Ah I see haha. Is the ehiem on a spray bar when it's ripping the plants up?
Yup with the spray bar on it was tearing plants out of the substrate. I think not having filtration for close to a month didn't help the situation.
UPDATE
Firstly my apologies if for the blurriness in some of these pics. It looks like algae on the glass but is some type of reflection amplified by the settings. I cleaned the glass several times just to make sure. Anyways, full tank shot.
The dead white hair algae was too entwined with the monte carlo so I had to cut back a lot of it. I ended up with about a net full this is the half way point
Edit* I played with the iso settings and it seems that this is causing the blurry effect. I suck at aquarium photos lol.
I have this section of the scape complete even though it's yet to grow in,
Any help with the buces id? They changed leaf shape slightly and as fishenthusiast predicted starting changing colour.
Some observations: The Buces arrived damaged the last pic shows one with holes in the leaf but the holes were larger when I first put them in. Normally I would cut it instead of having the plant use resources trying to repair it but being completely new to the species I decided to see what happens. One of the buces doesn't seem to be adjusting well. No characteristic white spots and root growth appears weaker than the other three.
34 neons created 10ppm of nitrate in 8 days? Also while they appeared more albino coloured they seem to show a different colouration in certain areas/height/depths in the tank. From a distance they look white, at the top of the tank more red in tail and at the lower parts silver.
