{"id":1166,"date":"2012-12-14T17:04:51","date_gmt":"2012-12-14T22:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.borgodu.com\/?p=1166"},"modified":"2016-06-15T14:47:49","modified_gmt":"2016-06-15T14:47:49","slug":"cleaning-aquarium-tanks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/BORG\/2012\/12\/14\/cleaning-aquarium-tanks\/","title":{"rendered":"Cleaning aquarium tanks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The flowing seawater system at the aquarium has been providing our tanks with lovely fresh creek water, the only problem is all the algae that comes with it. The algae foul the sides of the tank as well as the\u00a0seagrass, and combined with all the leaves that have fallen from the surrounding trees this makes for a lot of crud in the tanks. We need to reduce the fouling as much as possible as it will cover the seagrass and prevent light from reaching the leaves. Once we transplant our seagrass\u00a0in January we will be at the facility several times a week and keeping the tanks clean on a regular basis. Our mission last week was to get\u00a0the tanks clean and ready to receive seagrass in the new year. We skimmed all the leaves off the surface, then drained each tank and scrubbed the algae off the sides finishing with scooping all the crud off the bottom. We had two trays of seagrass that we placed in a tank\u00a0last month as a test, they were heavily fouled and we feared that they would be dead, but under all that algae they were alive and growing, so the good news is that seagrass love our tanks.<\/p>\n<div>We also made screens for each tank to prevent leaves falling in and to reduce the light to levels the seagrass would experience in the natural environment.\u00a0With this done they we are set for transplanting in January.<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/BORG\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/57\/2012\/12\/022.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1172\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/BORG\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/57\/2012\/12\/022-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"022\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/BORG\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/57\/2012\/12\/022-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/BORG\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/57\/2012\/12\/022-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/BORG\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/57\/2012\/12\/022-945x709.jpg 945w, https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/BORG\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/57\/2012\/12\/022-600x450.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/BORG\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/57\/2012\/12\/021.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1171\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/BORG\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/57\/2012\/12\/021-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"021\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/BORG\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/57\/2012\/12\/021-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/BORG\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/57\/2012\/12\/021-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/BORG\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/57\/2012\/12\/021-945x709.jpg 945w, https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/BORG\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/57\/2012\/12\/021-600x450.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/BORG\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/57\/2012\/12\/014.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1170\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/BORG\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/57\/2012\/12\/014-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"014\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/BORG\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/57\/2012\/12\/014-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/BORG\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/57\/2012\/12\/014-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/BORG\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/57\/2012\/12\/014-945x709.jpg 945w, https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/BORG\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/57\/2012\/12\/014-600x450.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/BORG\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/57\/2012\/12\/012.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1169\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/BORG\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/57\/2012\/12\/012-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"012\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/BORG\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/57\/2012\/12\/012-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/BORG\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/57\/2012\/12\/012-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/BORG\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/57\/2012\/12\/012-945x1260.jpg 945w, https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/BORG\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/57\/2012\/12\/012-600x800.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/BORG\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/57\/2012\/12\/007.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1168\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/BORG\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/57\/2012\/12\/007-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"007\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/BORG\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/57\/2012\/12\/007-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/BORG\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/57\/2012\/12\/007-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/BORG\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/57\/2012\/12\/007-945x709.jpg 945w, https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/BORG\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/57\/2012\/12\/007-600x450.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/BORG\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/57\/2012\/12\/006.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1167\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/BORG\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/57\/2012\/12\/006-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"006\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/BORG\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/57\/2012\/12\/006-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/BORG\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/57\/2012\/12\/006-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/BORG\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/57\/2012\/12\/006-945x709.jpg 945w, https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/BORG\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/57\/2012\/12\/006-600x450.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The flowing seawater system at the aquarium has been providing our tanks with lovely fresh creek water, the only problem is all the algae that comes with it. The algae foul the sides of the tank as well as the\u00a0seagrass, and combined with all the leaves that have fallen from the surrounding trees this makes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":1169,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wds_primary_category":0},"categories":[2,4,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/BORG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/BORG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/BORG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/BORG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/BORG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1166"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/BORG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1663,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/BORG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166\/revisions\/1663"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/BORG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/BORG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/BORG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/BORG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}