Day 10

Day 10
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Day 10

My results have gone up again today!

Ammonia 2.0
Nitrite 0.25
Nitrate 25
Ph 7.5

Decided to try a sepia looking tank today! (Edited in iphoto)

Day 9

Day 9
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Day 9

I woke up this morning to find that the tank had completely cleared itself! I am very happy it looks much better now! Its a huge difference from a couple of days ago!

I tested the water and have found a small amount of nitrite so perhaps that helped the tank to clear. Ammonia has also increased.

Nitrite between 0 and 0.25
Nitrate 12.5
Ammonia 1.0
Ph not tested.

day8

day8
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day8

Todays results

Nitrite 0
Nitrate 0
Ammonia 0.50
Ph 8.0

My volcano arrived from ebay! (99p)
The water is a little less murky but i've gone for a dark and moody picture to make the best of the murkiness!

Day 7

Day 7
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Day 7

Well I have had the biorb a whole week now and I am enjoying looking at it in the corner but I do wish the water would clear. I think it is slightly clearer looking back at yesterdays photo?.. I've been told on a forum that it may be bacterial bloom which presumably is a good thing as I'm trying to get bacteria to live in the gravel!

Good news today as the results have changed a little.

Nitrite 0
Nitrate 0
Ammonia 0.50
Ph 8.0

I also added more of the zyme stuff that adds bacteria to the water hopefully they will start to sort out the water as there is a bit more ammonia for them to live on.

Day 6

Day 6
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Day 6

Today I bought a heater for the tank so hopefully the whole cycling thing should start to work a bit better from now on. Water is looking even murkier than yesterday!

nitrites 0
Nitrates either 0
Ammonia 0.5
Ph 8.

Day 5

Day 5
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Day 5

Today the water has gone a bit cloudy! not really sure why... wasn't expecting that. I hope it clears up soon! I'm wondering whether to add some ammonia, I've seen some people have used that for fishless cycling... Not sure where to get it though..

Today

nitrites 0
Nitrates either 0 or 0.5 (may be my wishful thinking!)
Ammonia 0.5
Ph 8.0

Day 4

Day 4
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Day 4

The results were the same as yesterday

Nitrite 0
Nitrate 0
Amonia 0.25
Ph 8

Day 3

Day 3
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Day 3

I decided to add a bit of green in the form of more plastic plants, I would like to get some real ones but am not sure what to get, I need to do a bit of research first.

Readings today much the same

Nitrite 0
Nitrate 0
Amonia 0.25
Ph 8

Day 2

Day 2
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Day 2

The water is in and a few plastic plants to stop it looking so bare!
we are cycling it without fish! Apparently fish don't like it if you put them straight in! Apparently you need to put fish flakes in each day to build up ammonia levels to encourage the bacteria to grow that neutralise them.

My initial readings are

Nitrite 0
Nitrate 0
Ammonia 0.25
PH 7.5

Day 1

Day 1
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Freshly painted stand for new biorb 60litres

It is bigger than I thought it would be!

Having done a bit of research online I have discovered that goldfish don't really like small tanks so I have decided to go tropical, I bought it to have goldfish really as there are goldfish on the box. Anyway there are some very pretty tropical fish in my local pet shop so I think i'll be spoiled for choice! It doesn't seem much harder to keep tropical fish so I think its a good choice.

Week 4

OCA PWDP Assignment 2
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OCA assignment 2 is finally finished you can see all the photo's for that on my website, http://purplesteffi.moonfruit.com/ soon once i have uploaded them

Week 3 Coursework

Week 3 Coursework
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I have been working on tma 3 for dd122 this week, and the nice shiny new U212 books finaly arrived. I really want to get working on that course but have been disciplined and finished the social science TMA first..

Week 2 Panto Time

Week 2 Panto Time
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Week 2, well this week i have been mostly making my eldest daughters hair into buns, She has been dancing in the dick wittington panto in our town.

chocholate....

chocholate....
Originally uploaded by Purplesteffi

I have started the 52 weeks about you project, not sure how many weeks i'll keep it up, i tend to quit this kind of stuff quite quickly!
so i'm going to post one or more photo's a week on here so i can see how the project goes.

This week one picture is of the chocholate that is left over from xmas and my feeling that i should start my diet sooner rather than later!

Assignment 1 feedback.

I got my tutor feedback today for assignment 1. He was pretty positive and felt the same as me that the elec windmill was the weakest set and the house the strongest. There was a couple of pages of comments which is a whole lot better that T189 where there was little general feedback and no individual feedback!

OCA work made explore!

pumpkins_door
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This is a combination of a pumpkin shot and an old crumbling door. I layered it together using blending modes for my oca coursework and it made explore on Flickr. The highest position to date of my pics in explore - 24! I have now had 3 pics in explore!

Leaves

tree 6
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This is a simple version of the same technique.

tree Trunk @ night

tree 1
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Night time Flash experiments

tree 3
Originally uploaded by Purplesteffi

This is the result of some experimenting with flash in my local park, I was inspired by seeing Sarah Jones work in the national media museun, see flickr for the link.

I was quite pleased with this one, the tree trunks are actulaay more like the images I saw though.

OCA Assignment 1

OCA Assignment 1
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Well this is it the final selection for my first oca assignment, I will ahve to wait a week or so to find out what the tutor thinks!