Hi,
Ok some up to date piccys. Nothing much has changed except things have grown in some more. The Downai has recovered from its time in my big tank without enough light although is a little paler then i remember it being....
I've tweaked the lights from 3 9w arc pods to 2 11w arcadia plant bulbs for ease of plugging stuff in, plants seem fine with this slight reduction though. Probably helped by the fact these are new bulbs compared to the old 9w's that had a years running on them.
I've moved the filter to the other side as i dont see it from the angle i sit at my computer and i've just tucked the heater in behind it so less visible equiptment overall.
I was away for a week and a bit and left my flatmate in charge of my tanks with little instructions on this one. There was no water change and he only dosed macro's one day and micro's another, no liquid co2. No visible algae outbreak from this tankfully as there were probably enough buffer nutrients in the water from the cut down EI to last the week without bottoming out. I have however noticed some ricca going black in a couple of places.... Hopefully this will not continue now i'm back to normal dosing.
So the pictures .....
1st October - Full Tank Shot
1st October - Front
1st October - Angled View
1st October - Close Up
1st October - Closer Still
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I've been trying some other carpet plants in another project so now have dwarf hair grass and HC growing that i'm tempted to switch into here at some point. For now i'm just happy blissing out in my little iwagumi shrimp world.
Questions and comments greatly appreciated....
Best Regards,
John