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Fish were just added last week! We added harlequin rasboras, julii corydoras, threadfin rainbowfish, more CPDs, more cherry shrimps, and bamboo shrimp. I maybe overestimated how many rasboras I needed, I got 100. I want to eventually add 10 -15 pearl gourami as a final touch. Owner also wants some scarlet badis. Here is some footage of the fish. I just wish the rasboras would always school like in the first shot, they were schooling because I was doing a water change. I may have to throw an arowana in here to scare them lol.
Fish have been doing good, I occasionally pull out a fry from the tank so they must be happy. Shrimps also breeding a lot but they've unfortunately been hiding more now since adding the fish. Otocinclus nice and fat.
I have had a few issues with plants but I think most resolved. I tried reducing micros for a time down to 0.075 ppm Fe per week from CSM + B. But after a few weeks I started noticing these brown/gray marks on my old frogbit leaves, new leaves also looked a little yellow. Not sure what exactly caused it or if it is for sure related to micros but it seems to have resolved since increasing micros back to 0.20 ppm Fe per week from CSM+B.
I also think I've resolved these pinholes I had on my hygrophila pinnatifidas. I was stubborn on thinking it was due to potassium since I was dosing 10 ppm K per week and I figured that was surely enough. But since increasing potassium to 20 ppm per week the pinnatifidas look much better. Could there be a reason I need this much K? I realize this is a common dosing amount but I thought K was the least used macro. Or are pinnatifidas just unique in that they need a lot more K than other plants?
The amazon sword has continued to not do good. Though I think I'm starting to see improvement since increasing K? Not sure yet so will give it more time. Its strange because all the other sword varieties are thriving, just not the amazon. I may just try giving it root tabs. This is how bad it got.
The rotala blood red I brought from home has a thing where half the stems stunt and the other half grows like normal. My rotala blood red at home used to do this, but ever since replacing the substrate with aquasoil and being to busy to dose any fertilizers they've been growing without stunting. I wonder if it's the micros.
The last few weeks I've been experimenting with not dosing any nitrates to slow plant a growth a bit, and get a little extra coloration on some plants. Plants have continued to grow well, the red root floaters have begun to get a slight tint of pink but nothing crazy. Frogbit still looks healthy. I was going to begin to dose a small amount again just to have a baseline, but I will wait a bit just to see how much nitrates all the new fish contribute.
It may be too early tell, but I feel like the GSA has been coming down, but it could be either because of increased health from K, shading the front a little, reduced nitrates, or from some carbon I recently added.
I've been having fun growing some terrestrial plants above the tank. Goal is to cover that whole wall in plants.
This pothos developed a very thick vine.
I was looking at old pictures of the tank and I didn't realize how much the ferns, anubias and crypts have grown. They've gotten massive, maybe even a little too big lol. The sword in front of the wood got a growth spurt recently. Maybe I'm just coping but I kinda like the spice the BBA on the rock gives.
August 14, 2023
Most recent tank shot from April 7, 2024
Fish have been doing good, I occasionally pull out a fry from the tank so they must be happy. Shrimps also breeding a lot but they've unfortunately been hiding more now since adding the fish. Otocinclus nice and fat.
I have had a few issues with plants but I think most resolved. I tried reducing micros for a time down to 0.075 ppm Fe per week from CSM + B. But after a few weeks I started noticing these brown/gray marks on my old frogbit leaves, new leaves also looked a little yellow. Not sure what exactly caused it or if it is for sure related to micros but it seems to have resolved since increasing micros back to 0.20 ppm Fe per week from CSM+B.
I also think I've resolved these pinholes I had on my hygrophila pinnatifidas. I was stubborn on thinking it was due to potassium since I was dosing 10 ppm K per week and I figured that was surely enough. But since increasing potassium to 20 ppm per week the pinnatifidas look much better. Could there be a reason I need this much K? I realize this is a common dosing amount but I thought K was the least used macro. Or are pinnatifidas just unique in that they need a lot more K than other plants?
The amazon sword has continued to not do good. Though I think I'm starting to see improvement since increasing K? Not sure yet so will give it more time. Its strange because all the other sword varieties are thriving, just not the amazon. I may just try giving it root tabs. This is how bad it got.
The rotala blood red I brought from home has a thing where half the stems stunt and the other half grows like normal. My rotala blood red at home used to do this, but ever since replacing the substrate with aquasoil and being to busy to dose any fertilizers they've been growing without stunting. I wonder if it's the micros.
The last few weeks I've been experimenting with not dosing any nitrates to slow plant a growth a bit, and get a little extra coloration on some plants. Plants have continued to grow well, the red root floaters have begun to get a slight tint of pink but nothing crazy. Frogbit still looks healthy. I was going to begin to dose a small amount again just to have a baseline, but I will wait a bit just to see how much nitrates all the new fish contribute.
It may be too early tell, but I feel like the GSA has been coming down, but it could be either because of increased health from K, shading the front a little, reduced nitrates, or from some carbon I recently added.
I've been having fun growing some terrestrial plants above the tank. Goal is to cover that whole wall in plants.
This pothos developed a very thick vine.
I was looking at old pictures of the tank and I didn't realize how much the ferns, anubias and crypts have grown. They've gotten massive, maybe even a little too big lol. The sword in front of the wood got a growth spurt recently. Maybe I'm just coping but I kinda like the spice the BBA on the rock gives.
August 14, 2023
Most recent tank shot from April 7, 2024
