{"id":212,"date":"2006-04-25T22:34:15","date_gmt":"2006-04-25T22:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/2007\/04\/more-adjustments-to-the-tank\/"},"modified":"2006-04-25T22:34:15","modified_gmt":"2006-04-25T22:34:15","slug":"more-adjustments-to-the-tank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2006\/04\/25\/more-adjustments-to-the-tank\/","title":{"rendered":"More Adjustments to the Tank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In order to counter mild outbreak of white spot among the Lionheads that started 2 weeks ago, the aquarium fan was turned off and the water temperature allowed to adjust to the daily ambient temperatures of 29 to 31 degrees. A healthy dose of aquarium salt was also added.<\/p>\n<p>The good news is that the white spot is almost gone. The bad news is that the water plants took a big hit both in the increased salt content of the water, and also generally higher temperature. A number of leafs and stems decayed during the two weeks, and had to be removed when we did a major maintenance of the tank the other night. Here\u2019s what the tank looks like now, sans a number of plants:<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image69\" src=\"https:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/2006-Aquarium-PICT1547-tank-version33-small.JPG\" alt=\"2006-Aquarium-PICT1547-tank-version33-small.JPG\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The filter had been worked round the clock too; the amount of detrius and decomposed material that had been caught by the filter sponge was incredible, and loosening out the dirt in a pail of water turned everything inside it brown. Scary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In order to counter mild outbreak of white spot among the Lionheads that started 2 weeks ago, the aquarium fan was turned off and the water temperature allowed to adjust to the daily ambient temperatures of 29 to 31 degrees.<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-read-more\"><a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2006\/04\/25\/more-adjustments-to-the-tank\/\">Read More<span class=\"cleanwp-sr-only\">  More Adjustments to the Tank<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aquarium-pets","wpcat-5-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}