obstinate.org » 3 Gallon Planted Office Pico http://obstinate.org The Ramblings and Musings of Mike Joyce Thu, 01 Jul 2010 00:50:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 en hourly 1 Overgrowth http://obstinate.org/tanks/overgrowth/ http://obstinate.org/tanks/overgrowth/#comments Wed, 20 Feb 2008 00:10:04 +0000 Mike Joyce http://obstinate.org/tanks/overgrowth/ Over time, my little 3 gallon pico tank became overgrown. The Ritola Green was seriously taking up ALL of the space in the tank. I trimmed back about half of the growth in the tank and filled up 2 dixie cups worth of clippings. Revealing the substrate revealed an interesting suprise, there was film of detrius all over the bottom of the tank.

I wanted to get rid of this, so I took a little air-powered filter and stirred up the tank, after a few hours the tank was cleared of the detrius and had a good dosing of fresh carbon. Not having a filter in the tank for 6 months I can’t say that I am surprised at all of the detrius settling. I am going to leave the little filter on for a day, and stir everything up a few more times to get as much detritus out of the tank as possible.

]]> http://obstinate.org/tanks/overgrowth/feed/ 0 January Growth Progress on Planted Tanks http://obstinate.org/tanks/january-growth-progress-on-planted-tanks/ http://obstinate.org/tanks/january-growth-progress-on-planted-tanks/#comments Sun, 20 Jan 2008 02:37:37 +0000 Mike Joyce http://obstinate.org/tanks/january-growth-progress-on-planted-tanks/ So I wanted to post some quick shots of the progress on my Planted tanks over the past 2 months:

3 Gallon Pico

From a few months ago
From a few months ago 		January 19th 2008
January 19th 2008

12 Gallon Nano

A few months ago
A few months ago 		January 19th 2008
January 19th 2008
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