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Week 4 already? Time flys when you're having fun! And what a load of fun it is!
I don't know whats more fun, raising these guys or watching all the other contestants posts. Nothing much changes on my end so I spend more time reading all these other threads, checkin' out the competition.
Well it's a good thing I'm in cruise control with the w/c. This new baby bird of mine is a bit more of a handful than I was expecting. Extremely demanding of practically every minute of my day.
I did manage to get the canister filter hooked up last night. It had an immediate affect on water clarity. Also the way the spray bar is located it washes detritus over towards the siphon tube. From what I can see in how stuff settles in that corner, I may not have to manually vaccum but every couple days.
A couple of the fish are growing WAY faster than the others. Between the biggest and smallest is maybe a third difference. Everyone eats just as vigorously and have fat bellys after feeding. Could this be a side affect of the low tds issues as discussed on Bill's forum? You seeing the same thing Bill?
No changes in feeding or water changes. I will be testing for ammonia and nitrites daily with the new filter, but with the massive water changes I don't think I'll see anything.
Just a video this week. This was shot after the new filter was installed and I did a major scrubbing. If you look closely at my heater you'll see I scorched it.
I have since added it to the control system to turn off at w/c.
I don't know whats more fun, raising these guys or watching all the other contestants posts. Nothing much changes on my end so I spend more time reading all these other threads, checkin' out the competition. Well it's a good thing I'm in cruise control with the w/c. This new baby bird of mine is a bit more of a handful than I was expecting. Extremely demanding of practically every minute of my day.
I did manage to get the canister filter hooked up last night. It had an immediate affect on water clarity. Also the way the spray bar is located it washes detritus over towards the siphon tube. From what I can see in how stuff settles in that corner, I may not have to manually vaccum but every couple days.
A couple of the fish are growing WAY faster than the others. Between the biggest and smallest is maybe a third difference. Everyone eats just as vigorously and have fat bellys after feeding. Could this be a side affect of the low tds issues as discussed on Bill's forum? You seeing the same thing Bill?
No changes in feeding or water changes. I will be testing for ammonia and nitrites daily with the new filter, but with the massive water changes I don't think I'll see anything.
Just a video this week. This was shot after the new filter was installed and I did a major scrubbing. If you look closely at my heater you'll see I scorched it.
I have since added it to the control system to turn off at w/c.
Nice color and striations. Glad to hear the w/c system is running smooth. Fish are really looking good.
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