Tank is still cycling. Ammonia is zeroing out daily now (initially from 8ml, now 10ml added) and the nitrite may have dropped a touch tonight. I was hoping to get fish in at the weekend but this seems increasingly unlikely as time moves on.
Plants are growing well and I’m having to trim them down regularly at the moment.
I started a fishless cycle on 4th adding 10ml of Ammonia. Unfortunately I also started dosing E.I. dosing at the same time and I think it might have caused a bit of an overload as I’m struggling a bit with algae at the moment.
The cycle seems to be progressing quite well. I got the first indications of nitrite on the 8th at around 0.8ppm. I then, perhaps stupidly, added another 4ml of ammonia which may well have contributed to the algae I have now. Nitrite went off the scale around the 11th and remains there at the moment. Ammonia went down to 0 on the 12th so I added another 6ml. This has gone back to 0 again tonight (14th) so I’ve added another 8ml.
Onto some pics..
This is the tank as it is tonight, algae and all.
Some shots of the lovely algae..
Ok, so I lied about tomorrow…
Some of the sand in & a first hardscape test
Some more sand in & another hardscape
Final sand and another hardscape. This is almost the one I decided on.
Getting there. Hardscape settled on more or less & plants going in.
Planting completed more or less. CO2 installed, supplied by the fire extinguisher seen bottom left. Lighting now put onto the tank.
Very slightly revised planting – i.e. I move one of the anuibias to the top of the wood to give a bit of height on the left as it looked odd low down.
I’ve been meaning to start this for a while…
Over the last few weeks I’ve been planning the strip down & re-setup of my tank from a very neglected state. The tank in question is an older style Juwel Rio 240. The lighting went last year some time and needed replacing so I decided to go mad and do the following for a high tech planted tank:
So on to some pictures…
Tank cleaned out & ready for the off. Note the Juwel filter that would normally be in the right-hand corner has been removed. Black background has been added using vaseline secured with double-sided tape at the edges.
Tropica substrate added. The blue tape is there to give me some rough levels for where the sand is to end up.
A close-up of the Tropica substrate.
More to follow tomorrow..
Finally got around to loading some new images to Flickr. Never seen a weevil until this last month. Now I’m finding them all over the shop!
Another archives visit????today????and????I’ve????actually????found????something????useful!
Looking throught the indexes to the documents relating to the deeds of Steep Hill House, I found references to the Hickson family who I know from census & rate records owned????the house next to James’s. This now fixes the position of their property and means that the Casrterton one must be where the current Parish Hall is.
I also checked the will’s of William Wilkinson, who owned several houses leading downhill to James’s, and Elizabeth Hickson. Neither gave me any useful information relating to location.
Documents relating to the building of the Parish Hall seem to be rather sparse (i.e. none found as yet..) but on a chance I viewed the 1925-1927 bound copy of the parish magazines. In it I found the following useful snippets:
From the Feb. 1925 issue:
“It is generally known that one of the two cottages which stand on the Parish Hall Site is now vacant. Mrs Richardson, our other tenant, is anxious to move as soon as she is can find another house. The building of the hall will be taken in hand at once.”
From the accounts in the April 1825 issue:
“Parish????Hall????Property????Costs????????505????4s????8d”
From the Jan. 1826 issue under the heading Stop Press:
“The Parochial Church Council has given general approval to Mr H. G. Gamble’s plans for the Parish Hall”
From the May 1926 issue:
“Welcome news! Mr E Scarborough has signed a contract for building the Hall.”
Finally from the June 1926 issue:
“A scene of destruction is not often greeted as a welcome sight, but that which meets one’s eye as one looks down from the South Door of S. Michael’s Church does merit this description.”
So not only is there the first mention of what was where the hall currently is, but also the date it was demolished (May-June 1926).
I’m currently trying to locate James Casterton’s house which is/was in St. Michael on the Mount Parish in the Steep Hill area of Lincoln, but which one is it?
Candidate one is St. Michael’s Parish Hall
Candidate two is the current No. 55 Steep Hill
