Recent content by Rexenator

Took a quick video of my tank today.  Let me know what you think.  

Added some fish today, 3 pearl gourami and a spotted orange seam pleco:       I also have my automatic dosing pumps working.  Here's what they look like in the cabinet:     They are working great.  I have the raspberry pi programmed up so I can input how much to dose (in mL), as well as the...

Thought I'd take the time to post so e pictures of the fish I've added. The yoyo loaches are huge now, probably 2.5 inches (when got them the largest one was 1"). They are also much more brave now, and come out quite a bit: Also, I've added a school of 10 cardinal tetra. The ones I bought...

Well I finished late last night.  Separating the dwarf hair grass and planting it took a lot longer than I thought.  I actually overestimated how much could reasonably fit into a 55 gallon tank, so I ended up with extra plants for my other tanks =)  Here's how it came out:     I am running my...

Plants arrived today.  All in all I have:   -Java moss attached to driftwood -1 Anubis barteri attached to driftwood -A ton of dwarf hairgrass -2 moss balls -3 Amazon Swords -1 Kleiner bar -1 Banana plant -A bunch of cabomba purple -1 Java fern -1 Compact Amazon Sword   I'll be spending the next...

I've a pH meter here, TDS meter is on the way.  I'll take a look at my dissolved solids once it gets here.  My pH here is consistently 8.3, which is typically too high for these fish.  I was hoping to lower the KH enough that the water would have fewer buffering agents, so the driftwood in my...

I plan on adding a school of cardinal tetra to my 55 gallon planted tank. Everywhere I've been shows that they require soft water, low KH, to thrive. Our water here is ridiculously hard. I just tested it with an API KH kit and it takes 19 drops to change the color from blue to yellow. The...

Mine is a 48" Dutch Planted (6300k) with the 75 degree lense.  The fixture itself is really small.  The first picture is a side view of it on top of my 55 gallon.  Second picture is a front view (light is dimmed to 20%).  I also bought the dimmer, which is just a pretty basic knob that goes from...