the heater? yeah i can put it anywhere, but id prefer to keep it in the middle of the tank as I rarely see it run that often. Maybe... 3-5 max during the day and once or twice during the night? It's winter now so I expect it to be off the majority of the day as it warms up but yeah, where it's at seems to be pretty good if it rarely comes on like that. It doesn't bother me that much and I'm sure as my plants grow in people will barely see that stick of glass. hehehehe
Its actually a new heater, I just returned the other 100W friday because when i took it out to clean it there was rust on the bottom by the rubber. Not gunk... rust... very clearly rust. So that screamed to me that somethign was wrong so Petsmart gave me a new one. My filter seems fine, I checked it for rust as well by the motor part and there was nothing there which is good. but yeaaaah. heheh.
had to do 2 90% WC's before adding my fish cus my nitrates were so darn high LOL I can't get that last.... inch/ two inches of water without sucking up a ton of my sand. but yeah. My poop-machine babie fishies are doing great. the harly's will be a LOT happier when i get the rest of their school next friday wen petsmart gets more fish in.
Idk if I want to up the school of false julii's though or not. theres currently 5, which was the stock I wanted, but peeps were tellin me to add 1 more to bring it to 6... well... I hate even numbers (im weird like that) so if I do get more it would have to be 2 more to bring them to 7, but with my BN there I worry thats a bit too much on the bottom.