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Welcome to SKF @uslanja :)

Hello from beautiful Ridgeway Ontario Canada, on the shore of Lake Erie, one of Canada's Great Lakes.  The Great Lakes are also known as Canada 's South Coast, except by anyone who lives on one of our two actual coasts!  After many years in the salt water reef hobby where I became very seriously addicted and suffered from the "One More Tank Syndrome" (MTS) disease, I am tempting my addictive nature once again, (but I truly believe that I am in control this tjme) with fresh water.  I have my fingers crossed because............. here I go again ;-)

So, my name is Dave and here is my story about falling off the wagon.......

I am enthralled by aquariums and many evenings my wife (Tracy) just says "goodnight" and heads upstairs.  Of course my ears are not working because all of my sensory perceptions are consentrated on looking through my magnifying glass.  I no longer get cold shoulder sandwiches for lunch anymore.  A good thing!  December /15 I stopped at an LFS and picked up an inoccent little 20 Long.  Now what harm can that do?  As well an Aqua Clear AC110 hob filter, Current USA freshwater planted LED light and 40 lbs of Seachem Flourite Dark substrate followed me home.  This will be my only tank and a planted one at that.  A few plants, some dwarf fish and some shrimp.  A very non-threatening excercise in restraint and enough to fit the "aquatic life in my living room" fix.  One very serious problem occurred in my 20L and that was my Red Cherry Shrimp were disappearing without a trace.  38 shrimp and many of them berried just vanished.  Hmm,  Pangio Loaches are supposed to be shrimp safe!  But a Planaria Worm was also discovered and I read where they will take shrimp.  So I starve the tank, bait the diy flatworm trap and catch nothing but ditrius worms.  The threat of hostiles threatening my shrimp is still present and a rescue mission was mounted.  This is where the wagon lurched out from under me on Aug. 06/16 and another tank, light, substrate, sponge filter and other little items followed me home.  But I can stop at two tanks......... no problem.

A sweet looking 2.5 gallon plexi with a real clean caulking job is being used for now as the water box.  A 10 inch (25.4 cm) Finnex 6500K with red and blue LED sits on the top.  5 lbs (2.5268 kg)  of Carib Sea Tahitian Black sand for substrate, but only half the bag was used to keep the substrate areas at an inch (2.54 cm) or less, one piece of Malaysian drift wood because I liked how it looks, a small portion of almost bleached out yellow and mostly dead Vesicularia ferries "weeping moss" crazy glued to the driftwood and one Cladophora aegagropila "Marimo Moss Ball" that was divided into three completes the tank along with self sourced and boiled beach pebbles.  The rescue mission netted 14 RCS.  The tank was but together without any type of cycle because of the emergency situation.  So........... now I am here, and......... now what?

The goal to obtain plenty of accurate and tested knowledge for my success and to one day help others is underway!  Looking forward to meeting everyone!

Dave

p.s. Pictures as soon as I figure out how to submit them

Edited August 7, 20169 yr by uslanja
fat fingers and read what it should be not what is!

Welcome Dave.

Nice story. Looking forward to your pictures of the tank.

With regards to MTS, all I can say is "Yeah, right ! Good luck."

There will always be an excuse for another tank.

 

I'd say those loaches were the culprit. Moving the remaining RCS out to their own tank is the right thing to do. The new tank shouldn't take too long to cycle if you use old filter media.

 

Haha MTS , You start with one tank and before you know it your living room has a few breeding racks and you might sneak a few into unused places. Welcome again :)