I know I have been quiet of late - life is just getting in the way. I thought I would do a quick update on my sorority and my boy's NPT.
The 40L Tank with 5 girls and 8 male guppies:
I have been playing around with this tank non stop (last nite was the last time for the next month until I put in the new substrate.) Ive been trimming plants left right and center and finally also got to trim some of the moss.
Currently I dont have pics of the girls cos they wont pose for the camera.
Plants in the tank consist of - Ludwiga Repens, Rotala nanjishan, Rotala colorata, Indian Fern, Chrismas moss and the ferns are a bulbitus something or another Oh and the anubias nana.
Substrate at that point is just a quartz like gravel with 2 Seachem Root tabs. I also dose 1ml Flourish Comprehensive 2 times a week and 1ml Seachem Excel 2 times a week.
Water changes are every 2 weeks at 20% and all my test readings are stable with a ph of 7.4
Then my boy's tank has been rescaped many times, but for the next few months I wont be fiddling with it since it has been entered in a NPT low tech setup compitition (A first for us here in South Africa).(The tank is 30L)
Ozzy very peeved at being bagged before I let him into his new tank.
My baby Ancistrus
New look tank with Seachem flourite black as a substrate.
Ozzy exploring his new home (he loves the plant on the far right - sleeps in it and has built a huge bubble nest above it).
Unfortunately I had found out after I set the tank up that the anubias nana has to be removed since it is a Black list plant here so I am not allowed to use it in the tank. I am considering getting some HM - Heminathus micranthemoides to use as a small foreground plant. I think it will give a nice texture. I am also considering getting 5 neon tetra's for the tank.
The 40L Tank with 5 girls and 8 male guppies:
I have been playing around with this tank non stop (last nite was the last time for the next month until I put in the new substrate.) Ive been trimming plants left right and center and finally also got to trim some of the moss.
Currently I dont have pics of the girls cos they wont pose for the camera.
Plants in the tank consist of - Ludwiga Repens, Rotala nanjishan, Rotala colorata, Indian Fern, Chrismas moss and the ferns are a bulbitus something or another Oh and the anubias nana.
Substrate at that point is just a quartz like gravel with 2 Seachem Root tabs. I also dose 1ml Flourish Comprehensive 2 times a week and 1ml Seachem Excel 2 times a week.
Water changes are every 2 weeks at 20% and all my test readings are stable with a ph of 7.4
Then my boy's tank has been rescaped many times, but for the next few months I wont be fiddling with it since it has been entered in a NPT low tech setup compitition (A first for us here in South Africa).(The tank is 30L)
Ozzy very peeved at being bagged before I let him into his new tank.
My baby Ancistrus
New look tank with Seachem flourite black as a substrate.
Ozzy exploring his new home (he loves the plant on the far right - sleeps in it and has built a huge bubble nest above it).
Unfortunately I had found out after I set the tank up that the anubias nana has to be removed since it is a Black list plant here so I am not allowed to use it in the tank. I am considering getting some HM - Heminathus micranthemoides to use as a small foreground plant. I think it will give a nice texture. I am also considering getting 5 neon tetra's for the tank.