#140l project

[ulkoillafish]

The tank today I’m not really feeling the way Aquatan is making it yellow , with some help from alder cones. But I’m dead set using humic stuff. (Although I’m not too sure Aquatan can be seen as such - I’d think humic acids are, you know, acidic. But they claim it’s not altering water parameters so I’m a bit suspicious) Anyway, things could’ve gone wors

#fishblr #140L project

[wionews]

Soon, government to announce 10 more smart cities 

The central government is soon to announce 10 more cities that will be funded under the flagship 'Smart City Mission'

"The Smart Cities Mission is progressing at a brisk pace. Ninety cities have been selected so far. The selection of 10 more cities will be announced shortly," Puri, the Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Housing and Urban Affairs, said at an event.

MoS H&UA @HardeepSPuri at the @ficci_india Smart Cities Summit 2018 in #NewDelhi http://pic.twitter.com/ki2MAAmvkD

— Smart Cities Mission (@SmartCities_HUA) January 16, 2018

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The government has already announced 90 cities that will be covered under the scheme initiated by the housing and urban affairs ministry.

Each city is proposed to get Rs 500 crore as central assistance for the implementation of various projects under the scheme. 

Smart Cities set new benchmark. One of the fastest project implementation at this scale & geographic spread. In 2.5 yrs, a short span in urban development life-cycle, projects worth 140L Cr identified & worth more 20K Cr either under implementation or completed. http://pic.twitter.com/kDL4CgWkcC

— Hardeep Singh Puri (@HardeepSPuri) January 16, 2018

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There were about 3,000 projects worth Rs 1,40,000 crore at various stages of implementation under the scheme, Puri noted. 

(With inputs from PTI)

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[ulkoillafish]

We’ve had some temperatures too high for my fish and I had to limit the light to avoid excessive overheating of the tank but everyone is doing good. The “scape” is a mess though, 3 cory babies and then this one, a surprise baby who indeed is a honey gourami have stopped me from doing much decorative stuff.

The cories are now big enough to run with the rest of the gang but I decided I’ll let this one grow a bit before I go in and manage the plants with more vigour

#140L project #honey gourami #fish keeping #fresh water tank #fishblr

[ulkoillafish]

Now - this out of focus, pixel sized (and clearly incredibly stupid) fish must be a young honey gourami. Because sure as hell it isn’t a young cory cat, and I doubt it can be a young cardinal tetra. As there are the options...

#140L project #honey gourami #honey gourami fry #fishblr

[ulkoillafish]

Honey gourami fry is small

Drives me crazy that I can’t hack down the surface plants if I even want to give these little dudes and dudettes a change

#fishblr #honey gourami #140l project

[ulkoillafish]

A LOT has happened since the last aquarium post.

We had to move. Twice. The first apartment had moisture damage, which was only found after I started to wonder why sewer smell never went away, and found a patch of black mold on a wall.

Hence, I moved the aquarium twice.

It was not but everyone made it. I even found a baby cory, so tiny I hadn’t noticed it at all until I had only sand left. She - I belive it’s a she - made it and is getting so big it’s difficult to tell her apart from others.

The baby cory also has a bunch of younger sisters and brothers. I re-organized some stuff in the tank and it seems like the babies now have better chance to hide until they get big enough not be eaten.

I have a new job. I’m still adjusting to it but now I have some idea on what’s happening in it.

On a sad news, one of my honey gouramis, Kultu, got sick and I had to put her down just yesterday :( I’m hoping some of they fry will make it, as the tank has a nice amount of honey gourami fry hiding amongst the floating plants. The babies are the reason I’ve not cleaned algae from the glass in almost a month (usually I scrape it every other week or so), so I won’t be adding any pics of the tank :,D

#fishblr #140L project

[ulkoillafish]

My surprise honey gourami baby has died :,( I have no idea what happened. One day I just realized I hadn’t seen them for a couple of days and couldn't find them anywhere. It’s been such a long time I must admit defeat.

I’m really bummed by this

#fishblr #140L project #tw: animal death

[ulkoillafish]

140 L project tank is getting there.

It’s still missing... something? 

#140L project #fishblr #planted tank

[ulkoillafish]

YES! YES! YES!

Finally!

An assassin snail baby!

(Not an easy one to spot when they aren’t moving but see north from the algae control crew xD)

I’m hoping I’ll get a population of assassin snails in my tank. Some food gets stuck in the floating plants and feeds the population of pest snails. It’s not a big population but I don’t precisely love the look of ramshorn and bladder snails, so I’d prefer if there were more assassins to eat them.

Since the rescape the bladder snail population has actually gone down quite a bite, but you don’t have to search for long to find an ramshorn...

#fishblr #140L project #assassin snail #i've found empty assassin snail shells #so i suspected the water is too soft and acidic to them #but there is still hope

[ulkoillafish]

The EI dosing in the project tank is going just fine. The plants are looking better. The algae is perhaps growing a tad faster too, but in short, not much to report.

But I recently dreamed that my tank turned blue.

