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Blade2012
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 Posted: Mon May 28, 2012 8:17 pm Post subject: Re: Making of my 3feet Crystal Clear Tank.. |
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i dont think you can do anything to make this look better......
because YOU CANT IMPROVE UPON PERFECTION.......
and now this is my dream tank.....period....
nice work.....
and can you mail me the cost from scratch......
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akumar
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| Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2012 12:01 pm Post subject: Re: Making of my 3feet Crystal Clear Tank.. |
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| Picture updates are long time due bro.. Really nice setup!!! |
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josyjames
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| Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2012 12:08 pm Post subject: Re: Making of my 3feet Crystal Clear Tank.. |
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| akumar wrote (View Post):
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Picture updates are long time due bro.. Really nice setup!!!
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True.. Will update some pics in the evening. There were lots of changes done to the scape. Would shortly post the pics... |
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ravi_737
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| Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2012 1:50 pm Post subject: Re: Making of my 3feet Crystal Clear Tank.. |
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Dont know I missed this thread all this while...
Thats a impressive tank Shelly  !!!! and great DIY stuff.
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josyjames
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| Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2012 2:18 pm Post subject: Re: Making of my 3feet Crystal Clear Tank.. |
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| ravi_737 wrote (View Post):
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Dont know I missed this thread all this while...
Thats a impressive tank Shelly !!!! and great DIY stuff.
Regards,
Ravi
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Thanks Ravi  |
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Binesh
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| Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2012 2:57 pm Post subject: Re: Making of my 3feet Crystal Clear Tank.. |
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| josyjames wrote (View Post):
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@ hnabhi,
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hi shelly..
i see that you use acrylic for most of your DIY , how and what do you use to cut the acrylic with precision and finish
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Yes. Because they are strong. I cut and make the finish myself.
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I guess Ricky wanted to know the tool that you use to cut and then finish the acrylic
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planter
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| Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2012 11:41 am Post subject: Re: Making of my 3feet Crystal Clear Tank.. |
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Thuds
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| Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2012 11:57 am Post subject: Re: Making of my 3feet Crystal Clear Tank.. |
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Shelly,
We are all waiting for the picture of your tank.
Thuds |
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techikhan
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| Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2012 12:24 pm Post subject: Re: Making of my 3feet Crystal Clear Tank.. |
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| +1 with Thuds |
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ndnesh
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| Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2012 8:53 pm Post subject: Re: Making of my 3feet Crystal Clear Tank.. |
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Impressive setup!!!
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yajur
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| Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2012 9:14 pm Post subject: Re: Making of my 3feet Crystal Clear Tank.. |
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| Waiting bro |
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victor1061
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| Posted: Sat Aug 11, 2012 10:08 am Post subject: Re: Making of my 3feet Crystal Clear Tank.. |
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| A wonderful setup shelly may I ask where did you buy the bosmani rainbow fishes from and where can I get ADA Amazonia soil and the price. |
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Deba
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| Posted: Sat Aug 11, 2012 10:57 am Post subject: Re: Making of my 3feet Crystal Clear Tank.. |
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Nice built........congrats !!......  |
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cichlidsphere
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| Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2012 6:57 pm Post subject: Re: Making of my 3feet Crystal Clear Tank.. |
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| Nice tank.. waiting for an update |
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josyjames
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| Posted: Mon Aug 20, 2012 11:10 pm Post subject: Re: Making of my 3feet Crystal Clear Tank.. |
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Its been a very long time since I had updated this post.
So the story continues...
The most common term in IAH "ALGAE"!!!
My tank was severely infected with staghorn algae. The algae was mainly on hair grass and the christmas moss tied in the driftwood. When my dosing, co2 and lighting was in proper, I was unable to find out the main reason for this algae.
Tried removing the algae manually most of the times. But it still surfaced. I had trimmed the hair grass thrice from the bottom to get rid of the nuisance algae. But still I was unable to phase out this algae. All my plants where looking healthy. In time, I had to remove all the moss attached to the driftwood as I sprayed H2O2 which made the algae dead. But H2O2 impacted moss too.. In one weeks time, the moss was also dead.
And finally I was able to find the main reason behind this algae growth. Bacopa which was looking healthy when seen from the top was actually rotting at the bottom. And this was giving lots of dead leaves. Once I removed the Bacopa, I was able to control the algae in the tank. In time, the algae was completely phased out from the tank.
After the algae issue, there were lots of changes in my aquarium. I took out all the driftwood from the tank. Since I had to remove the entire moss from the drift wood, the wood was looking empty and I didn't like it. Here are some of the pics of the tank.
HC picking up slowly.
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