Taking The Long Route - Help Please
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damn no wonder everyone is up the duff over there (American meaning, not yours) hahaBahahahaha!!!!! That's gota be the funniest thing I've read all day!
Although just to be a buzz kill (of the educational kind) in most (or all, not sure exactly) aboriginal cultures the women aren't allowed to play the didgeridoo. Its a mans job to blow the wood
huh, never heard or experienced that. Ive cycled all of my tanks including my 310 with the stuff.
We have nitrate! I got a message about 10 minutes ago saying that the tube went a yellowy orange colour (I assume around 5ppm, she has an api kit) so its FINALLY doing something!
I took a handful of gravel from my goldfish tank the day after I posted this thread, I'm not sure if it was that or the lovely 17°c weather we've had this week but something's happening! Woot!
I took a handful of gravel from my goldfish tank the day after I posted this thread, I'm not sure if it was that or the lovely 17°c weather we've had this week but something's happening! Woot!
Updates? Also since a civilization is measured by the weapons the average person can obtain, doesn't that mean your in the iron age
The pond is nearly fully cycled, I also (sorta) killed to birds with one stone; I was talking to my friend about my sister having to get rid of two of her goldfish (there were 4 6-7" goldfish crammed into an 80ltr), my friend asked if she could take them for her pond.Updates? Also since a civilization is measured by the weapons the average person can obtain, doesn't that mean your in the iron age
Unlike my sister, my friend realises that they can't live in a 250ltr pond forever, and hopes to build a larger pond into her yard for them...
So once the ammonia and nitrite were both below 0.50 we took two decent size goldfish from my mums to my mates and they're absolutely loving the extra room to swim. And plans for a bigger pond already being made.
I haven't heard from her for a few days so its probably fully cycled by now. I was planning to go around there tomorrow or Monday and check on them.
And I kind of agree with the second bit... Hahaha
Nitrifying bacteria slow down as the temperature drops. They stop working at around 10 celsius. I always like to use aquatic plants when cycling a tank or pond. The plants are covered with nitrifying bacteria. In addition, the plants will use up any ammonia, nitrite, or nitrate in the water. Only problem is that it is hard to grow aquatic plants in the winter.
Does this mean that next winter she will need a heater or her bb will cark it and every spring the poor fish will have to go through a nitrogen cycle unless she gets a heater for it in winter?
Its also hard growing aquatic plants with goldfish, although I've found a few mine won't eat, I can't say the same for the two in the pond..
I guess I could try telling her to experiment with them and find out what they eat and what they don't, so on and so forth. She's taken quite the attachment to the two fish (previously named Bubbles and Star
poor fish) so I might just be able to get her to buy them some plants.I have some duckweed growing in a tiny tank on my window ledge that I'm planning to take around to her when its covered with a nice layer of healthy duckweed... But I doubt that would last long, especially since they've been eating flakes their entire lives.
I'll probably just end up taking the entire tank around for her to put somewhere sunny so then her goldfish can have a yummy snack here and there.
