Picture time.
It's starting to start to look better. I didn't like the look of the sand. It was also proving to be a pain with water changes. So I tossed on some gravel on top of it.
The background is temporary and will be replaced with a solid black one once the plants are more established. The wife objects to a black one until then. This is the old one that I had on the goldfish tank.
On the right side is one of the swords that I had in there earlier. It's pretty straggly now but its bloomed and produced plants in there before.
The log is pretty funny looking but is still producing bubbles as it slowly submerges. It's getting pretty close to staying down. Sometime in the next six months I imagine it will stay down.
Here's the C. tropica in the center. I really like the variation of leaf color in this plant. As the plants are getting established the brown algae is a problem but it's decreasing. I'll do a water change and scrub stuff off today and there will be less next week as the plants out compete the algae.
Then I decided since I haven't lost any fish in the QT tank they were in in two weeks and they come from a trusted LFS I tossed these guy's in... LF pearl & Zebra Danio's. They are very happy.
I also tossed in a little Long-fin albino BN pleco with them. He's only about 1.5 inches long now but he's in love with the log. Cleaned off a chunk of the brown algae that I let grow on the log for him last night. He's hiding somewhere right now sleeping off his big meal.
I've also found out that I managed to import some pond snails into the tank. They do a pretty good job on the algae so I'm not that heartbroken. If I every want to get rid of them I can toss in some loaches.
It's starting to start to look better. I didn't like the look of the sand. It was also proving to be a pain with water changes. So I tossed on some gravel on top of it.
The background is temporary and will be replaced with a solid black one once the plants are more established. The wife objects to a black one until then. This is the old one that I had on the goldfish tank.
On the right side is one of the swords that I had in there earlier. It's pretty straggly now but its bloomed and produced plants in there before.
The log is pretty funny looking but is still producing bubbles as it slowly submerges. It's getting pretty close to staying down. Sometime in the next six months I imagine it will stay down.
Here's the C. tropica in the center. I really like the variation of leaf color in this plant. As the plants are getting established the brown algae is a problem but it's decreasing. I'll do a water change and scrub stuff off today and there will be less next week as the plants out compete the algae.
Then I decided since I haven't lost any fish in the QT tank they were in in two weeks and they come from a trusted LFS I tossed these guy's in... LF pearl & Zebra Danio's. They are very happy.
I also tossed in a little Long-fin albino BN pleco with them. He's only about 1.5 inches long now but he's in love with the log. Cleaned off a chunk of the brown algae that I let grow on the log for him last night. He's hiding somewhere right now sleeping off his big meal.
I've also found out that I managed to import some pond snails into the tank. They do a pretty good job on the algae so I'm not that heartbroken. If I every want to get rid of them I can toss in some loaches.
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So much room to have some nice schooling fish are you getting Rainbows? I'd get a school of dwarf chain loaches, love those guys. Good luck looks super.
