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Obviously the people posting in this thread have never seen any guro.

Nuke it. Nuke it from orbit.


PS Japan, I really do love you. But sometimes you scare the fuck out of me.

Teh fishies.

So my parents finally got sick of the 55 gallon tank taking up one of their spare rooms and told me to get rid of it Or Else, heh. Not having much room I set a ten gallon: Penguin 100 filter (over the back, up to 20 gallons w/ a biowheel, niiiice), Macro-Glo light (25 watts, giving me 2.5 watts per gallon, not ideal, but not as fugly as putting two lighting fixtures on the lid), and a CO2 infection unit I had bought a year or two ago on sale. No heater because my room stays fairly warm, but if I need one I'll get it. Depends on how big the daily temp swings are. I dug a couple of mountainous-looking rocks out of Dad's rock piles for decoration.

I rescued all the surviving plants, mostly some small redish swords, but there's this one big onion-looking thing with looong green leaves, and some stuff that looks like sea grass, as well as one lone piece of Java fern. Enough to really pack the tank. The substrait is a combinaition of regular aquarium gravel and something for aquatic plants.

The fish left in the 55 were the hardy, don't need to be fed ever, survivors. (really, with enough plants, they didn't need to be fed. Enough microscopic bugs grow in a planted tank that the fish had enough food). One Giant Danio, one Black Skirt Tetra, another tetra that looks like a Glo-lite without the Glo, and some sort of brown pleco. The pleco was a surprise, I had NO idea he had survived. For those of you keeping track at home this means that the tank is now at, and possibly passed, it's limit. I transferred a bunch of water from the old tank to the new to give it a good dose of bacteria so we can shorten or skip the nitrogen cycle.

My cat finds this all tremendously entertaining.

Pictures as soon as I can figure out how to transfer them from my camera to my computer.

Teh fishies.

So my parents finally got sick of the 55 gallon tank taking up one of their spare rooms and told me to get rid of it Or Else, heh. Not having much room I set a ten gallon: Penguin 100 filter (over the back, up to 20 gallons w/ a biowheel, niiiice), Macro-Glo light (25 watts, giving me 2.5 watts per gallon, not ideal, but not as fugly as putting two lighting fixtures on the lid), and a CO2 infection unit I had bought a year or two ago on sale. No heater because my room stays fairly warm, but if I need one I'll get it. Depends on how big the daily temp swings are. I dug a couple of mountainous-looking rocks out of Dad's rock piles for decoration.

I rescued all the surviving plants, mostly some small redish swords, but there's this one big onion-looking thing with looong green leaves, and some stuff that looks like sea grass, as well as one lone piece of Java fern. Enough to really pack the tank. The substrait is a combination of regular aquarium gravel and something for aquatic plants.

The fish left in the 55 were the hardy, don't need to be fed ever, survivors. (really, with enough plants, they didn't need to be fed. Enough microscopic bugs grow in a planted tank that the fish had enough food). One Giant Danio, one Black Skirt Tetra, another tetra that looks like a Glo-lite without the Glo, and some sort of brown pleco. The pleco was a surprise, I had NO idea he had survived. For those of you keeping track at home this means that the tank is now at, and possibly passed, its limit. I transferred a bunch of water from the old tank to the new to give it a good dose of bacteria so we can shorten or skip the nitrogen cycle.

My cat finds this all tremendously entertaining.

Pictures as soon as I can figure out how to transfer them from my camera to my computer.

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I used my Android.





The water's still a bit cloudy from suspended debris that I hadn't been able to rinse out of the substait. Click to embiggen.

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The water's still a bit cloudy from suspended particles. Click to embiggen.