Okay, so this is my first 5.5 NPT. After 3 hours it's finally done!!! Whoo!!!
Plants:
Micro sword
Banana Lilly
Wisteria
Cardimine
Mint Charlie
Anubia
Anachars
Getting some duckweed next week! Yay! (along with more wisteria, hornwort, and money wort, most of which will be going into a 3 gal that I'll be setting up next week)
Gonna wait a day before I show it to Nova, the water still has a little clearing up to do, and it needs to get to the right temp of course!
Critters!:
Nova
MTS
Ghost shrimp (Coming soon, probably next week or maybe even this weekend!)
It's a little messy looking, and the photo is blurry but I like it all the same
Before you put anything in there make sure you test for results. Sometimes if the plants aren't yours or are use to different parameters they wil melt or adjust and not suck up much ammonia. Happened to me. Just do lots of water changes as there is lots of nutrients in the water, algae can take over at this point so be careful.
I've had the plants in QT for a week in my conditioned tap water, so I'm not too worried, the only ones that ever gave me melt issues were the anacharis which have sprouted new healthy growths that I am using in the new tank, the biggest one is roughly 4 inches long.
I'm going to be doing a couple 50-25%s a week until the tank stabilizes more. I'm not too worried about algae, it happens and is natural. If anything the shrimps and snail can feast on it to their heart's delight. The duckweed shipped yesterday so when I get it I'll QT it for a bit and then throw it in, I've heard it out competes algae.
And thank you for the complement The columns are one of the most attractive decorations for a tank that I've found, so I'm really excited about it ^^
Yeah, that's the cardamine, I love the way it looks too
UPDATE:
Just added Nova, I didn't know it was possible for a fish to be so happy! he's swimming every where, looking at absolutely every thing and flaring up a storm!! He even colored up brighter! xD I'm so excited for him <3 love the little guy too much for my own good xD
Yeah I'm super happy for him, he's been through a lot and deserves a nice home after living in a 1 gal QT tank for a month. He had really bad aggressive fin rot for a few weeks until I could get rid of it, and then got frustrated with his surroundings and took a few nips out of his tail D:
Oh well now he has a good home and toys and plants to play with and protect xD
Thank you, both of you and yes, I will post update pics soon. I agree about the duckweed, I have really high hopes that it will look quite nice ^^
I QT'd the plants in a 3 gal bucket with conditioned tap water and a filter, though I'm sure the filter wasn't needed. All the plants were in the same bucket and I just watched for melt or anything "weird" I don't really know a lot about aquatic plants, I'm still learning, but I learn fast
So here are some Day 2 pictures with Nova in his new home frolicking around and having fun. He's even started a tiny bubble nest but it's REALLY tiny xD I don't think he knows how to do it lol
Sorry about the poor quality and the spots on the glass, haven't cleaned it yet as I was at work all day. The last picture I just threw in because it was kinda cute.
He's recovering from fin rot, so his fins are a bit raggedy
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