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Here comes Kelesa!




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Fei Feng~

Water Change

Done water change this morning, around 10%. Added water conditioner, pH down and salt.

pH still high, around 7.6 at the moment. Hope it drops this time after water change.

Also, I moved my two green tortoises to Kelesa's home again.

Coral Chips

Just took out all coral chips from Kelesa's home. pH varies between 7 and 8, thus took them out and leave only the one in plant's pot.

Just now also blackout at my area! Luckily I got standby air pump.

New Plant

Just moved the plant I got from Bintulu to a new pot which I bought yesterday. I put coral chips at bottom as weight. The pot is high because that will prevent the powerful current from pump stirring up the rotten leaves inside the pot, thus messing up the water.

Feeder Fish

Bought some fast swimming feeder fish for Kelesa just now.

The reason I choose fast swimming fish is because I want to get my Kelesa to exercise as he needs to chase them in order to get them.

pH Reading

Today's the pH reads 7.1 - 7.3.

Major Cleaning

Just finished cleaning all filters medias, algae on glass surface and bottoms, all debris and dirts in aquarium, as well as cleaning all pumpsets, and pH probe.

Also, cleaned tortoises tank and moved Oscar to main tank.

Added pH down and salt to tank hoping to bring down pH and also killing all bacterias in tank.

It took me about 2 hours for all these task, but that gonna last a few months before next major cleaning.

Drop Scale!

Not sure what happened but found one drop scale near left head of Kelesa.

Will try water change later and put in some salt to avoid infection of bacteria.

pH Down Solution

Been using pH down for pass 4 days and only managed to drop pH by 0.4 so far consuming 2 bottles of pH down solution. Partly it's because the weather is hot and I top up 4 gallons of water every one or two days and my water source is over pH 8.

Today just bought another 3 bottles and hope can bring it to at least 7.

Will try water change this weekends.

pH Test

Tested pH today and it's really high!

Will try getting some more pH down and black water tomorrow.

Updates

Well, rearrangement again, but this time to the tank itself as I find the wood and plants looks better when they're all laying on the bottom.

Here are some photos I took just now:

Day Shot:


Night Shot:


Close Shot:


Will try to check pH tomorrow with pH test kit as my pH monitor shows kinda high reading these days.

Water Change

Done water change tonight before sleep. Well, it's too easy to do water change with sump filtration system. I really enjoy it now!

Sultan In Danger!

Can't get super worm and feeder fish as they're all out of stock, so I bought some bigger size 'Sultan' feeder fishes, 35 of them.

At first I scared they are too big, but when I released them into Kelesa's home, Kelesa zoomed towards them and swallowed few at one go. As they can only fit into Kelesa's mouth and also Cat fish's mouth, so when I'm backed from work, can't find any more 'sultan', and both of them got big tummy!

Poor lampam, nothing to eat. So I give some pellets again.

pH above 7, hope to bring them down later when free.

News

Back home yesterday and hope to see Kelesa taking pellets but...

So no choice, after 5 days still don't want to take pellets, so fed him with some prawn and getting some super worms later.