...

Later Ferdie

 

Remember 90% of the time when you have an algae issue the first thing is do a BIG WC ... I would really like to stop telling people that.

For this to be true we need a different toolbelt ... I am hopping that the mushroom is part of that toolset, just because it is a bit different in thinking.

But time will tell, I am in no rush.

Later Ferdie

 

I agree, we need to look at how nature takes care of things.