14T Via Aqua

Re: !4T Via Aqua

I am beginning to think this tank is jinxed!!
While filling this tank due to the height I hurt my back.
I guess it was raising water to that height. So it is filled and we realize that the stand that was used would be way to high for this type of tank it was actually wobbly. So I found a lower profile side table that was retrofitted to accommodate the filer and aquarium, etc. Really nice. So yesterday we are ready to go again with the tank. So between trips to the heating pad my husband is helping.
That in itself would be the mistake of a lifetime!!!!
This tank has Amazonia I with a layer of power sand. I carefully scooped out the Amazonia being careful not to disturb the power sand. We removed tank and placed on new stand. Oh is it pretty.
Back to the sofa. The husband is now doing the bucket trip to the tank we carefully go over how to pour the water in and the consequences of disturbing the lateral layer. Oh I feel my blood pressure going up just typing this... I rarely ask for help with projects around here, this girl can be found up on a roof fixing things.
So I turn around and look at the tank and it is chocolate brown.....
He has dumped at full force the water in and now all is mixed up. This AM it is no better. I believe I have read somewhere that this does not clear at this point. HELP!!!!
The inert material is the power sand is now distributed all over the tank....even floating. When I initially set this tank up water was crystal clear from minute one
He is definitely in the dog house.
Oh and while installing the ECCO the clips snap!!!! So have ordered parts for that.

Re: !4T Via Aqua

Oh the tank!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Between Doctors appointments, the back.
Blackmon Mooring was there 6 hours a complete clean up. Two rooms of carpet, 3 days of drying & dehumidifying, walls bored, my best guess 20G of water. Tank is fine never leaked a drop, the filter floss may have become to full of debris and just over the span of 11 hours slowly bubbled over the top of the HOB Ref.
In this case we see this as the Lemons to Lemonade for her, new carpet!!! Ann is 89. This was the RAOK tank.

I am a little worried, the tops of the plants are browning. What is that about. If I can do another water change tonight I will, if not tomorrow. The browning worries me.
Mike we have a hitch hiker in the tank, one somehow surviving pond snail. God bless him he is alive under theses conditions. Accrurel is a water clarifier as far as cloudiness goes. Prime is the cocktail of choice. Will eventually add a bag of purigen just not sure when that is. I use it in most of my tanks.
So add the Co2? Not kidding about the test tube colors amazing.
Thank You both Karen

This tank is so far from what I ultimately want it to look like. My abilities have been compromised with this back situation. I'm seeing what is happy in there and will make some choices then. There is a rock on the bottom that is covered in Java fern that is really pretty, you just cannot see it!!!
I want to move a few things to another tank and clean this up some. Will add some moss patches in a week or so for the shrimp to nest in.