This week have really kicked into full gear with tank maintenance.
So far done the following:
Purchased, premixed and made a dosing schedule (will be following the EI)
Purchased starter plants (should be here by tuesday)
Tweaked the pressurized CO2 bubble rate
Switched the output of eheim to spray bar for more dispersed flow
AND THE BIGGEST IMPROVEMENT was the 60% water change (last large w/c was done a good year or so back)
At the moment the tank is somewhat cloudy due to the GH booster but overall, day by day, its getting back to looking more and more decent (still looks like crap but its better than it was before, algae covered and neglected)
Here is a crappy photo:
Plan for the next few weeks would be:
1- fix/replace 2nd canister filter
2- grow out the new plants ill receive
3- do a complete rescape, keeping the scape simple and clean looking. (maybe even do a restock of fish)
The pace of all this will be slow considering i barely have time to breathe.. but we will get there eventually..
Thanks for looking