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Sharing a picture from last night. It looks a little dirty as I didn't have time to do much maintenance on it last weekend. It will get a big water change and wipe down once I have the time.
There is a lot of algae on the glass but minimal on the plants. I do find that the older leaves on the Ammannia pedicellata are quite prone to algae, but the new growth is clean. Also have a bit of BBA appearing on the Cryptocoryne, especially where their roots poke out above the substrate. I think it probably means that the plants are healthy for the most part but there is an imbalance somewhere. I used the have a big bunch of Limnophila aromatica which I removed a while back and those plants grew extremely quickly. There is also a lot of gunk in the filter hoses. I think the lack of a big nutrient sponge and lack of filter maintenance is causing the algae to constantly grow on the walls.
The Rotala tulunadensis did show signs of stunting as some of the new growth appeared white and unhealthy. But the newer growth is now showing more colouration, so I think they will recover. They are growing from the stunted white parts though so some of them are looking a little awkward now. Most of them look fine though.
It still looks good, I think, but definitely not as nice before when the soil was rich and fresh. Would like to rescape but I haven't got the heart to tear everything up. I hope I'll get round to it before the end of January though. By then, most of the plants should reach the surface and I'll have a good number of healthy stems to cut down and I can try to sell them or give them away if they aren't good enough to sell. Thereafter I'll catch the shrimp and fish, relocate them to a different aquarium, and decommission this tank. Anyway, here's a picture of the tank that I took yesterday:
20250120_223452 by Lenny Lim, on Flickr
There is a lot of algae on the glass but minimal on the plants. I do find that the older leaves on the Ammannia pedicellata are quite prone to algae, but the new growth is clean. Also have a bit of BBA appearing on the Cryptocoryne, especially where their roots poke out above the substrate. I think it probably means that the plants are healthy for the most part but there is an imbalance somewhere. I used the have a big bunch of Limnophila aromatica which I removed a while back and those plants grew extremely quickly. There is also a lot of gunk in the filter hoses. I think the lack of a big nutrient sponge and lack of filter maintenance is causing the algae to constantly grow on the walls.
The Rotala tulunadensis did show signs of stunting as some of the new growth appeared white and unhealthy. But the newer growth is now showing more colouration, so I think they will recover. They are growing from the stunted white parts though so some of them are looking a little awkward now. Most of them look fine though.
It still looks good, I think, but definitely not as nice before when the soil was rich and fresh. Would like to rescape but I haven't got the heart to tear everything up. I hope I'll get round to it before the end of January though. By then, most of the plants should reach the surface and I'll have a good number of healthy stems to cut down and I can try to sell them or give them away if they aren't good enough to sell. Thereafter I'll catch the shrimp and fish, relocate them to a different aquarium, and decommission this tank. Anyway, here's a picture of the tank that I took yesterday:
20250120_223452 by Lenny Lim, on Flickr