{"id":1493,"date":"2011-02-09T16:33:34","date_gmt":"2011-02-09T16:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/canadaqua.babyl.ca\/?p=1493"},"modified":"2012-07-11T16:06:59","modified_gmt":"2012-07-11T16:06:59","slug":"fluval-edge-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/canadaqua.babyl.ca\/?p=1493","title":{"rendered":"Fluval Edge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This was the state of affairs on Feb.1:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"hardscape\" src=\"http:\/\/babyl.dyndns.org\/albums_loc\/anja\/2011\/IMG_5535.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In the meantime I&#8217;ve dismembered some Chladophora, anchored down a bit of Najas guadalupensis (we&#8217;ll see how long that stays put) and gradually moved over the rasboras and the CRS. I still haven&#8217;t got all of the air bubbles out of the top. I&#8217;ll have to go find that algae magnet. But for what it&#8217;s worth, here&#8217;s my first poke at Iwagumi:<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-1493 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/canadaqua.babyl.ca\/?attachment_id=1494'><img width=\"150\" height=\"113\" src=\"http:\/\/canadaqua.babyl.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/IMG_5606.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/canadaqua.babyl.ca\/?attachment_id=1495'><img width=\"150\" height=\"113\" src=\"http:\/\/canadaqua.babyl.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/IMG_5613.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>I took my time (you should have seen me sitting on the floor at Big Al&#8217;s arranging rocks on my little tank sized newspaper piece). I introduced the fish and shrimp 3 per day, even though I had material from their old tank for bacteria. They all seem to be doing well so far.<\/p>\n<p>Substrate is normal Estes Black Marine Sand. Since I&#8217;m not going to play with the light, I figured my plants won&#8217;t need any nutrients beyond what the fish supply for free.<\/p>\n<p>I kept moving the rocks around, because there was always an angle from which I didn&#8217;t like them, and it took me a while for the algae pieces to stay where I wanted them. I thought I could just insert come pebbles, but those things fall apart just where you don&#8217;t want them to. I also find you need a few contortionist genes to arrange anything through that opening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was the state of affairs on Feb.1: In the meantime I&#8217;ve dismembered some Chladophora, anchored down a bit of Najas guadalupensis (we&#8217;ll see how long that stays put) and gradually moved over the rasboras and the CRS. I still haven&#8217;t got all of the air bubbles out of the top. I&#8217;ll have to go [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[183],"tags":[346,345],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/canadaqua.babyl.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/canadaqua.babyl.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/canadaqua.babyl.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canadaqua.babyl.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canadaqua.babyl.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1493"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/canadaqua.babyl.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2504,"href":"http:\/\/canadaqua.babyl.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493\/revisions\/2504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/canadaqua.babyl.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canadaqua.babyl.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canadaqua.babyl.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}