10 Gallon Endler & Shrimp Tank

[Ch4rlie]

Nice! Unfortunately my shrimp dont eat hair algae and blue green algae.

 
Yeah, shrimps won't eat hair algae (bba) or blue green algae (bga) unfortunately.
 
Here, a little info on algae for you, might help if you're having issues with algae
 
http/www.theplantedtank.co.uk/algae.htm

 

[thefishnoob]

Yup. I plan on doing a H2O2 dip for my java moss and dwarf sag tomorrow during water change time.

 

[tmoney7]

hydrogen peroxide gets rid of algae?

 

[Ch4rlie]

Yes, spot dosing with H202 or hydrogen peroxide on algae can work.

 

[508]

Looks great. Any reason why that one bunch of plants is floating?

 

[Ch4rlie]

Looks great. Any reason why that one bunch of plants is floating?

 
Floating plant is Elodea (Egeria Densa), they do absolutely fine as floating plant and the substrate is not really deep enough to plant any plant tbh
 
And i like the way the elodea look as floating plants, just kinda looks natural imo. 

 

[Ch4rlie]

Love this tank! You should take a vid c:

 
You asked for it, you have been warned, my vid skills are pretty bad.
 
So here's bad, out of focus, shaky and a finger in lens kinda vid 

 
LINK
 
Hope you enjoy it!

 

[Ninjouzata]

I did! The endlers looked like they were glowing, so pretty And the shrimp on the leaf were sooo tiny! The ones in the moss ball too!
I think this is also the first time I've gotten to see assassins moving about. ^.^

 

[Ch4rlie]

Just a small update, really a bit of infer for those who want to know more about what media to fit into filters.
 
 

 
Here you will see the Marina HOB filter.
 
On left is two pieces of sponge media crammed in,
In middle is small piece of sponge media on bottom, in middle is media bag filled with ceramic noodle media, and on top of that is another piece of sponge media, all of which came from another tank filter with mature media, makes for fast cycling of a tank 

On right, is empty, this where water enters the filter via the powerhead with sponge attached.
 
I do a maintenance clean on this filter every 2 or 3 weeks, depend on flow output of water, just a squeeze of half the sponge media in old tank water and return to filter, then i clean the water intake pipe and propeller, these help to maintain good water flow into filter as well as output into the tank.
 
I use these media rather than the stuff that came in the box,
 

 
The reason why i don't use these cartridges, is these are, imo, not as effective as sponge media and ceramic media.
And for those of you who DO use this stuff, do not replace every so often as stated on the pocket, bacteria will be fine to grow on these cartridges so don't replace them, just leave and gently clean half at a time in old tank water.
 
Hope that helps those who are wondering about this sort of thing about filters.

 

[Ch4rlie]

I did! The endlers looked like they were glowing, so pretty

And the shrimp on the leaf were sooo tiny! The ones in the moss ball too!

I think this is also the first time I've gotten to see assassins moving about. ^.^

 
Aw, lol
 
Glad to let you see assassins moving about, they are cool.
 
Loads of tiny shrimps, when i was cleaning the filter, for pics above, there was 4 shrimps in it having a feast! 

 

[thefishnoob]

I like the filter cartridges. They're cheap.

 

[Ch4rlie]

I like the filter cartridges.

They're cheap.

 
They may be fairly cheap, but to be honest these filter media do very little compared to having sponge media, ceramic media and filter floss as well.
 
For best filtration and cleaning of water, i would suggest using these instead of the filter cartridges. Thats imho.

 

[EllieJellyEllie]

Looks good! I wasnt expecting it not to, of course  

 

[Ch4rlie]

Looks good! I wasnt expecting it not to, of course

 
Thanks Ellie 

 

[Ch4rlie]

Just a quick update, got new lights for my 10 gal.
 
18w aqua one bulb light. Did not realise just how big it is, cool!
 

 
Compared to my old aqua one 9w light, almost double sized.
 
 

 
So will be taking off the LED lights as they are a bit dim and tank needs a little more light but not so much, so i may fit 11w bulbs instead of 18w to the new light unit, will see how it goes.