88l planted tank

[chka]

This is my first proper journal - started at the 1st day not several months after as my previous journals 🙂

After catastrophe of Stonehenge, 55l I bought quite cheap 88l tank as replacement. SO today finally planted it. Nothing really fancy just mix of different plants









I probably do not have patience enough - I do not know how people can do hardscape for several weeks. Trying this, trying that... I just could not - I want to do everything as soon as possible 🙂))

Now I need to wait two months or something until plants properly grow up 🙂

and I did not decide yet which fauna I will add here...

 

[chka]

2nd day,

Water cleared:

 

[chka]

Update:
after week I got BGA outbreak:


Treated it with 3 days blackout, Hydrogen peroxide.

Then some hair and beard algae appeard:



Plants finally started grow with good speed.

as for the fauna so far I got

5 otos,
20 neon tetras,
couple of chocolate gouramis,
couple of dwarf blue gouramis,
6 amano shrimps

 

[chka]

update:

blue gouramis gone to another tank for harassing chocolate gouramis.
Chocolate gouramis died anyway for some reason. They are fragile as they wrote about them...
5 dwarf puffers came here from other tank. And one ram fish.

and few photos from today sunset:

 

[AverageWhiteBloke]

Looks really good, well rescued on the algae issues. I started reading and tbought that was going downhill fast next minute great looking tank.

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[chka]

Just a photo update:

 

[Another Phil]

Hi chka,
looks good, I especially like the sunset shots.
cheers phil

 

[chka]

Otocinclus macrospilus:

 

[chka]

Just a video update