Stuff that happened to you today but isn't worth a thread

Yeah for one thing it does not kill your back in traffic ..

But this ... might get me back in the saddle.

Later Ferdie

 

With Christmas almost upon us and before everyone starts going away, we had our Carols by Candlelight for the Community last night to bring on the Christmas feeling and meaning

 

Stunning @A new day !!

Yeah.. sounds like a good idea

 

Woke up yesterday to 4 of 6 tiger barbs dead. Shortly(12hrs) after a 45% wc and a few days since co2(3bps in 165l heavily planted) was added.
Many questions and many tests later I'm thinking either really dodgy tap water or less likely co2 od.
I have added a drop checker and have been monitoring hourly, testing an hour after each phase, lights off no co2, backlight and c02 and then full light and co2.
I noticed concerning high gh and kh built overnight, was getting inconsistent readings of chlorination across tests which was odd.
Kh and gh dropped to near perfect once backlight and c02 kicked in.
Drop checker hasn't made it past a mild blue in 12hrs so I strongly doubt c02 was the cause as initially assumed.
Nitrates, nitrites and ammonia have not measured high once across all testing

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Currently using safe, I strongly suspect that's the case. Got slack and my poor barbs suffered the consequences, should have tested tap water before. Never been an issue, didn't think to retest the source

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I am almost certain its the tap water and more than likely higher levels of ammonia in the tap water than usual. Test your tap water for ammonia. I would mot be surprised if it ita between 0.4 and .06.

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Seems you can't give away fish any more

 

Planaria often dies off if it doesn't have food

 

Picked up an interesting little 30l quarantine tank. Have my 6 new tiny tiger barbs in there. Cycled sponge and cycled media in the hob. Think this will make a really cool nano scape long term.
Water is from the 165l and wood I added for some cover has added some tannins

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Nice @necris

Well... if that becomes a nice little nano.... its an excuse to get another tank..

 

The greatest excuse in the world for another tank... "its a quarantine"

 

Best is the gf sent me the link
I get the feeling 30l is just too small for quarantine long term, can't waste it. Just have to plant it

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Weekend is here. Having lots of fun in Stellenbosch

 

Decided to dye my hair today. I left the dye in for two whole hours. No colour change. Apparently I have dye retardant hair.