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[-] colourlesspony@pawb.social 8 points 9 months ago

I need to do like an 80% water change to get ride of the tannins. I put the wood on left in a few weeks ago. The tanks been running since 2020.

[-] Wahots@pawb.social 3 points 9 months ago

Looks fantastic! What fish do you have in there? And what do you like to feed them? :)

My tank was pretty heavily tannined. I did a few 25%s and one 90% and that cleared it up remarkably. There's still some tannins, but my tank is clearing up a lot.

That header pic is when it was bad. This pic is after the 90% change (without fish in it, I cleaned it before introducing them)

[-] colourlesspony@pawb.social 2 points 9 months ago

Thanks! I have guppies and zebra danios. I feed them frozen blood worms and bug bites but some times I change things up.

[-] Mike85k@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago
[-] Wahots@pawb.social 4 points 9 months ago

Gorgeous! What does the mesh do? Block some light to prevent algae?

[-] Mike85k@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

Thanks! That's like a honeycomb print, fluval does that on a lot of their tanks. Claims it hides the water level and any calcium buildup

[-] EmergMemeHologram@startrek.website 5 points 9 months ago

That’s a beautiful aquarium, how large is it? Fresh out salt water?

You’re making me miss the 100 gallon aquarium we had when I was a kid!

[-] Wahots@pawb.social 4 points 9 months ago

It's tiny! 4.3gal, fresh water. Has four little pigmy corydoras and one Otto catfish to keep things clean! I want bigger, but I have a small apartment right now and I think it would be unwise to move with a large, heavy aquarium. But I love this little one. It's like a 1x1ft river bottom in a far away creek in South America. I like to watch the microfauna play in the red root floaters and the fish go after the algae and such. So far, they haven't even touched man-made food. They just want the algae I've been growing for a few weeks :)

This is the first aquarium I've also had since I was a kid, and I love it :)

[-] Fades@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago
[-] Wahots@pawb.social 3 points 9 months ago

I see you have also done the floating ring technique! I just did it to mine, and it's helped a lot :3

I like your plants too!

[-] immortaly007@feddit.nl 3 points 9 months ago

Very nice one! What is in there? Looks amazing for shrimps.

[-] immortaly007@feddit.nl 10 points 9 months ago

This is my betta tank. He is called Baard, but he is asleep because I took the picture at night.

[-] Wahots@pawb.social 3 points 9 months ago

Just a handful of pygmy corydoras and one Otto catfish. My aquarium is a nano 4.3gal, so I don't want to overburden it. I love it, though :)

[-] Thorned_Rose@kbin.social 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I am sadly having to sell this but after 2 years of fidling, I am finally happy with how this experiment turned out.

Bonsai

[-] Wahots@pawb.social 2 points 9 months ago

That's cute! Do the plants on top grow in the aquarium water? Why do you have to sell it?

[-] Thorned_Rose@kbin.social 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

It has an overhead trickle filter box that I emptied out and replaced with Seachem Fluorite Red (I also did another filter the exact same way but with LECA and the plants grew just as well in that too) and put baby terrestrial plants into. Baby plants arent so baby any more lol.

https://i.postimg.cc/J04sT3zx/20231115-162401.jpg

I'm disabled and my health issues have just gotten worse over time so I have to sell most of my aquariums including this one. Sucks balls as I had some really cool ideas to try out, but such is life. I'll still have two plus my ponds 🐟💙

[-] CDenno@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Recently cleaned and relocated to the kitchen!

[-] Wahots@pawb.social 2 points 9 months ago

The rocks really make it pop :)

[-] AcornKernel@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago
[-] AcornKernel@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

My planted 40 gallon. I have a bunch of small fish, 1 angel, and 1 pearl gourami.

[-] Wahots@pawb.social 1 points 9 months ago

Wow! That's awesome. I'd love a bigger tank someday. How manageable is the 40?

[-] AcornKernel@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

Thank you. This tank is pretty easy with the exception of the pond lilly on the right. It's supposed to be a dwarf but I have to cut out lilies and flowers every week.

[-] Wahots@pawb.social 1 points 9 months ago

Suffering from success, sounds like xD

[-] Fashtas@aussie.zone 2 points 9 months ago

Walstad tank. Needs to be neatened up a bit. Pulled 3 swords and some Java fern out to give away but no one locally wants them

[-] Wahots@pawb.social 1 points 9 months ago

Looks gorgeous :)

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