Tino D'Voe's 25g progress pics

Thanks for the compliment. I used to have the CO2 running 24/7 fearing that I might have too much of a pH change. I ended up doing some serious harm to a SAE when I did a water change right before the lights went out. I woke up to find all the smaller fish ok but the 3 larger SAE's that I used to have were gasping for air at the surface, one of them was almost dead but still breathing. When I got home from work 2 were swimming around like nothing happened, one had gone completely white from the dorsal fin to almost the tail.

I think what happened was the extra CO2 in the tap water was way too much once the lights went out. None of the smaller fish were affected because of their mass/o2 requirements but the larger SAE's were in trouble. The tissue looked like it had been completely killed off by the o2 loss and it was struggling to swim around. I gave the poor SAE a vodka dip that put an end to that. Since then I've been running the CO2 reactor on the same timer as the light. So far, the pH has barely changed throughout the night so it by far is a safer way to go if you're using a pressurized system. I traded in the larger SAE's for 4 young ones that you can see in the tank.

one week later...

here's the progress after one week. As you can see the algae has died off quite nicely :smile: Now I have to cut some back before the glosso starts losing too much light.

I'll post some more in a week or two.