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Warts and more warts, but progressing:

I found the easyiet way to catch shrimp in a heavily planted, is with the thin end of the algae scaper guide them into a small net, had to catch loads and post last year. Nice rili by the way.
 
Ignoring food is completely normal behaviour. If the food is hard and dry they may come back later when it's had time to moisten up a bit to make it easier for them to wrestle chunks of it, I have found pellet foods break down really quickly, the Ebi Dama I'm using is longer lasting and doesn't break apart like the pellets, it frequently gets ignored but does get eaten. Even fresh foods will get ignored, but will eventually get nibbled on.

When you have greater numbers in the tank the easy to find food sources become scarcer and the shrimp can get very hungry, so when you put food in there's a bit of a squabble to get at it, like you've seen in my tanks. If the shrimp run out of easy food sources and you don't feed them they'll eat the wood hard scape!
 
Getting a lot of growth there Rob, I would do a little bit of trim now as when the eggs hatch you likely won't see the fry as they are tiny and almost completely transparent, it's very easy to accidentally lift them out the tank on trimmings, hopefully you'll get the numbers to not have to worry about that too much!
 
Hello there X3NiTH,
I am saving all my trimmings to plant in the new tank, in a plastic shoe box, but it won't be ready to plant for over a week. Those tall micranthemums monte carlo on the left side, I hope to lay on their sides and see if I can get some carpet. Also have a nice piece of DW I want to apply fissidens to with thread. Just for looks I'd like to put a thin layer of gravel with a few pebbles over a portion of the Amazonia. What do you think?
Good pearling this afternoon:
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Well, too late for the trimming saw both rillis, nether one berried, so the fry must be on the loose, somewhere in the jungle. Just have to wait until they're visible. How long is that do you think?
Here are both the orange ones:
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Well, tried to plant in ADA Amazonia in the new tank and it reminded me of one of those carnival games where you can't win. I lowered the water level to the substrate and tried to plant in the mush. As soon as I gently added water the plants began to float out nothing seems to hold them in place, no matter how deep you push them. I finally put some lead around bunches of Ludwegia, but it looks like s__t don't know what to do, so am going to leave it for today and see if I have any new ideas tomorrow. A gravel overlay (or gravel and sand) is beginning to look better and better...
Here's the mess:
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