Just an update on the tank
After the slight bacterial loss, and lots and lots of water changes, my water stats have been great for a couple weeks or so, and there's been a few additions of fish, and lots of additions of plants lol.
Left side, top of the hill, really starting to fill in. Had to clean up the vallis yesterday, had a ton of run-offs. Would still say that I prefer the italian to the corkscrew. Grows much faster and corckscrew looks a bit messy still.
Right side of the tank, loving the wood still. Looks much better now that the java ferns are finally starting to take off a bit, probably snipped over 10 babies yesterday as well. Still very satisfied with the growth rate of all of the anubias, I wouldn't call them slow growing! It's still a little tricky planting around the wood root, but I think I'm getting better
Anyone know what this plant is?? Crazy what a difference adding one reddish colored plant did. Loving the contrast.
My new pearl gourami, had him/her? for a couple days, really starting to color up beautifully. Very polite, splashes a lot when the lights go out, is that normal? lol
And of course, I have 3 new little polka dots
Been waiting for this for over a year now. They're doing great in the tank, started socializing immediately and aren't quite the little characters
I'll up the numbers to 5 soon, but for now they're doing great!
Edward the bn has tripled in size and doing awesome. Must have been all the diatom slime
AND, as if this update wasn't pic heavy enough, I have a video... only to show another new member of the tank. If anyone had seen the post I put up when i had the bacterial loss, you're aware that we lost "Junky", my pictus, my 3 year old son's favorite fish. It was sad for quite some time. He rejected the idea of getting another Junky from the very start so I was very surprised when we spotted a "whiskery" fish in out LFS the other day, which he insisted he had to have. Upon further inspection, I saw it was a baby Junky
. There was no talking him out of it, and quite frankly, I didn't really try lol. It took a good two days for baby Junky to adjust to being in the new tank, but now he's doing wonderful and is so much fun to have.
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It would look amazing with the stones you've got in there.
On thursday, I had to bring two of them to my lfs bc the other two had paired up and the male was showing some crazy aggression with them. On Friday there were eggs lol. This is their first spawn, and they're doing great if I may say so myself. She kept busy all night, guarding and fanning. The male would come in occasionally and it looked like she was nagging him for sleeping hehehehe....
are there higher expectations from a high-tech tank?! sheesh....
