Tank Stats 11/10

pH: 7.6
Nitrite: 0ppm
Nitrate: 0ppm
Ammonia: 0ppm

Update

We've decided to remove the rocks from our aquarium for the time being to avoid potential algae growth on our rocks, which has proven in the past to be difficult to remove. We'll place them back in the tank a few days before the tanks debut.

Right now we're working on any needed preparation work for presentation coming up in a few weeks. Some tasks we worked to get done in the time available included the following; getting everyone on the same page, getting our power point compiled and set, making sure everyone is ready to present and/or share, sharing any other tank ideas, and other needed goals to fullfill.

We are looking for a nice background for our tank, so hopefully we'll have that up soon!

Ph: 6.0 (we don't believe this is true, so further testing is needed)
Nitrate- 0 ppm
Nitrite- 0 ppm
Ammonia- 0 ppm
Phosphate- 0 ppm

Tank Update

PH: 7.6
Ammonia: 0
Nitrate: 0 ppm
Nitrite: 0ppm
Phosphate: 0 ppm

It's been awhile, but update 10/14/10

Well we've had some off days, should be back on schedule for today. Tomorrow, Monday and Tuesday, we will be absent from school due to the various activities (Stem meeting tomorrow, Career Shadowing Monday, Integrated Project Presentation on Tuesday).


We got our rock setup for today, it's looking real nice (credit to Alana)!



Picture will be posted soon!



Tank stats for 10/14/10
Ph: 6.8 ppm
Nitrate: 0 ppm
Nitrite: 0 ppm
Ammonia: 0 ppm
Phosphate: 0 ppm

Our second class trip to Aquarium Adventures

Today started off a little slow, we prepared to go to Aquarium Adventures however the vans that were assigned to pick us up took a little more time then expected, however regardless we made it to Aquarium Adventures and managed to pick up what we needed despite the delay.

We purchased from Aquarium Adventures four more pots of Dwarf Hairgrass and (SOMETHING), one of the fish is actually pregnant so we'll have some nice babies swimming in our tank in a few weeks! The extra hair-grass will help to cover our fish tank to appeal to our "Savannah" or "Plains" idea. We also got some nice ideas from some of the employees, one idea that we really liked was to place in more rocks to build a sort of "mountain" to get an interesting feel.

Daily Record 10/6/10
Ph: 7.2
Ammonia: 2.5
Phosphate: 0
Nitrate: 0
Nitrite: 0
Temperature: 73 Degrees

Yeast in the Tank!

Today we walked to our tank to discover a strange white substance forming a thick layer at the top of our fish tank. Upon further investigation, we realized that this layer of material is actually least leaked from our Co2 Injection system which seemed to have malfunctioned and started releasing the yeast into our tank.

We're currently working towards clearing out the yeast from our tank and we're hoping that it doesn't  cause any heavy long term effects on our ecosystem.


 Daily Record 10/4/10
PH- 7.2
No3- 0 PPM
AMM- 0.25 PPM
No2- 0 PPM
Temperature- 73 Degrees

Daily Record 9/30/10

Tank stats:

• Temperature: 73 degrees Fahrenheit 
• pH: 7.0
• CO2: 12 ppm
• NH3: 0 ppm
• NO2: 0 ppm
• NO3: 0 ppm
• PO4: 0 ppm

Today we changed our water, fed the fish the frozen food tablet, and cleaned the algae off the tank.

Tank photo: