Me too. I'm over having the 43G tank (with the discus still in it) sitting on a removalist trolley in the middle of my lounge room floor. The discus are giving me dirty looks, wondering why they arent' swimming around in the larger tank.Quote:
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scott bowler
I stuffed up :banghead It's still in terrarium mode. Will be so for at least 4 weeks. Pulled up all the HC - there were issues with lazy way I planted it - (didn't separate each plant - simply spread them out on substrate in little clumps). Lazy way didn't work. Plants were laying on top of each other - the underneath ones dying off, as they were deprived of light by those on top of them). The 2nd issue, which would have been prevented by not being lazy in the 1st place) was that I didn't realise there were little bits of riccia mixed in with the HC. Didn't notice it at first, but the riccia was growing at a fast rate & quickly taking over & robbing the HC of light - strangling it in fact. Tried gently pulling the riccia out, but it was just pulling out the HC (it was intermingled amongst the HC roots). Just last night, I finished the tedious task of using tweezers to separate each little plant, picking out all riccia & replanting. Still only laid each plant on the substrate - but each plant laid out individually with space in between eacy.
Very annoyed with myself for this error - otherwise could be filling it now.
Counting on HC filling in & holding the hills together, so they don't collapse into the valleys, when I fill it. This will take time - probably even more than the 4 weeks I'm calculating.
At work - but when home I'll put up pics of the dying HC &
the replanting job. Despite all of this, the HC did multiply and I have heaps left over. I just can't be bothered separating any more of it for the moment.
I'm wishing the sand was a whiter colour & I'm looking into alternatives, that don't raise pH & are not so fine that you get gravel vac issues. This is ADA Bright sand. In the end, I think it's much the same colour as silica pool filter sand. Can anyone say if silica pool filter sand would be lighter?
thanks for stopping by Scott