What's up fish tank people? Fishtanktv.com, dustinsfishtanks.com bringing it to you on
a Sunday. How is everybody doing? Hope you are doing well! Hope your week went well and
your weekend is going even better. I am having an absolute riot. I have been working on the
old beamer. It's not fish tank related, but I got to give a shout out to all the mechanics
and people that work on their cars, because that is so much fun. You get instant gratification,
just making something better right away to blast. I got this giant gash in my forehead,
do you see that sucker? I was in wheel well getting after it and "Pow!" just nailed it!
Smoked my [inaudible 00:00:32], I also got the grease underneath my nails, so the E36
beamer coming back, I am really excited about it.
But I have got some fish tank action for you folks. Hope you are for this, because here
is what is up. I got flower Anubias for you all. Now I was thinking about this left and
right, up and down, and I am like "What happened? How did I make things flower?", and I was
thinking that it was this. First of all I actually did some maintenance on this tank.
Low tech tank, don't do much to it. I did about probably a 70% water change, I will
zoom in here to show you guys this. 70% water change and I got an ugly amazon lid that I
should turn, but I want to show this Anubias nana coming up out of here one, two flowers
looking good. Here's what I think it is and I got my man Bryan out in the greenhouse in
a second to get his opinion on it as well, but I did a water change and I replaced all
kinds of missing trace elements that were just you know not around. I believe and I
would love your opinion on this, and I don't have all the answers. It was the calcium and
the magnesium that helped it come through. I could be totally wrong on that occasion,
it could be something else, but that's what I am guessing because that was probably depleted.
"What's up Apistogramma straight out of Iquito Peru area. Hello how are you? That's what
I am doing, I am showing you this. I would love to hear your opinion on how to get Anubias
to flower and what you have done. Bryan says this is flowering all the time, so good for
him. This one came about at the top, and hasn't flowered.
But I want to show you what else is going on here. In the greenhouse actually we are
going to be busting it out. Makes me sad to do it, but I have to do it and it's been a
lot of fun. I have got this pond that I am tearing down because supposedly we are going
to be remodeling our house. I don't know, I guess it's the time of year to grow grass
so I am going to be tearing this sucker down and I have been having fun with it, because
I have been yanking out ridiculous amounts of sage and jungle val growing together, so
it is just a lot of greatness right here. Pulling this stuff out, I will show you that.
I have been messing with this, I am going to actually probably try to take this pond
and tear it all down which sucks, but it is whatever. I mean I kind of like playing the
mud in case you guys haven't noticed. But I am going to tear it down, little jungle
val and dwarf sag intertwined ripping it out, you will know the oyster shells to increase
the KH, big thing. These plants are actually growing like almost on top of these. There's
like dirt in the knees on top, so that was awesome, but I am showing this, because it
is getting ripped out. I have a lot of fun with the lilies though. I am going to move
all the lilies and... That's lily action in here. That's lilies in here as I get it down
and dirty. You can see these bad boys here, I shouldn't have lowered the water level surge,
they are really hardy though. I am excited about the lilies it's Species Sunday, and
I don't have a specific species. I am showing you the Anubias flower and I am showing you
moving the pond. I hope that's good enough for you. That's a big old tumor here, come
on! There we go! We got that sucker. I am going to bring this all back here. One of
the things too about the Anubias that I didn't mention was I think the light duration and
I am almost positive that's what is going on with a lot of plants just now. You see
there are some trees starting to bud on. I hope your trees are starting to bud, if you
live in the north side that sucks. You choose where you live.I got Bry here.
Bry cleaning up the tanks, making them look pretty.
I wanted to show this tank too, because Bryan and I have been messing with this and we have
been hitting it with the CO2 and we also got the shade cloth on here and this tank always
gets a lot of algae for some reason. It is always green. Why do you think that is, Bry?
B: I never know...too much light. Too much light, yes! So we have go the shade
cloth on admittedly I didn't have the shade cloth on, but you can see running the passive
CO2 here, you can definitely tell that the plants like it. This was completely full about
3 hours ago so you can see that the plants are standing straight up and the crypts and
the Baby Tears like it. I am having a good time. I hope you are having a good time. Check
out Dustinsfishtanks.com and get those top 10 planted tank tips. Also check out the Dustin's
Fish Tanks FB fan page. I am doing a bunch of stuff over there and make it a great week.
Tank on Folks! Later!