I just looked over this whole journal and can't believe how much it has changed! Even from the last photo, it looks empty compared to the jungle mess it is now.
I have seriously been neglecting this - to the point where sometimes I forget I even have an aquarium!
Here's what's happened since the last major update:
- Moved the heater to the back
- Added a lot more plants (ages ago) sagittaria, hygrophila cuttings, java ferns - one normal attached to the wood that you can't notice at the back and some narrow floating at the moment, more crypts)
So yeah, I haven't dosed the tank, done a water change - anything apart from feed the fish for at least two months now. Everything seems to be alright, a few dead leaves but the tank is a mess anyway. I don't think there's been any runners but that might just be me not searchign hard enough, although you can see things have grown/filled out a lot.
I have some free time on Saturday, so I'm going to do the first major prune, attach the floating ferns to wood, remove some plants (possibly) like the Hygrophila, Sagittaria. and just generally have a tidy up. Then it's water change time and I'm going to start dosing again to see what happens. I'm thinking of rehoming some or all of the fish too, just so I can get somethin that'll intrest me more. I might also remove the central peice of wood to allow things to really jungleise, take off and get a bit more room in there. Oh yeah, and get a new light
the current one looks a bit dim to me.
So yeah, I'll take some before and after photos on Saturday!
That's all for now.