Away from the house so I'll get better ones later.
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800 gallon plywood catfish tank
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Tank is doing great. I think the cycling is about balanced. Its been wierd. I used the safe start and within overnite the nitrAtes were present and all was going well until I used the melafix. I've used it many times before but not while cycling. My thoughts are that while it may not harm the biological filter, its anti bacterial properties may limit the environment to grow them (same as bacteria on the fish) basically maybe it limits reproduction. So needless to say my filter had trouble catching up to the bio load. This mornings readings were .25, 0, 10.
I ran carbon to remove any trace, and the drip system helped purge old water out. Now my tank is undergoing a bio-bloom
Fish are fine! Pookie ate a shrimp last night!
I'm going to Prazi pro the tank for flukes as soon as I'm confident bio filter can handle a few days without drip changer. Once treatment is done, the big blue can Join
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Tank is doing great. I think the cycling is about balanced. Its been wierd. I used the safe start and within overnite the nitrAtes were present and all was going well until I used the melafix. I've used it many times before but not while cycling. My thoughts are that while it may not harm the biological filter, its anti bacterial properties may limit the environment to grow them (same as bacteria on the fish) basically maybe it limits reproduction. So needless to say my filter had trouble catching up to the bio load. This mornings readings were .25, 0, 10.
I ran carbon to remove any trace, and the drip system helped purge old water out. Now my tank is undergoing a bio-bloom
Fish are fine! Pookie ate a shrimp last night!
I'm going to Prazi pro the tank for flukes as soon as I'm confident bio filter can handle a few days without drip changer. Once treatment is done, the big blue can Join
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Bio filter finally balanced! I've let it set a few days to make sure. I just moved the blue cat in. What a chore!!!
As soon as he is out I will get pictures.
The system is doing well. Had to tweak a few small things. Pookie the flathead kept knocking the circulating pump out of its holder and that ain't fun when water is 4' deep. So I mounted it to a big magnet and dropped it to bottom and installed magnet on other side. Solved that problem!
Electricity bill climbed 15 dollars but I'm also decommissioning a few small tanks so it should balance out.
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As soon as he is out I will get pictures.
The system is doing well. Had to tweak a few small things. Pookie the flathead kept knocking the circulating pump out of its holder and that ain't fun when water is 4' deep. So I mounted it to a big magnet and dropped it to bottom and installed magnet on other side. Solved that problem!
Electricity bill climbed 15 dollars but I'm also decommissioning a few small tanks so it should balance out.
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All is well, tank has balanced. All the fish seem to be getting used to each other.
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My brother is coming tomorrow to take some good shots
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