Jared Andrews

Just like that the nitrate jumped back up.

Surprised to see the nitrate drop this low after the last water change.

Did a 2 gallon water change after testing.

I'm seeing the nitrate rise, I suppose due to the new fertilizer.

Added 1 pump of APT-1 after testing.

I have decided to move away from Easy Green Fertilizer in this tank and switch to APT-1.

I removed my friends sponge on August 26th and did a two gallon water change so that I could give him some of the water.

Had a really busy month and neglected the tank a bit.

Added 2 pumps of easy green after testing.

Added 2 pumps of easy green after testing.

Added 1 pump of easy green after testing.

I was surprised to see TDS jump by almost 50 points in the last 7 days.

I did a 20% water change a few days ago.

Didn't test the tank for a few weeks and I'm happy to see the parameters have been stable.

Added one pump of easy green after testing.

Added one pump of easy green after testing.

Added 1 pump of easy green after testing.

Cruising thru the winter and things are looking good.

Added 1 pump of easy green after testing.

Have been really slacking on testing the tank recently.

Had a very busy Christmas season and did not properly test or document the tank for the entire month of December!

Loving the Pothos growth I am seeing.

I haven't talked about the Weeping Moss I added to the tank on August 27th for a while.

Everything looking good.

Everything looking good in the tank this week, forgot to take a picture.

Did a ~2 gallon water change after testing.

Things are looking good, I still haven't seen any planaria since the final dose.

No-planaria did not appear to cause any issues.

Parameters still looking good.

While the shrimp danced quite a bit after the first dose yesterday, everything seems to be going well.

Today's the day, I am finally going to start a No-Planaria regimen.

As noted on August 25th, quite a few shrimp babies were born.

I was so busy this weekend I didn't have time to test the tank or even take a picture of it.

It has now been a week since adding the new filter and I have seen no issues with the parameters.

I finished making updates to the tank.

Let the chaos begin.

It's been a couple weeks since I noticed the number of berried shrimp go down.

Did not do my usual tests this week.

It's strange to me that the GH / KH are dropping, not really sure what the deal with that is.

Had an excess of cucumbers from my garden, so I finally tried out putting blanched cucumbers into the tank this week.

Did a 2 gallon water change after testing, just to bring the nitrate down a little bit.

While nitrate levels have begun rising since I began my increased feeding experiment, they hadn't reached critical levels until this week.

Did a 1 gallon water change after testing.

The increase in feeding seems to be working better than when compared to the period of time I did it around May 12.

I doubled the amount I feed the fish this week without negative results.

Saw a lot of little shrimp molts this week, so it seems like every one is doing good.

Did a 1 gallon water change after testing.