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Saturday, November 11, 2006

Progress update & more about bacteria

I've been spending quite a fair bit of time discussing everything except the aquarium. Well one of the reasons is that for now there's really not much to show or to talk about. The other reason is that I intended this to be a very informative blog for readers to learn about reef keeping. So here's the aquarium till now. If you compare the this with previous pictures, you'd realise that its less boring now and will those little itsy bits along the ridge, its kinda breaking away the outline of the boring break rocks and making everything look more natural. These is one of the techniques used in rock scaping. Big pieces of rocks are used to form the base structure and then tiny bits such as tonga branches, coral bits etc are used to break away the less sightly appearance of those big bulky rocks. Also I read somewhere that if you do make 'caves' for fishes to swim behind the rock work, your 'cave's' opening should never face the front of the tank directly. infact it should sharply angled towards the side of the tank. So that when fish swim in and out, from the front of the tank, you get to see their full side body, which is much more aesthetic then watching a fish swimming with its face towards you. Was trying hard to implement that into the scaping here but wasn't very successful.

This morning before I headed off to school, I tested the Nitrite levels. Just couple of days back I tested and it indicated a 0.3. Today Nitrite levels is in the good range! I didn't change the water, all i did was just leave it and nitrite levels fell by itself. What does this mean? That the bacteria are doing their job. They've been chowing down and converting nitrites. Its a very good sign! As we've discussed before, what happens next is that there should be a rise in nitrates. This is the most irritating part because nitrates in my opinion are the hardest to get rid off naturally. thats another stage of the nitrogen cycle and will save that explanation for another blog. Guys have a good weekend!

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