The Indecisive Journal Of Trod's 5 Footer

[seffieuk]

Oh my goodness - that is fantastic

Big sis x

 

[scott133]

hi trod

when the coating from the die off is removed the ammonia WILL go down unless if that is still there it will take a long time for the ammonia to come down to that 0ppm so you can take the rock and scrub it will fresh salted ro water and once you have done that do another water change and aquascape you rocks nicely

and get well soon

regards scott

 

[Trod]

Day 15

Right again Scott,
Mr Trod kindly did my 25% water change today and a bit more syphoning, and tested the ammonia, which has gone down
So I thought, I'd get him to test for nitrite and nitrate too. We have movement

Ammonia 1
Nitrite 2
Nitrate 25 (all salifert tests)

So when I'm mobile again, I'll take your advice Scott and give the rock a good clean, then try a bit of aquascaping

 

[Trod]

Day 16

Nothing happening today, as Mr Trod has been helping Mr Seffie get all the furniture and seffie's new tank back into her lounge

But I have seen life in my tank a little red feather duster sorry no pictures though as everytime I shuffle towards it, it hides

Background came today, now I have to decide on black or blue, I'm edging towards black as it seems to hide all the equipement, which just happens to be black!!!

 

[bagu]

Day 16

Nothing happening today, as Mr Trod has been helping Mr Seffie get all the furniture and seffie's new tank back into her lounge

But I have seen life in my tank a little red feather duster sorry no pictures though as everytime I shuffle towards it, it hides

Background came today, now I have to decide on black or blue, I'm edging towards black as it seems to hide all the equipement, which just happens to be black!!!

I say black =]

 

[seffieuk]

Thank you for letting mr Trod come out to play........................tank is now in situ funny, it doesn't look sooo big now.

Signs of life......woo hoo

Blue or black - difficult one, blue looks lovely when really clean but black hides the equipment better, so I vote black unless you are going to spend ages scraping the back

Big Sis x

 

[Trod]

Day 17

Black it is then

25% water change done, (Mr Trod getting slightly fed up!!! )

Ammonia 0.5
Nitrite 4 whistle: )
Nitrate 100 (cough cough )

I'm happy with that

 

[Ehudd]

Day 17

Black it is then

25% water change done, (Mr Trod getting slightly fed up!!! )

Ammonia 0.5
Nitrite 4 whistle: )
Nitrate 100 (cough cough )

I'm happy with that

nice, looks like the cycle is going good then.

 

[seffieuk]

Moving on nicely -

Big Sis x

 

[scott133]

so have you got rid of most the die off then or is most still there and if your running the cannister filter give them a good clean as a lot of the die of will be stuck to the filter pads also and is the protine skimmer on now and only a couple of weeks left and youll have fish in there

 

[Ehudd]

Trod, here is some inspiration for you

 

[bagu]

Trod, here is some inspiration for you

thats beautiful

 

[seffieuk]

Wow, she is going to love that

Seffie x

 

[bagu]

do you think she will try and get a pair?

 

[Trod]

Oh WOW thanks Ehudd, that is beautifull

No Scott. I've now taken external filter off and letting LR do its stuff I've got most of the die off, off now, but I'm still taking your advice about taking it out and giving it a scrub Protein skimmer is on 24/7 and doing a mighty fine job

I've been rather busy with seffie's tank over the weekend and was out all day sunday so I haven't done a lot with tank.

I've bought some TMC coral sand which I will add this week when I do clean up and aqauscaping. Not done any tests either hoping to get some done this afternoon, will up date then

No Pairing Bagu, sorry. I'm planning to get one Pterois Antennata and a Dendrochirus zebra but to be honest, if I see a baby Volitan I just might be tempted
I'm also looking at adding a foxface rabbit fish and may be, a big may be a box fish but I have got to do a lot more research on that before any decision to made