New World 90gal Low Tech- a Pictoral Journey!! 11/13 Replanting Begins

[Church]

I hate to admit to being a cynic, but I felt that this was coming... I just had a feeling about that company...

Prices that were just too good to be true... Customer service that was too good to be true.... yeah.

Thanks for taking one for the team, Laura, so we all know who to stay away from.

[rasetsu]

Did BoxLot have guaranteed live delivery? They won't even issue a refund for the DOA's?

[lauraleellbp]

Church- With the customer service I'd received the first time around, I'd had hopes for BoxLot... but oh well. Back to the drawing board looking for a reliable online (preferably Floridian) source for South American tetras...

No, rasetu, no guarantees. Even though about 20 fish died, I'm only out about $10, and still saved money in the long run on the fish that I have remaining, so I'm really not upset.

Thanks mizo-chan

[rasetsu]

Originally Posted by lauraleellbp

No, rasetu, no guarantees. Even though about 20 fish died, I'm only out about $10, and still saved money in the long run on the fish that I have remaining, so I'm really not upset.

That's good. $10 isn't too expensive of a learning experience at least.

[Tex Gal]

Guess what girlfriend?... I was at an LFS yesterday and found pygmy corys. They were selling them as baby corys (hahaha). They were only $1.99. That's the cheapest I've seen them. I got 10 for my plant grow out tank. I have blueberry shrimp and snails in there. Thought they would be a good additions since they won't eat the baby shrimplets I hope to get. They are the cutest little guys!

Is your GW any better?

[lauraleellbp]

What a deal! Can't wait to see pics

Nope, no change in the GW. I haven't tried anything new, though.

I did to a 25% PWC today, just so I could see to check up on all the fish and plants. I had a little sprig of Bacopa float up to the surface yesterday, so I wanted to make sure it wasn't melting on me or something bizarre... but it's doing fine, growing like the weed it is (LOL) and I guess the Cories must have just knocked out a sprig that I'd replanted when I trimmed it a few weeks back. I also trimmed some more Hydrocoytle to let that float. The RCS LOVE hanging out in it!

All the fish are doing great- no losses

[Tex Gal]

Well, keep a log! Maybe you can get into Ripley's Believe it of Not" for the longest GW outbreak! (Think "silver lining"!)

[CL]

isnt green water caused by some kind of little bug thing call euglena? we studied them in biology this year lol, my teacher had to pay for them from a science company. lol, he bought green water

[@marko@]

what do you mean "bug". if you mean tiny organism, yes; if you mean arachnid or insect, no.

as far as i know green water is the bloom of a kind of protist.

[lauraleellbp]

6/28/08 Update

Made the longggg trip to the good LFS up in Ft. Myers, Boardroom Aquatics. I was hoping they had RummyNosed or Colombian tetras, but they were all out of Rummies, and only had 3 Colombian tetras

Sooooo, instead I came home with 25 gorgeous little Pristella tetras and 6 German Blue Rams. They're all chilling now in my 29gal QT tank, I'll try and get some pics tomorrow

[fishman9809]

6?!?!?!?!? wow, i hoep u got 3 m's and 3 f's/ i hear pristella tetras are amazing when they settle in. they school nicely. tell me how they do, i might want some for my 20 long!!!

[Tex Gal]

Congrats on the fish! So much fun to welcome new family members!

[CL]

Originally Posted by lauraleellbp

6/28/08 Update

Made the longggg trip to the good LFS up in Ft. Myers, Boardroom Aquatics. I was hoping they had RummyNosed or Colombian tetras, but they were all out of Rummies, and only had 3 Colombian tetras

Sooooo, instead I came home with 25 gorgeous little Pristella tetras and 6 German Blue Rams. They're all chilling now in my 29gal QT tank, I'll try and get some pics tomorrow

Woah! I was just there today around 1! I saw those blue rams, and would have bought them if I didnt have such a long haul home. They had a TON of cardinals in that one tank with the discus. Thats crazy we almost bumped into each other!
edit* tomorrow I'm going to the Fish Store in Atlanta, should be fun!

[lauraleellbp]

Yeah, those Cardinals were a serious temptation, but I didn't have quite enough in my budget to buy the whole school I want at once, since they were $3 each there. The discus didn't look so happy... I think the temp in that tank was probably too low for them, they were all black. He must have had 500+ Cardinals in that tank, though!

Next time you're down this way PM me- it would be kinda cool to get together!

Fish- yeah, I got 6 figuring worse comes to worst I do have 3 tanks to spread them out... They're pretty small now, so there's time for them to grow in I think before they'll start pairing off.

Tex, thanks- it is! Also, I've been reading that it can easily take more than a month for GW to fade on its own. I'm patient. I think I prefer still to let it self-correct, if at all possible.

[lauraleellbp]

I THINK I may have "crossed the hump" with the GW. I was expecting that the full-on pea soup would have been back by today after my PWC on Friday... but the tank looked the same if not even a little better!

So I did another 20% PWC today. There was tons of dead and dying algae in the sponge prefilters (I went ahead and cleaned them before refilling the tank), so that's also a little more hope for me.

So here's some updated pics of the tank, and also of the new fish in the QT tank (lousy pics as usual, but at least they're pics LOL):

QT tank: