65g FW Journal

[Delphinus]

Fast forward to April, and here is the tank now..

Couple pieces of Mopani driftwood, some plants, and some clean up crew.

Full tank shot..


Left side..


Right side..


Current stocking list.. Plants:
Lagarosiphon major ("Oxygen weed") (note - may also be Elodea crispa)
Hygrophila difformis ("water wisteria")
Bacopa monneri ("water hissop" or "moneywort")
Echinodorus muricatus ("compact sword")
Lilaeopsis brasiliensis ("Brazillian micro sword")
Vallisneria spiralis (possibly var. tortissima - "corkscrew val")
Crytocoryne wendtii
Anubias nana
Vesicularia dubyana (Java moss)

Fish:
2 Otocinclus sp. cats - Otocats
1 Sturisoma nigrirostrum - Farlowella cat
3 Crossocheilus siamensis - Siamese algae eaters

Various hitchhiking snails, some look like ramshorns ..

Also bought some Malaysian Trumpet Snails to help with substrate turnover.

Need some more ground cover and then I'm hoping in the next couple weeks I'll be able to move over my clown loaches, butterfly loach and bristlenose plec from my 30g.

[Delphinus]

I appear to have some FW hydroids in there. Not sure what to make of this..

[Fish]

Tony that is a beautiful tank. Really nice work on the aquascaping and placement of your plants.

... I still feel so intimidated at the thought of planted tanks...

- Chad

[Delphinus]

Thanks Chad! I'm trying to have some fun with this tank. Hopefully once the plants settle in, the layering will show a little more (I'm trying to keep the taller plants in the back, low-lying ones more in the front). The first few plants I moved in are showing signs of new growth so that's got me excited.

I need to find something that eats hair algae though, you can't see it in the pics but the microsword (the grass like plant in front) has hair algae growing in between. It's really delicate stuff so manual removal seems to mean "manually removing the plant as well."

Plus, getting some fish that like to come out during the DAY might be nice. It looks like a fish-less tank setup in the pictures .. but you should see them all come out after the lights turn off. Flurry of activity at night..

[Delphinus]

Full tank shot, May 8:


Moved over my UFO (aka Hillstream loach, butterfly loach) and 2 clown loaches over on Sunday. Last fish to be moved over from the soon-to-be-taken-down 30g is my bristlenose plec, pending her caudal fin healing up (treating the old tank with Melafix .. my whole upstairs now smells like Eucalyptus or Tea Tree or whatever that stuff is made of..). She is a bit large though so I haven't quite decided whether I should be selling her to a new home once she's all healed up.

The other additions were 5 Ameca splendens to help keep hair algae in check. (Thanks to TheGr8Blade for those! )