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Updated Pics

Updated pictures after stocking and some plants dying off and some plants added more of and starting to spread and grow out as well as trimmed

Permanent plants in Kai’s tank

There are 8 plants in Kai’s tank: 3 are small and very near the bottom. They have small curly leaves. 3 are bamboo and 2 are tall with long almond shaped leaves.

So many baby plants!!

I have so many baby plants I have made a nursery. I attach them to gravel then put them in a rock with just the right conditions for them to thrive. I can’t wait for them to all get bigger, so I can m

Scape in natural light 💚

This little underwater forest lit up by the afternoon sun streaming in through the windows

Flowering bucephalandra

Second time a bucephalandra blooms

Fins getting worse while eye better

Start to have some tears in the fins? Perhaps because her immune system is shot she's getting hit by opportunistic bacteria. I am really trying

A mostly finished aquascape

I’m starting to really like this little tank, simple though it is. The sand cap is finally in place, the wood has settled. I’m just waiting for it to cycle again due to the big changes disrupting the

Doesn’t want to go

Despite me removing as much of the roots and stems from hygrophila pinnatifida it appears that it wasn’t enough. A couple tiny leaves sprouted from what i thought were dead roots. I’m not sure if i wi

Baby plants forming!

I’ve recently noticed multiple baby plants forming on my El Niño and Java ferns! I’m so excited to finally have signs of healthy plants, and get a few free plants.

Right color, wrong parents

I have a red shrimp that came from Cory Cove. It was born from blue velvet parents, but I thought it would be okay to move it to this yellow/orange tank since the oranges came from yellows breeding wi

Blue-razz mutation shrimp

I noticed a large number of red/orange babies. While trying to take a picture of one tiny orange baby, i noticed that some blue shrimp had red patches, and little by little I noticed more and more. Th

Fixing things, making things better

I was finally able to fix the sand in front where that 3d printed cavern is. A couple days ago I had to remove it and it’s almost impossible to fix once you do. I just pulled about 50% of the water ou

Habrosus moved in

Moved 5 cory habrosus into the tank a month ago. They have acclimated very nicely and there seems to be no signs of barbell erosion (a recurring problem with this group). They are very skittish and ha

It was too laborious

Trimming all the different plants that grow in different rates made it hard to keep it looking nice. Decided to make a wall with mermaid weed to the sides and a small portion of rotala in de middle. G

A Couple Small Additions

Pulled the quarantined frogbit and added it to the tank following today's water change. Floated a pair of airline tube corrals to keep the frogbit away from the pumps. We anchored our java fern babies

Got Silkie

Omgggg I was so concerned bc he wasn’t moving while I was acclimating the temp in his travel bag to the temp in my tank and he perked right up when I placed him in the tank!! He’s so cute and I love h

The pop eye got much worse before better

The pop eye on the right eye started to perforate Tuesday night (9-9-26). Did a huge water change, changed to kanaplex and have been mixing it with food too. She seems better today (9-11-26). Still si

Big Relief!

The blob on Pep's gill fell off yesterday! Pulled the thing and put it under the microscope. Looks very much like a fuzzy blob of fungus. The ostracods were all over it. Gills look great tonight thoug

Silkie

He’s coming soon this week I think in two days and I’m so excited I tested the water before hand and I’m wondering if it’s good enough and if my tank is good enough

New plants and big trim!

Did some really thorough trimming of stem plants and drastically thinned out Java fern. Added 2 Buce, and a Anubias Nana Pinto. Also too 4-5 cuttings of Anubias Nama Petite from main plant and spread

Frogbit is Here

The American frogbit we ordered is here, huge, and healthy! Doing a 24 hour alum soak, after which we'll quarantine in Saturday's tank water. Don't want snails in the axolotl tank! Noticed some lighte

Update on the tank

Pothos is sending roots down at the top of the tank and tiger lotus plant is doing fantastic. Rotala and Ludwigia are growing great and just waiting for them to grow a little taller before I trim them

Pep's a Boy?!

During today's poop clean up, we noticed clear to white gelatinous masses in Pep's tank. Concerned that it could be fungus, we did some googling and I believe these are spermatophores! Cloaca bulge an

Thriving