Been more than a year since I posted anything. Life has been busy and I have been more active on FB groups than forums just for ease of it. Anyways I hope to keep this journal updated frequently.
I am running 10 tanks, 2 emersed bins since I bought my house last year and I’ll try to capture all of them in this journal. However I’ll probably keep it to select few tanks of interest in future posts.
Let’s start this post my least attended tanks because there won’t be too many updates on them.
These are my 4x10g tanks. 3 are shrimp tanks and 1 is pencil fish tank which I got for a deal for my future tank. It will get some plants soon. I wanted to play with sand only substrate so this is my chance
Another fish only tank is panda loach tank. This used to be my display tank that many have seen on my journals. I like panda loaches and will continue to keep them separate. Hope to find ways to breed them.
This is one of my 2 office tanks. Its a shrimp only tank with some mosses. Trying my hand at scaping.
The mosses here grow easy and I have about 4 different types in there.
This is my newest low tech tank. It’s substrate starts with Flourite, followed by old eco complete, the old Amazonia soil and some Flourite sand, and finally Africana. The reason for this substrate layers was because I broke down a few tanks and combined them into this 40b.
The right back corner is a ton of needle leaf java fern I got from Tom. And front is a good amount of buces which I also got from Tom and some others which I bought from many others.
The tank has Rotala Japan Red, Rotala Blood Red in the back, both of which are not at its optimal but growing well. They used to look better in CO2 injected tanks. I have not done any WC on it since I set it up 3 months ago. The nitrate levels are about 15-20ppm and plants are enjoying it. I recently added some Pantanal to see how it does without CO2 in this tank. The plant also has a lot of red root floaters so they help keep nitrate in check.
Remaining tanks in next post.
I am running 10 tanks, 2 emersed bins since I bought my house last year and I’ll try to capture all of them in this journal. However I’ll probably keep it to select few tanks of interest in future posts.
Let’s start this post my least attended tanks because there won’t be too many updates on them.
These are my 4x10g tanks. 3 are shrimp tanks and 1 is pencil fish tank which I got for a deal for my future tank. It will get some plants soon. I wanted to play with sand only substrate so this is my chance
Another fish only tank is panda loach tank. This used to be my display tank that many have seen on my journals. I like panda loaches and will continue to keep them separate. Hope to find ways to breed them.
This is one of my 2 office tanks. Its a shrimp only tank with some mosses. Trying my hand at scaping.
The mosses here grow easy and I have about 4 different types in there.
This is my newest low tech tank. It’s substrate starts with Flourite, followed by old eco complete, the old Amazonia soil and some Flourite sand, and finally Africana. The reason for this substrate layers was because I broke down a few tanks and combined them into this 40b.
The right back corner is a ton of needle leaf java fern I got from Tom. And front is a good amount of buces which I also got from Tom and some others which I bought from many others.
The tank has Rotala Japan Red, Rotala Blood Red in the back, both of which are not at its optimal but growing well. They used to look better in CO2 injected tanks. I have not done any WC on it since I set it up 3 months ago. The nitrate levels are about 15-20ppm and plants are enjoying it. I recently added some Pantanal to see how it does without CO2 in this tank. The plant also has a lot of red root floaters so they help keep nitrate in check.
Remaining tanks in next post.