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Update from the fish tank 
21st-Jun-2008 01:28 pm
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Lights are back on since yesterday.
We seem to have lost a silver tipped tetra, and maybe an otocinclus, but everyone else seems fine. Mike the frog is in good shape, as Mikes tend to be.

The algae have certainly taken a beating. There are definitely less of them, and some of them now look brown and lifeless. The plants are unfazed and even seem to have grown a little while lights were off.

I just gave the tank a 10% water change, cleaned the filter sponge (by squeezing it a few times in the bucket of old water) and added the peat to the filter. The water is now being filtered over sponge, then peat pellets, then charcoal. Sounds rather scientific, doesn't it?

I've been told that the peat may turn the water tea-coloured (the charcoal may, however, lessen that side effect or eliminate it altogether) but no one told me whether to expect Earl Grey, Ceylon or Pu-Erh.
While I'm waiting to find out, I might as well have a cuppa!
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