2014-6-25

Brandon from Elite Aquarium came yesterday.
Measured PAR with current config of 4 T5HO and 1 Kessil 6500K LED.
At plant bed PAR ranged from 200 at surface to 72 on side without the LED to 140 at bed under LED.

NO3 was high at 80.
KH50
GH 20
Phosphates 5 (0.5 in tapwater)

Will plan to drop the ferts back but the Java fern grows better with high nitrates and postassium.

Crypts doing well regardless.  Glosso and dwarf hair grass not too great for unkiown reasons and there is too much algae growth.  Background Bacopa does well but the other stem plants are doing more poorly than I've ever seen.  No idea why, unless I cut the time down too much on the background plants.

2014-6-8

Have doubled EI rec dosing plus adding Excel to suppress algae.  Did so to try to beat algae.  Also Java fern show holes in leaves that suggest deficiency in nutrient though I can't rule out too much light.  Fish are doing well.

GH 200ppm
KH 60ppm

2014 – 3 – 7 Replaced all bulbs

Replaced all four bulbs today. The two middle bulbs are coral life 6700 K. The back bulb is an Aqua medic plant grow bulb, pink in color.

New pattern.

Old pattern.

The old bulbs are about one year old. The new bulbs are much brighter. This might've been the reason I've had trouble with foreground plant growth.

 No signs of Chilodonella after treatment with Rid-Ich Plus.

 I am using solid fertilizers from Greenleaf aquarium and so far it am satisfied .

2014-3-5

Chilodonella cleared with Rid-Ich plus from 2 fish.

Need to replace light bulbs.

2014-2-3

Cleaned filter.

2014-1/26

DELOS added 1/25.  Flubendazole added last week on Tuesday.  This is 2nd round aimed at eradicating Capillaria from the tank.  Previous efforts have failed to eliminate it.  It recurs after a few months to infect another fish.  This time my smallest blue leopard snakeskin.

Fish are sluggish today as they often are after treatment with these antiparasitic meds.
My experience has been that with the dosing I've used levamasole causes more distress in the fish than does flubendazole.

 

 

Have one of albino coral discus that is blind in right eye in QT tank.  Trying to fatten him up.  He is eating well.  Have treated QT with same antiparasitics as in main tank.

2014-1-8 added delos today