Galen's 20 Long tank
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Yes cleared up well...nice Cave...is it a real skull or a clay model...what is it (Looks like a Sabre Tooth Tiger to me :0)
Its a very rich looking coloured sand, should hide the mess nicely...white sand can be a ****** to keep clean....
hi- i love the pic of your animals! they are magnificent! its a resin skull that i have had in my aquariums for years! it is has lost no deatil in all that time, after scrubbing hard with a toothbrush even to remove green algae! the price is 5 bucks at petsmart as a jaguar skull
http://www.petsmart.com/global/product_detail.jsp?PRODUCT%3C%3Eprd_id=845524441806885&FOLDER%3C%3Efolder_id=2534374302031301&ASSORTMENT%3C%3East_id=2534374302023693&bmUID=1179627223707&itemNo=11&In=Fish&N=2031301&Ne=2
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hi- yes, i plan on doing some major cleanup tomorrow too. i look forward to it alot! ill post pics and an updatre too!
well, here's today's update.
after siuphoning the sandbed a few times and churining up clouds of dust from the substrate, i decided tofloow the old maxim of divide and conquer. so i took to scoopfulls of sand and put them in a bucket. there i filled it with a some water and kneaded the sand, trying to work out the dust. i would work the sand for amybe a few minutes and then pitch the water and dust, then fill the bucket and repeat. ten rinses later the sand was still giving me the same dust clouds as before. so i just thought f*** this and pitched the sand out. i managed to save most of the laterite using a some cheesescloth as buckets ofm sand were emptied. i went to the lfs and bought 25 pounds of "aztec gold" color aquarium gravel made by dowell. i then took some water from the other twenty gallon tank, about 8-10 gallons worth,a nd put it in with some substrate from the ten gallon tank this was supposed to update. with the sponge filter running and a filter that was fully seeded before on the previous tank running, the cycle should be next to nothing. i added a common pleco, the tilapia, 1 filament barb, and 1 small red tail shark. they love the long swimming space!
after siuphoning the sandbed a few times and churining up clouds of dust from the substrate, i decided tofloow the old maxim of divide and conquer. so i took to scoopfulls of sand and put them in a bucket. there i filled it with a some water and kneaded the sand, trying to work out the dust. i would work the sand for amybe a few minutes and then pitch the water and dust, then fill the bucket and repeat. ten rinses later the sand was still giving me the same dust clouds as before. so i just thought f*** this and pitched the sand out. i managed to save most of the laterite using a some cheesescloth as buckets ofm sand were emptied. i went to the lfs and bought 25 pounds of "aztec gold" color aquarium gravel made by dowell. i then took some water from the other twenty gallon tank, about 8-10 gallons worth,a nd put it in with some substrate from the ten gallon tank this was supposed to update. with the sponge filter running and a filter that was fully seeded before on the previous tank running, the cycle should be next to nothing. i added a common pleco, the tilapia, 1 filament barb, and 1 small red tail shark. they love the long swimming space!
thank you very much. i took out the piece of wood that was in there i thought it was too big and it seemed the fish had trouble maneuvering around it. they like to swim in the open space and the wood kinda was like a roadblock on the autobahn! anyway, all is going pretty good. the stand is really sturdy. i bet i could put up to a 55 on this sort of stand with no problems at all.
yes, it's the stufff they don't tell you in all these forums online where they say play sand is great for aquariums and such. now i know why they abbrevaite the details on cleaning the stuff- they don't want to look like really did struggle- it hurts the image or soemthing i guess. either way, perhaps this thread will help someone elese out there who will be using play sand as recommended by theese "experts". hopefully, they won't find out the hard way.
