lets see that bare bottom!!

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m8r8j

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tank that is... been thinking of going bare bottom in my 180 with a couple giant pieces of driftwood. so lets see some bare bottom tank pics, doesnt even have to be yours.


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This is my setup:

All terracotta ornaments allows for denitrification as MASSIVE amounts colonize inside the terracotta! when completely bare with nothing my nitrite would build over the ween, i found as i added a piece of terracotta, depending on size it would reduce my nitrites by 5ppm, with the amount i have in the tank now, i have a constant zero reading:

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Shouldn't nitrites always be zero in a cycled aquarium? And by the way your oscar has HITH. I believe in the third picture. Nitrates is the one that is not always zero in a cycled aquarium.
 
Ninjakiller08 said:
Shouldn't nitrites always be zero in a cycled aquarium? And by the way your oscar has HITH. I believe in the third picture. Nitrates is the one that is not always zero in a cycled aquarium.
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Appologies nitrate is zero, autocorrect.

The Oscar has no HITH, it is a bite mark from my Fenustratus, was fresh the day the pic was taken, completely healed now.

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m8r8j said:
those caves are awesome where did you get those


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The rectangular ones are window plant pot boxes and I ground the end off to make tubes

The semi circular pipe was a real rare find,I got that in friends back garden, he was digging in a garden bed, and pulled it out the ground and was going to throw it in the skip, originally it was 1.5m long!

I split it in half then chopped the length to about 15inch

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Ninjakiller08 said:
Shouldn't nitrites always be zero in a cycled aquarium? And by the way your oscar has HITH. I believe in the third picture. Nitrates is the one that is not always zero in a cycled aquarium.
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Although you pointed out the mistake, was the HITH comment really needed?

I'm barebottom in both my 150 & 40b grow out tank. I'll be sure to get some pics up when my phone app doesn't crash constantly.
 
4D3 said:
Avatar contains an image of a troll.....

Nuff said!

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So everyone who has a troll meme would be trolls? lol.
@4D3, what did you use to split those things? I might go and buy some clay pots and break them so that I may have those caves within the tank. :D
 
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