Greetings!
Well that been just over a year now and my tank has been through some ups and downs but I now think its time to do some re-jiggling...
My tank went from this -
To this
And now looks like this
One of the dimmers on my Chirrios lights melted so I went down to one light. Then had the great idea of running the pair of them without the dimmers on full power and the water started to turn green, so I'm back down on one light. I think it looks kind of eery!
My main problem I'm trying to solve right now, other than the general look, is disappearing substrate. The two islands were made up of pond compost and a horticultural sharp sand. I have 3 Cory's which over the last year have spent most their time kicking it up and its made its way into my filter. So most of the top layer has disappeared. So I'm currently looking to replace it with something. I was thinking about some pea shingle or maybe some aqua soil.
The jungle val was growing like crazy but the last time I trimmed it back it just started dying off. Along with lots of other plant.. Now all I'm left with is amazon swords, anubias, java fern and java moss. It perhaps coincided with me going down to one light.
I had a huge moss bush that was full of shrimp, so rather than cut it back I bought a large piece of bog wood and turned it into a beautiful tree!
So now I don't really know what I'm doing. Over the year I have added bits from my other tank that I was emptying, rather than bin the plants, so its a bit of a mess. I was thinking about removing the swords, putting some new substrate down and planting some crypts. My thinking being the crypts would be smaller and might look better next to the big moss tree. Or I could try and build it up to do a sloping hill.
Anyway if anyone would like to offer their opinion I would greatly appreciate it!
Cheers,
Col
My tank specs are-
5ft x 1.5ft
400l
I haven't check my water parameters in ages as they never seemed to change. I'll maybe do that tonight!
I've been EI dosing and doing 50% weekly water changes. I've also started dosing liquid CO2 to combat the BBA algea.
I've got
2 Angel Fish
10ish Neons
6 Cherry Barbs
6 X-ray tetras
3 Corys
1 Rainbow shark
8ish Guppies
8ish platies + 2 babies
1 Plec
Lots of shrimp
Loads of trumpet snails
Well that been just over a year now and my tank has been through some ups and downs but I now think its time to do some re-jiggling...
My tank went from this -
To this
And now looks like this
One of the dimmers on my Chirrios lights melted so I went down to one light. Then had the great idea of running the pair of them without the dimmers on full power and the water started to turn green, so I'm back down on one light. I think it looks kind of eery!
My main problem I'm trying to solve right now, other than the general look, is disappearing substrate. The two islands were made up of pond compost and a horticultural sharp sand. I have 3 Cory's which over the last year have spent most their time kicking it up and its made its way into my filter. So most of the top layer has disappeared. So I'm currently looking to replace it with something. I was thinking about some pea shingle or maybe some aqua soil.
The jungle val was growing like crazy but the last time I trimmed it back it just started dying off. Along with lots of other plant.. Now all I'm left with is amazon swords, anubias, java fern and java moss. It perhaps coincided with me going down to one light.
I had a huge moss bush that was full of shrimp, so rather than cut it back I bought a large piece of bog wood and turned it into a beautiful tree!
So now I don't really know what I'm doing. Over the year I have added bits from my other tank that I was emptying, rather than bin the plants, so its a bit of a mess. I was thinking about removing the swords, putting some new substrate down and planting some crypts. My thinking being the crypts would be smaller and might look better next to the big moss tree. Or I could try and build it up to do a sloping hill.
Anyway if anyone would like to offer their opinion I would greatly appreciate it!
Cheers,
Col
My tank specs are-
5ft x 1.5ft
400l
I haven't check my water parameters in ages as they never seemed to change. I'll maybe do that tonight!
I've been EI dosing and doing 50% weekly water changes. I've also started dosing liquid CO2 to combat the BBA algea.
I've got
2 Angel Fish
10ish Neons
6 Cherry Barbs
6 X-ray tetras
3 Corys
1 Rainbow shark
8ish Guppies
8ish platies + 2 babies
1 Plec
Lots of shrimp
Loads of trumpet snails