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Comment on Tank Plumbing Technical Diagram by Marc Digital

Marc Digital — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 17:03:54 +0000

Awesome, truely awesome! I love it all.

Comment on Tank Plumbing Technical Diagram by Rob

Rob — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 20:37:32 +0000

bad ass dude!

Comment on Thread algae woes. Thread algae understood? by gauny

gauny — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 00:15:03 +0000

l couldn’t help but read this since i have the same problem with my 40g planted tank. My moss clumps have been in the flow of my canister filter the entire time i’ve had it set up and they are the only plant with algae growing on it. i’ll have to fix that and hopefully that should help. Thank alot.

Comment on New Tropica plants by Xediks

Xediks — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 23:25:53 +0000

Great blog, found here all that was looking for.

Comment on Thread algae woes. Thread algae understood? by PatShelby

PatShelby — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 21:32:30 +0000

There’s good info here. I did a search on the topic and found most people will agree with your blog. Keep up the good work mate!

Comment on Thread algae woes. Thread algae understood? by Colby

Colby — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 02:10:52 +0000

love your site, the discus look amazing. I am curious as to why you think that the silica sand in any tank would lead to any more algal growth than the silica glass of the tank itself? My understanding is that the main types of growth due to excess silicates are diatoms but that they can extract the silica from the glass as easily as from the sand. I would be afraid of removing all of the sand (mainly due to the pain of the task) because of the loss of the beneficial bacteria. Quartz sand would be another option, which is what I use but that is basically silica too. I would bet that the phosphates were as much the culprit as anything.

Comment on One Year! Woohoo! by scolley

scolley — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 11:30:11 +0000

Thanks! But the plant’s aren’t actually random… their just supposed to look random. Some of it is deliberate… tall in back, short on edges and in front, open areas for feeding, that kinda stuff. But it is NOT hard aquascaped - that’s for sure.

I got to cockatoos from a local breeder.They got HUGE. I mean really big. I guess in a big enough tank they can get pretty large. Unfortunately they all turned out to be a bad match with breeding discus. As you know, dwarf cichlids are territorial. So the discus would mark out an area for spawning, lay their eggs, and I’d wake up the morning after to find a dead cockatoo. Every time it happen it was after a fresh spawn. Now there are no more cockatoos. I just did not know that would happen. It’s too bad, ‘cuz it’s my fault for putting them in there, and I really like those fish too. Bummer.

Comment on One Year! Woohoo! by Rick

Rick — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 19:45:50 +0000

Beautiful aquarium! I love what you have done with the flora!!!!! It is not landscaped and thats what I like about it!!!!! My attention draws out to randomly planted aquariums because in the wild that’s how it is! Plants grow everywhere ! I just started a 55 gal planted! I have many plants in already I’m just waiting for some ground cover and background plants from the importer but other than that it is comming along! As for the fuana .. I love the cockatoo dwarf cichlids ! They look amazing!! Where did you get them from???

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Comment on Thread algae woes. Thread algae understood? by nervietry

nervietry — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 13:29:41 +0000

Great site this wetplantlogic.com and I am really pleased to see you have what I am actually looking for here and this this post is exactly what I am interested in. I shall be pleased to become a regular visitor

Comment on Thread algae woes. Thread algae understood? by scolley

scolley — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 21:31:41 +0000

It’s funny with this stuff. I don’t ever see it appear initially except high flow areas - like that outflow in the pic. But once it’s in the tank, it does seem to be able to migrate to lower flow areas. I’ve got Taiwan moss in low flow areas that it seems to built up. I’m not surprised to hear that you’ve got it in your E. tenellus. I’ve had other Echinodorus sp. that it attacked in another tank. You might check those silicates too.

And YES! We did see David at the Accademia in Florence. What a spectacular city! Thanks for asking!

Comment on Thread algae woes. Thread algae understood? by Walter Donila

Walter Donila — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 04:34:21 +0000

I have a 75 gallon, heavily planted, CO2 injection, high light tank. with high filtration. I’m experiencing the same difficulties you are with thread algae. The plants are prospering quite well, but I do have that annoying algae. But with my tank, I have pockets of low water flow, where the algae seems to build-especially around some tennullus, that occassionally may have a bad leaf. I’m reducing my phosphate dosage as well, in hopes it will limit the algae, and cleaning up the plants a bit better. Oh, by the way, did you ever get to see the statue of David while you were in Tuscany?

Comment on Thread algae woes. Thread algae understood? by admin

admin — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 11:46:20 +0000

Good question. I wish I knew of one. I haven’t done an exhaustive search lately, but I did look the when I first suspected this linkage a couple of years ago, and did not find a way to remove silicates alone.
And it’s not just the phosphates I’m worried about removing. It’s all the other great stuff too. There are SO many good things in tap water for aquatic plants. While I don’t know what they all are, their presence is the reason that lot’s of planted tank people with serious RO/DI rigs still mix in a good bit of tap water. Otherwise they have to “reconstruct” their water. And I’d rather not have to get into that if I can avoid it.
For that reason, if I can’t beat this by phosphate limitation, I’m inclined to try serious reduction of water change frequency - so the plants can absorb the silicates faster than they are coming in - and removal of the sand on the bottom of the tank. That could take care of this algae, and allow me to get out of the very tight maintenance of phosphate levels.

Comment on Thread algae woes. Thread algae understood? by Walter Donila

Walter Donila — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 04:01:31 +0000

Steve, any way of removing silicates without R/O process, and retaining phosphates?

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Comment on New Tropica plants by Curare

Curare — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 04:54:43 +0000

Hey STEVE! I just found your site. the tank’s looking suprisingly good, considering your near disaster.

It might be worth mentioning I too have gone back to the siesta, and it seems to work for me, I get the occasional patch of bba from still running DIY CO2, but I haven’t cleaned the glass in over 4 months!

Looking forward to your next post, when you get a new compy!

Comment on Tank Electrical Technical Diagram by scolley

scolley — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 23:09:38 +0000

Thanks Bob. That’s a good suggestion! I didn’t know you could do that.

But actually this summer I taught my son to swap out electrical sockets and switches, and I had him upgrade every socket in the house. And since he’s still young and not an overweight old man… he was able to squeeze in the stand and replace the wall socket with a GFI socket. It was tight, and it took a bit of coaching from the old man, but we did it!

Comment on Tank Electrical Technical Diagram by Bob

Bob — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 16:51:36 +0000

Hi Steve, if you don’t mind having the entire circuit on GFI you could replace the breaker in your main circuit breaker box with a GFI breaker.

This is an awesome and very well thought out setup I will be referring to a lot as I travel weekly and am planning fo set up a large planted discus tank later this year!

Thanks, Bob

Comment on New Tropica plants by admin

admin — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 03:47:17 +0000

After I posted this stuff with my iPhone, I got to another pc where I could edit the post a bit. So in the interest of full disclosure, I did re-arrange the order of the pics. Though there is no way I can improve them until I get a new PC. Sorry.

Comment on Fish happy. Plants growing back slowly… but healthy! by Orlando

Orlando — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 02:00:44 +0000

I love your tank Steve!

When ever I need inspiration to build a new tank, I read this.
Tanks you for posting all of your incredible skills.

Best Regards, Orlando

Comment on Holey Moley! by scolley

scolley — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 23:30:26 +0000

In the interest of full disclosure, I did go back and get a picture - up close - of the tank at the time I first posted this. You can see the GDA on the glass. It’s thick! And also that horrible green algae that is attacking my sand. Wow! It’s enough to discourage someone…