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New Home For Shrimp
Water parameters have stabilized for a week now and I did a big water change and clean up of the tank today. I added 6 yellow cherry shrimp, a couple are berried so I hope to see baby shrimps soon.
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First Inhabitants
The tank is still doing great! Added two japanese trapdoor snails today. These two will help me clean up some of the biofilm that has grown on the surface of the hardscape. One more week and i think its ready for shrimp!
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water parameters is great!
water parameter is perfect after just 5 days. reusing old substrate really helped the cycle move quickly. i will give it another week just to be sure but i think the tank is on its way to being finished. water also cleared up nicely!
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Cycle still in progress
the water has cleared up nicely and the cycle is still in progress. i love these smaller tanks! bookcase tanks should be its own category, i love the look in my bookcase. and if you notice that my top bookshelf is bent its because i used to put a tan…
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Rescaped Tank
I had an old tank that i was growing a mangrove in. that tank was not doing well, so instead of trying to fix it, i did a complete tear down and rescape of the tank. i reused the aquasoil, all the plants and hardscape because there is good bacteria l…