Yet not realy very much to show..
But it still goes ok, happily growing, tho had to add some extra pottasium and traces, that was my best guess. Still have the idea i lak some magnesium, got to get me some epsom this week.
But the family is happy, thats most important..
The male stickleback is coloring up nicely, but hard to get on picture.. I guess i have to try again one night with artificial light..
But this is the dirtiest tank i ever had.. At first it had some strange dusty algae bloom.. Attaching to everything, but if brushed it fell apart to dust, like tiny coton flakes floating around. And 5 minutes later it accumulated all again to whatever forming filamentous strings. It kept comming and comming, but his is about over now and now the diatoms are comming it seems, the black rocks are brown. Till now i did about 2 waterchanges a day.. I guess all that caused a little fert difficiencies. Plant sare growing, but i expected more of it.. Only thing growing like crazy are the snails.. Never seen snails grow so fast, tripling in size in 6 weeks time..
But!! The water is clear.. So still have time, summer yet didn;t start.. Oh, we had a little heavy heatwave, a few days over 34 degrees.. 2 female sticklebacks didn't survive it.
They were to weak..
The unidentified Nymphoides is slowly comming.. I realy wonder what it is.. Kinda like the red marbled leaf it has.. Hopefully it'l grow on and flower.
The submersed growth all is doing fine..
Also the mosses in the barrel are having a party.. Why doesn't it grow so fast in my tanks?? Don't ask what it all is.. I know some fontanilles and Taxyphyllum is in there and a lot..
The Potamogeton gayi is realy going mental.. It realy likes daylight.. Aslo did cut off some flower stacks from the echinodorus and threw in the water.
After a week or so it looks like this. Every elbow the flowers were developes leaves and roots. So i will be having a bud loed of echinodorus plantlets after the summer..
Some random shots from the rest of the (wildlife) garden..
One of my all time favorites, the Antirrhunim.. Our common name is Loinsmouth.. So that is why i decided to put this flower on the grave of my previous cat i burried in the garden few years back. And i haven't seens this plant for a few years and this year it popped out again on it's own..