dapellegrini
Aquarium Advice FINatic
It has been a while since I posted here, thought it might be worth an update... I have been serious neglecting my 72 gallon for the past several months, except for a couple bouts of collectoritis where I needed to find more room to add plants... I have mostly been working on my new SW nano - another big learning curve for me:
http://www.nano-reef.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=132143
At some point I added some Taiwan Moss and Riccia and then just kind of let it all go wild. Interesting how little pieces of riccia have wedged into areas of moss, growing on top of clover with Ranunculus , HM and other plants all kind of growing in a big mess of plants. I do regularly remove leaves from the lace plant (maybe 50 leaves a week) and have started to trim the two stem plants that remain in the tank. Anyways, here are a ton of photos from a few minutes ago. I kinda like the "mounds" idea, and find it interesting how this kind of happened by itself. Not super clean, but hey, super low maintenance has to count for something!
Is this a yellow shrimp? I don't remember ever adding any ???
Here is one of my newest additions hangin out in the mess of plants. I think there is some needle-leaf java fern in there too...
All of my otos hang out together in the corner. You can see some of there here:
and the glass cat's like to hover around in the shadows:
The Sidthimunki's think it is time to eat:
One of my latest plant additions (you can see that I have had to resort to planting things on top of other things ;D )
And a bunch more shots to make the thread that much more interesting...
I forgot to mention the Blyxa has also gone out of control... not very attractive from the side .. I have a male and female dario dario couple that really like it though
Here are some picks of the Dario Dario's in and around their house of wild blyxa:
http://www.nano-reef.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=132143
At some point I added some Taiwan Moss and Riccia and then just kind of let it all go wild. Interesting how little pieces of riccia have wedged into areas of moss, growing on top of clover with Ranunculus , HM and other plants all kind of growing in a big mess of plants. I do regularly remove leaves from the lace plant (maybe 50 leaves a week) and have started to trim the two stem plants that remain in the tank. Anyways, here are a ton of photos from a few minutes ago. I kinda like the "mounds" idea, and find it interesting how this kind of happened by itself. Not super clean, but hey, super low maintenance has to count for something!
Is this a yellow shrimp? I don't remember ever adding any ???
Here is one of my newest additions hangin out in the mess of plants. I think there is some needle-leaf java fern in there too...
All of my otos hang out together in the corner. You can see some of there here:
and the glass cat's like to hover around in the shadows:
The Sidthimunki's think it is time to eat:
One of my latest plant additions (you can see that I have had to resort to planting things on top of other things ;D )
And a bunch more shots to make the thread that much more interesting...
I forgot to mention the Blyxa has also gone out of control... not very attractive from the side .. I have a male and female dario dario couple that really like it though
Here are some picks of the Dario Dario's in and around their house of wild blyxa: