Cazza
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Looks excellent! Some of the moss in my tank grew emersed really well.
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Kaliilo
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I love that wood, looks like a tree stump in an enchanted forest. Tank looks stunning. I would say you have achieved 'lush'
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Thanks for your kind words 😀 It's not the sharp precise aquascape, but I'm enjoying its own messy jungly vibe.
Anyone else enjoy the view when sitting on the floor looking up into their tank?
Anyone else enjoy the view when sitting on the floor looking up into their tank?
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Mini update and advice request.
The weeping moss seems to be giving me some little new lighter green ends, which is great. Some crisping on the emersed bit but also new growth up there too. I put one tiny straggle of tripartita up there, just to see what would happen, one end in the water the rest on the moss. It quickly dried out but now has tiny little new emersed leaves. This is the kind of simple pleasure that this hobby is full of!
Another highlight from this evening's brief trim and top up was seeing three Otos hanging out. (Eye spy in the image below) Having only seen two at once for quite a while I was beginning to wonder if I've been somehow failing to provide properly for them. Actually, I should request advice here too. Is a single Hakari algae disc per night broken up into a few pieces enough for 6 given that the shrimp also love them?
Last, see the image of my marsilea/blanket weed(?)/parva/BBA carpet. What would you do? I'm hoping the BBA will calm down now the CO2 is off. Not sure the marsilea gets enough light really, maybe go for just a parva carpet?
The weeping moss seems to be giving me some little new lighter green ends, which is great. Some crisping on the emersed bit but also new growth up there too. I put one tiny straggle of tripartita up there, just to see what would happen, one end in the water the rest on the moss. It quickly dried out but now has tiny little new emersed leaves. This is the kind of simple pleasure that this hobby is full of!
Another highlight from this evening's brief trim and top up was seeing three Otos hanging out. (Eye spy in the image below) Having only seen two at once for quite a while I was beginning to wonder if I've been somehow failing to provide properly for them. Actually, I should request advice here too. Is a single Hakari algae disc per night broken up into a few pieces enough for 6 given that the shrimp also love them?
Last, see the image of my marsilea/blanket weed(?)/parva/BBA carpet. What would you do? I'm hoping the BBA will calm down now the CO2 is off. Not sure the marsilea gets enough light really, maybe go for just a parva carpet?
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Due an update I think.
The confessional door thuds behind me and the curtain is drawn back - 'Father, I've been neglecting my tank'
I did clean the pre filter, top up and switch over to clean lily pipes at some point but basically I've done nothing for a good six/eight weeks two of which I was away for.
Found one of my Otos lying crispy on a floating plant. Not sure how that happened or when. Would have thought it could easily wiggle off if it got scared and jumped up by accident. Good news is that I saw three others in a group, so you never know, I still maybe have five of them alive.
It would seem that I'm reaching the end of the glorious no need to fertilize period as I near 1 year since set up. Floating plants are not as prolific, but this is why they are here; deploy the duck weed index! Any feedback welcome!
Down to only one or two tiny red root no-ters (as I like to call them) and the older leaves of the salvinia are brown.
Marsilea carpet is looking pretty meh, effected by the BBA I've been embracing nearby. I pulled up some and going with a Bacopa 'carpet' (planted one stem at a time - it never divides when trimmed for me) for now and hoping to migrate over to mostly parva in time.
The rotala is looking very ropey, neglect combined with the water level getting lower and lower has not been good. I'm a bit skeptical that a dramatic trim would work, but I took a chunk of mess out. Maybe if I replant the non crispy tops, but that is for another day.
Pogostemon similarly didn't enjoy the low water levels and the myriophylum is all but gone. Sad times.
Leaving this slightly mad straggley piece of 53B in there for now I enjoy how you can get the stem of an emersed bit to burst out all over with small submerged leaves. My other emersed growth didn't cope with the water level drop. EDIT - Then removed anyway as it was obscuring the general shape and the reds behind.
Here's the before and after maintenance. I should probably get to cleaning the filter at some point. Selling shrimp very occasionally gives me the motivation to do the prefilter (there are generally lots in there) but I've not done the rest of the canister since setting up the tank...
The confessional door thuds behind me and the curtain is drawn back - 'Father, I've been neglecting my tank'
I did clean the pre filter, top up and switch over to clean lily pipes at some point but basically I've done nothing for a good six/eight weeks two of which I was away for.
Found one of my Otos lying crispy on a floating plant. Not sure how that happened or when. Would have thought it could easily wiggle off if it got scared and jumped up by accident. Good news is that I saw three others in a group, so you never know, I still maybe have five of them alive.
It would seem that I'm reaching the end of the glorious no need to fertilize period as I near 1 year since set up. Floating plants are not as prolific, but this is why they are here; deploy the duck weed index! Any feedback welcome!
Down to only one or two tiny red root no-ters (as I like to call them) and the older leaves of the salvinia are brown.
Marsilea carpet is looking pretty meh, effected by the BBA I've been embracing nearby. I pulled up some and going with a Bacopa 'carpet' (planted one stem at a time - it never divides when trimmed for me) for now and hoping to migrate over to mostly parva in time.
The rotala is looking very ropey, neglect combined with the water level getting lower and lower has not been good. I'm a bit skeptical that a dramatic trim would work, but I took a chunk of mess out. Maybe if I replant the non crispy tops, but that is for another day.
Pogostemon similarly didn't enjoy the low water levels and the myriophylum is all but gone. Sad times.
Leaving this slightly mad straggley piece of 53B in there for now I enjoy how you can get the stem of an emersed bit to burst out all over with small submerged leaves. My other emersed growth didn't cope with the water level drop. EDIT - Then removed anyway as it was obscuring the general shape and the reds behind.
Here's the before and after maintenance. I should probably get to cleaning the filter at some point. Selling shrimp very occasionally gives me the motivation to do the prefilter (there are generally lots in there) but I've not done the rest of the canister since setting up the tank...
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Inventory of items found beneath cabinet after 1 year:
- Two wooden beads
- One duplo door
- One small bamboo trumpeter
- One '3'
- One wooden police department front
- Two hairbands (one pink, one black)
- One childs bracelet
- One invitro pot lid
- 1.5 crayons
- One hair clip (gold coloured)
- Small blob of tissue
- One used test strip
- A broken section of CO2 fitting
- One small yellow plastic disc of unknown origin
- One acorn
- One small stick
- One Small piece of wood (possibly cat litter)
- One ragged cushion feather (possibly chewed by said cat)
- Several small fragments of mixed nuts
- Considerable quantities of domestic fluff
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They look really healthy