I (like, in reality) ran out of the normal white sugar (refined sugar?) and had to use the sticky brown and more expensive stuff to make the gel for diy-CO2. It foamed like you wouldn't believe so when I went to sleep, I thought about the CO2 and if I’ll have to clean the valves if the foam goes into the piping.

It hasn’t (yet) but somehow my sleeping brain figured that the drop checker was blue because there was no CO2 - no no no, not the drop checker, it’s fine, it the whole tank that’s blue! And the tank is on a rack! The rack is standing in a ditch, oh nooooo one of  the legs is sinking... it’s tilting... it’s falling... yeah it crashed. Into the muddy ditch.

But no worries, no worries, there is enough water to for the fish to live for a while! I’ll just have to collect them! There are my cories, the cardinal tetras, @parotcardsroxy ‘s jpeg the betta... What’s that doing in here? Who cares, better fish the poor guy out!

More bettas! How am I going to store them all? Ha! Every other betta goes into a plastic bag, every other goes in a coffee cup! Then I can put them in a row and they won’t see each other! Mwahaha I’m a genius

...

So, how are the fishes of your sleeping brain doing?

#140L project #estimative index dosing #EI dosing #fishblr #aquarium dreams

[ulkoillafish]

140 L project tank improvement Step 1: teach some manners to Amazonian frogbit (a.k.a ulkoilla made a plant separator)

Amazonian frogbit is a nice plant in many ways. Easy to grow. Easy to thin out. Creates nice shade and shelter to fish, labyrinth fish like it etc etc

On the other hand, the roots can grow long and create a messy look I want to avoid. It blocks light. My other plants aren’t doing good, thanks to it eating all light. This is the tank & tanks surface, the separator just put at use

I was actually surprised how well it hides. In the tank pic below you can see it at left corner, but it really looks more like a vallisneria leaf than the hideous piece of plastic it is.

(At the time of posting, I’ve had this a bit longer than a week. It’s still functioning as it should and such but if/when I have to replace it, I’ll be making an extremely thin separator.

Why?

Because then I could allow a couple runners out of the separator. They’d hide the plastic better.)

I’ve previously attempted to control the growth by controlling where I allowed the runners go. It wasn’t very effective method, so perhaps it would go better if I cut the runners and contained the plant.

A round air pipe separator? Is my tank round? No, I don’t want round. My tank isn’t round. I want to have a thin wall of roots where the fish can hide and feel safe.

The first attempt to shape was steel wire inside air hose. But it sunk.

It could be of interest in shaping and submerging air hose, but it clearly wasn’t a way to go with this task… So I went for the good old drinking straw route and made approximately the same shape using pale green straws.

The joints are not sealed in any way and it’s free floating for now – I’m hoping the filter and bubblers will keep it roughly where I want it.  I hope I won’t have to clip it in on in any way… The tank is placed under a plant rack so fiddling with suction cups or such is bit of an irritation and I’d like to avoid to do so in every WC.

So far so good.

#aquascaping #fish keeping #fishblr #aquarium #plant separator #amazonian frogbit #140L project

[ulkoillafish]

I scrolled trough old pics and found this - my Project Tank (140 L / 37 gal) before. This was about 6-9 months ago. I was actually quite happy with this layout. I thought that after the plant would grow in, it’d be a nice setting. Then my smaller tank started leaking and I put a lot plants and whatnot in here. The red glow is an unrelated plant light nearby, I don’t know why it shows so strong in every photo.

#fishblr #aquarium #aquascaping #fish keeping #140L project #now it's disaster #but i liked this

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140 L project tank improvement Step 5.2: introduce CO2 ladder (a.k.a. good riddance, pantyhose!)

I… This is difficult to explain. But I this other hobby where I needed rock glue. I would have liked the Impa stuff, but shipping costs were just ridiculous, so, I thought, ordering Reef Construct would actually be me saving money in postal fees.

While at it, I ordered a GH test and a CO2 ladder, Dennerle’s Flipper. Forgot to order a drop checker. Rats.

The flipper works nicely. The bubbles get visibly smaller etcetera etcetera.  It’s fun to watch. When I was a child, I had a novelty key chain thing (a fob? I don’t know and can’t find the word) that had two liquids in it, a clear liquid and a heavier blue liquid. When turned upside down, the blue liquid formed small drops that travelled down, one by one, via a ladder. I can say I loved watching the thing.

The CO2 flipper has the same pleasantness in it. I think I’ve watched it more than I’ve watched the fish, the past few weeks I’ve had it xD

There are two issues I didn’t take account for, though. The first one is accumulation of debris. I placed the flipper next to the input of the filter because I didn’t want it getting outside light. Well, it collects debris. I didn’t expect I’d have to actively clean it every now and then.

The other issue is snails. Those nasty buggers are small enough to go in, where they’ll stop the bubbles from moving on occasion. As my CO2 system is sugar and yest (I now run 4 parellel bottles, the oldest is replaced weekly), this isn’t such a major problem, but if I had a pressurized system, it might be a different story.

The green water hasn’t come back after I started to add potassium. Don’t know if it was the potassium or the light or the combination, but things are looking relatively nice.

