ADA Mini-S: Riven Tanglewood

[Ugly Genius]

Will do, @marko. Just keep an eye on this thread and when you hear me mention a trim, remind me, whuddya?

cl, it's Blepharostoma Trichoph. (I'll probably call it BT moss.) The jury's still out on this one. I like how it's growing in my tank, but didn't care for the way it was growing at AFA. At AFA it was growing long and stringy. Like Zipper Moss, only shorter. In a few weeks, after it's grown out more, I'll write out my observations like I did for "Pot Moss".

Thanks, zero!

ddtran, it is a creepy game. Hella good once you get into it, though. I hated it the first time I played.

Thanks, cint. (I got your PM and will reply.)

One of my mosses almost died. The Notocyphus Lutescens, the plant in the front-center of the photo cl quoted, almost succumbed to an accidental Excel OD. It's pulling through with new growth after a significant portion browned. I'm pretty sure it'll pull through fine. No more Excel dosing for me, though.

You just know you've got some fresh mosses going on
when the two most "common" ones are Mini Pellia and Flame Moss.

[CL]

Hey UG! How's the tank?

[hyphination]

Any updates? Oh and do you still have that link for the Ott-lites?

[kcirtappatrick]

Originally Posted by hyphination

Any updates? Oh and do you still have that link for the Ott-lites?

I tried to order some Ott-Lites a while back. The lights alone were pretty cheap. Great deal right?! However, Once the shipping and handling costs came into play it, turned out a bit expensive. I think the shipping cost a little more than the lights. But, they look so nice! I was still debating on getting them.

-Pat

[legomaniac89]

Hey UG! Don't tell me we lost you to that new TV you got? It's been 3 weeks since any new pictures of Riven...

[Ugly Genius]

It wasn't just the new HDTV that I got that kept me away. The past two weeks sucked.
Hella sucked.
Nothing worth going into right here, but suffice it to say, I'm glad it's all over. ("It" being all the crap that sucked; but like I said, that's all over and here I am and let's get to the reason you're reading this post in the first place.)

The tank's done virtually nothing in the intervening three weeks. Everything's still growing and doing well, just very, very slowly.
I pretty much ignored all my tanks for the past three weeks as, like I said (twice), the past two sucked. I did water changes here and there and scraped algae when I felt I had to, but pretty much all of my tanks were on cruise control as I took care of -- let's just call it -- business.

Usually, I'd offer some insight into the growth characteristics of a given moss, fissiden, or liverwort, but I got none. Been a bad dad to this tank and haven't watched it at all.

All I can say is that today was the first day that I ever dosed Green Brighty Special Lights and virtually every plant in here grew noticeably between the time I left for work at 7:30 and returned at 5:00.

Poor kids were probably starving.

BTW, Aqua Soil Powder sucks in comparison to the normal kind when it comes to nutrients contained within.

Wish I had more to give you after what for me is an eternal absence, but I'm out of shape in the planted tank game and you're going to have to give me time to find my legs again.

On an unrelated note, HDTV is so over-rated.
Take video games for instance. Back in 2001 I was playing Quake III with high details at 1600x1200 at eighty frames per second on my gaming PC. So when I fired up Unreal Tournament III on the Xbox 360 at 1920x1080 on the new set, I was left wanting. Sure the textures are nice, but the resolution is not all that much better than what I was able to get from my lowly GeForce3 Ti500 video card way back in the day. (If I remember correctly, the whole machine was powered by 512 MB of RAM and an AMD 1 GHz T-bird. I might be mistaken on all this, though.)
And don't get me started on TV. Most of the channels look worse! And the ones that are at 1080p afford little except to show that movie stars have bad skin up close.

One cool thing I learned about myself is that I am fresh.
Here's why:
I'm setting up the TV and I look in back and see florescent light pouring out. I think to myself that the color looked 6,500k. Well, after reading the manual, I see that one of the backlight colors is indeed 6,500k. (The other colors are 9300K and 11000K, if you're interested.)

Anyway, I'm going to get back to my TV. Sorry for the long absence. And I'll get back to all the PMs I've not gotten back to soon!

[jose faria]

Hi UG,
Sometimes being away from our tanks, just makes us more aware of the beauty of that small piece of glass.
It's like a cycle and it never ends, because we always find a new thing to love in our tanks.

[icepotato89]

why did you use aqua soil in a tank with no rooted plants?

[mizu-chan]

UG, even though you say you've been neglectful I love this tank regardless. I love the piece of wood you have in there; it seems very serene. Sorry you've been having a tough time. Hope things get better for you! (:

[trigun808]

i fully agree with mizu, i love this peace of wood!
even if u say u neglected it, it doesnt show it

[CL]

C'mon UG! I hope everything is okay

[Craigthor]

Originally Posted by clwatkins10

C'mon UG! I hope everything is okay

I agree!

[ldk59]

Last update from UG was 08-20-2009, 10:28 PM

I think we need an update Ugly

[CL]

Originally Posted by ldk59

Last update from UG was 08-20-2009, 10:28 PM

I think we need an update Ugly

even if it is an ugly update

[oldpunk78]

anyone know what happened with ugly? hope all is well...