Starting my Tank Rehab

[GoneFishing]

Great! Only lost 2 shrimps. Soon here I'm getting more plants.. about 10 more

 

[Homedog98]

Yay!

 

[GoneFishing]

Water test c/w

pH 8.0
NO2 0ppm
NO3 5ppm
NH3/NH4 0ppm

Lost one ghost shrimp, eggs hatched from another, and have a survivor. everything looks great, plants are greener than ever, next on my buy list is a new lighting fixture w/ T5HO lights, and a trimming tool.

 

[GoneFishing]

Went to lfs today, picked up 5 albino cory cats now I have 6 and whitie won't be lonely anymore lol.. On a sad note, I'm short one Fancy Guppy. I looked everywhere, even removed the caves, couldn't find anything, not even remains. I have a feeling when I acted noobish and left the hood open, he jumped and my dogs got to him. Sucks now I'm down to 3 guppies.

 

[Homedog98]

Went to lfs today, picked up 5 albino cory cats now I have 6 and whitie won't be lonely anymore lol.. On a sad note, I'm short one Fancy Guppy. I looked everywhere, even removed the caves, couldn't find anything, not even remains. I have a feeling when I acted noobish and left the hood open, he jumped and my dogs got to him. Sucks now I'm down to 3 guppies.

that's depressing. Are you planning to get more?

 

[GoneFishing]

that's depressing. Are you planning to get more?

Yea I would like to finish this tank by getting roughly 5 more guppies, that would give me 8 total.

 

[GoneFishing]

A few pics from today, both of the shrimp are ghosties and both are berried. I got 6 cory cats total now, I'm sure he is happy to have friends.

 

[Homedog98]

The pleco scared me lol! I just look at the pic and see a big red eye looking up at me! Looks great man, fish and tank wise.

 

[GoneFishing]

Yea it's a good pic, I need to start looking for a decent macro lens for my camera so I can take better close-ups

 

[James_in_MN]

The tank looks good! It looks like you added a few more plants too.

 

[GoneFishing]

Lost some stock yesterday. Woke up to a dead shrimp and a MIA guppy. Found the guppy, guess shrimp pulled it inside the rock hide. Not sure if it was just time, gotta test my water again tonight.

 

[Homedog98]

Lost some stock yesterday. Woke up to a dead shrimp and a MIA guppy. Found the guppy, guess shrimp pulled it inside the rock hide. Not sure if it was just time, gotta test my water again tonight.

Aww, poor guy. Sounds good.

 

[GoneFishing]

Water tests good.
pH 8.0
NitrIte 0ppm
NitrAte 20ppm
Ammo 0ppm

Not sure what cause the loss of a shrimp and a guppy but that's two guppies gone in less than a week..

 

[GoneFishing]

So pics of the tank as of today.