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Old 04-26-2006, 09:46 AM   #16 (permalink)
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GW = Greenwater algae. It's a unicellular algae that is suspended in the water coulmn and makes the water looks hazey with a green tint. It can be eliminated with a UV sterilizer, a diatom filter or a lot of daphina.

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Old 04-26-2006, 07:51 PM   #17 (permalink)
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theres no gw, its just my camra that doesnt focus
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Old 04-26-2006, 09:40 PM   #18 (permalink)
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That's a nice thank you got there, fellow vancouverian.
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Old 04-26-2006, 09:57 PM   #19 (permalink)
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sNApple,

What T5's are those? I just put a new screw-in GE CF in my little tank, and all of my pictures look green like yours, but in person, there is no green tint. My other tanks are around 6500K color and show no green in the pictures.
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Old 04-27-2006, 08:44 PM   #20 (permalink)
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What T5's are those? I just put a new screw-in GE CF in my little tank, and all of my pictures look green like yours, but in person, there is no green tint. My other tanks are around 6500K color and show no green in the pictures.
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Old 04-28-2006, 11:20 AM   #21 (permalink)
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i changed my normal black gravel to eco complete today and kept all 50 fish in the tank while i did it, and took pics


just some of the plants on the my bed. all that ricca was just floating


more ricca on slate, and swords


only the wood and aromatica left


woody


tree out, a light syphon before taking out the gravel, also took off canopy and put shitty light on, also put a ac500 on


half done, fish doing fine


all gone, now for eco complete, i sliced it open in the water for minimal cloudyness and slowly poured it out


zapped straped the syhphon so it wouldnt stir up the gravel at the bottom


all new tied ricca in, all aromatica planted and wood in all fish doing fine


i started this at 4 pm, while doing this i watched 2 hockey games and just finished at 2:30am :? in the end it was worth it, planting in the normal gravel was so hard, you needed like 3" if you didnt want it to uproot. Im surpirsed i was able to use like 3-5mm to hold down plants. RIP 3 ghost shrimp


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Old 04-28-2006, 10:23 PM   #22 (permalink)
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12 hours later



and a bathtub full of plants which are up for trade!

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Old 04-29-2006, 03:10 AM   #23 (permalink)
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Not to be mean but why would you put your plants on your bed? Is your house really that small?
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Not to be mean but why would you put your plants on your bed? Is your house really that small?
dont worry about it

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Old 04-30-2006, 07:50 PM   #25 (permalink)
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Not to be mean but why would you put your plants on your bed? Is your house really that small?
i know like omg,ick.j/k.i have cat hair all over my bed right now.your tank looks so far so good.good job,bet your back hurts .
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may 5th -



i want to add some cherrys but im scared my rams will eat them
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Old 05-06-2006, 03:01 AM   #27 (permalink)
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Now THAT is going to be one incredible carpet. You must have a very large amount of patience! The knot of wood is awesome as well.

I don't quite understand the comment about putting plants on your bed. They're on a towel, and it's right at arm length... Sounds like a good spot to me.


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Loved the wood. Amazing tank. I'm also surpriesed you changed it all with the fish in there.
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WOW

and a bathtub full of plants afterwards....

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Old 05-07-2006, 08:28 AM   #30 (permalink)
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Loved the wood. Amazing tank. I'm also surpriesed you changed it all with the fish in there.
i reallllly didnt want too but i made a post in this thread and nobody answered and i didnt have a tank set up with cycled water. Sooo i hoped for the best and it worked for me!, i didnt loose anything. I thought id take pics as i went along in case other people were thinking a substrate change and didnt have a spare tank for the fishies. It was one of the best things ive done for my planted tank, normal gravel aint got shit on eco complete.
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