Time of a tank update.
Water Parameters
Ph has been holding stable at 7.6 for the last 5 days despite a large water change. I think that's where it's going to stay for now
Ammonia rose up to 0.5 ppm between 3 days ago and the day before yesterday. Yesterday it dropped back down to 0.25
Nitrite has, in 2 days, gone from 0 to 1.5 to over 5 ppm
Nitrate has, in the same amount of time, gone from 0 to 25 ppm
And, because pictures are worth a thousand words:
The top is ph
The next lines are ammonia and nitrite, in that order
The bottom line is nitrate
Now for the living stuff
All plants seem to be doing fine
The anacharis is sending out roots like crazy and there is some noticeable stalk growth too
The moneywort has some stalk growth and is sending out a couple roots
The anubias hasn't shown any distinctly noticeable growth but it still looks healthy so it may be growing really slowly or I'm missing the growth for some reason
The christmas moss is almost covered with bright green tips of fresh growth
The moss ball seems to be doing okay, a third of its surface is covered with brown patches but the rest seems to have recovered from what I put it through
I have at least 5 or 6 hitchhiker snails that seem to be very happy, none are larger than a head of a pin and I think 2 are rams horns while the others are either mystery, nerite, or pond snails, I'm not sure which.