#140l project #fishblr #planted tank #fresh water aquarium #diy CO2

[ulkoillafish]

140 L project tank improvement: Revenge of the CO2!

It started green water. Of course it had to do so two days before I’ll travel so that I’ll be worrying about the fish.

The CO2 is now off, I’ve done a couple extra WC to limit ferts the green goo has to eat. and the light are ofc out. I also added a bit aeration just in case. I’ve seen no signs of fish distress and tbh the situation isn’t that bad. It just... Why does it have to happen when I’m not there to oversee that things won’t get out of hand? 

#green water #fish keeping #fishblr #140L project #i knew i'd run into some problem #i'm just happy it's not bacterial #I worried about it being yeast from the CO2

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140 L project tank improvement Step 3: purchase more lightning power (a.k.a ulkoilla flirts with algae infestation)

The project tank is/was really dark. The pics don’t show it properly, but that’s only because my smart phone is smart and when I tell it where to focus, it also figures out a good-looking light balance. In general, I’m a big fan of this function but it’s not great for showing the difference in light.

I switched that function off (and made a complete mess of the camera settings in the process), but this is more or less the tank before (1 fluorescent tube) and after (2 fluorescent tubes). It’s not a perfect pic, still too much brightness in it in comparison with the reality, imho, but it’s as close as I could get.

Yes – they are fluorescent tubes. It’s year 2021 and actually ordered a new T8 fluorescent tube lamp. I considered LED lights for a long time, but...

...I couldn’t find any that were even remotely reasonably priced AND had some information about spectrum and such AND were of good size. The tank is only ~95 cm (~37 inches) wide so I didn’t think it would’ve been an issue, but it turned out to be.

I did consider things like efficiency and electricity consumption, but... meh. I can by ease think up many situations where those are of interest, but mine wasn’t one on those. My apartment has to be heated most of the year, and my tank is being heated inside my heated apartment. So, how much do I really care if some of the heating is done by the heat generated by the lamp? Not much, I tellz ya, not much.

So, fluorescent tubes it was.

The tubes I use are Hagen’s. I haven’t tested many producers so this isn’t a recommendation, but there is two things I like in Hagen tubes: I can purchase them locally with ease (although this may change in near future and ofc may not be true for You), and Hagen gives out the information about the spectrum, kelvins and such.

As we know, not all light is equally good at for plants. The “good” peaks are in red and blue light area, so that’s what I want to see emphasized in my aquarium light. And I don’t want to guess wtf my lamp is giving out, as it seemed to be with the reasonably priced LEDs.

Blue and red, but low kelvins? Great, there is Flora-Glo T8 (it’s the tube lit in my “1 fluorescent tube” pic). More blue spectrum with some yellow light added in and high kelvins? Power-Glo T8 (the second tube, combined with the Flora-Glo at the lower pic). A full-spectrum with high emphasis on green and yellow? There’s tubes for that. And they are easy to mix and match.

If my mix and match (Flora-Glo and Power Glo) is at all a smart, that’s another question... It isn’t one suggested by the manufacturer so we shall see how terrible algae infestation I’m going to get. I thought my match would be a good match because of reasonably good red and blue presence with the total emphasis on blue, and Flora-Glo has an additional small yellow with a high-ish green peak, while Power-Glo has additional yellow with a small green peak.

So, in in my mind this summed up to a reasonable viewing light (enough different wave lengths for viewing, cool enough not to have a tint of piss and enough medium wave lengths to avoid the pot farm purple), while the blue and red could feed my plants.

Buuuut then I found a file in which Hagen recommend which tubes go well together. And I’m sure Hagen knows more of mixing their own lamps than I do, so... It is... It will be...

Algae infestation!

Not signs of that yet, but at the time of posting I’ve had the lamp less than one week and I’m taking it slow with the 2 tubes, in hopes I can avoid the said infestation.

Tbh, the Project Tank looks worse than at the beginning. My plant separator is functioning nicely in the sense it’s containing the frogbit, but the roots are still all over the place. The plastic boxes are for cory babies, and now have their own cardboard parasols, so they don’t get too much light... I even switched the plants, tiger lily and hairgrass, from the back glass to the front glass to maximize the amount of eyesores because the Power-Glo is on such a short time in a day for now and I’d like it if these two made it, so they are here to enjoy the Flora-Glo light.

#fishblr #planted tank #aquarium #aquarium light #any day now #140L project #this is going to be a mess #i'm waiting for algae infestation

[ulkoillafish]

Good by, tank side view! Loved having you, but hell if I’m going to scrape off the algae bound to grow on the glass if and when this light blasts it 12+ hours a day.

The shade is just tin foil and white paper. I glued them together, the foil to make shade pass less light and the paper so that the fish can’t see their reflection in the foil. It stays on with a couple pieces of two-sided tape, so if/when I want it gone, it’s easy to remove. It’s also ugly af, but mind in already in the future, where I have more space, so it’s temporary. 

(If the tank looks like it is not very ergonomic to maintain, that’s only because that tank is not very ergonomic to maintain.)

#fishblr #140L project #temporary??? #that's what I said 10+ years ago when I put a towel on my window #the towel hasn't been removed since #ok I washed it like once or twice #but it's still on the window