The Swank Tank

Thursday, September 30, 2010

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:

Daily Record 9/29

Temp: 72 degrees Fahrenheit
pH: 7.2
CO2: 7.6 ppm
NH3: 0.25
NO2: 0 ppm
NO3: 0 ppm
PO4: N/A

Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Daily Record 9/28/10

Tank Stats:

Temperature: 72 degrees Fahrenheit
pH: 7.2
KH: 4
GH: N/A
CO2: 7.6 ppm
NH3: 0.25
NO2: 0 ppm
NO3: 0 ppm
PO4: N/A

Yesterday we went to Aquarium Adventures and got our supplies. The supplies we got were not for our original plan because we were advised that the original plan would be very strenuous.

In this new design we have dwarf hairgrass, gold white cloud mountain minnows, hillstream loaches, and three zebra rocks. We got all of this at Aquarium Adventures plus excellent advise from the employees. In this design we will have the dwarf hairgrass making a carpet over the gravel with the three zebra rocks piled on each other off to the side.

Today our CO2 injector exploded and now we have to revise the design and make a new injector. We also cleaned our tank and feed the fish 1/8 of a frozen food tablet.

Tank photo:

Friday, September 24, 2010

Preparing for Aquarium Adventures

Today we prepared for our trip to Aquarium Adventures on Monday. At Aquarium Adventures, we will be purchasing fish, fixtures, plants, and other objects based on what we need and what we want to add to our aquarium.

We decided today as a team to make a few adjustments to our plan,

We decided to stick to smaller fish as it would look great to have a large school of small fish swimming around our large Amazon Sword plants.
We are going to take a look online as to what small fish/plants we are going to purchase on Monday. We plan to try to focus on getting fish which are less than an inch in size and plants that will add a "meadow" feel or a "jungle" look to our aquarium.
We learned today that to grow Glossostigma successfully, we would need about 80 Watts worth of light. We plan to design or bring in a light fixture with Fluorescent Day-Adjusted Blue light bulbs to provide the light we need.
Once we get to Aquarium Adventures, we've decided to focus more on our plants before our fish as we still are unsure as to what we wish to purchase.

Later today we will be posting facts about our fish/plants, stay tuned!