Hi everyone,
It’s been a long time that I didn’t update my journal but it doesn’t mean nothing happened since the last update
Bad things and good things happened.
Let's start with the bad: I had to remove two embers from the tank. They were really poorly, stressed and one of them got whit spots, the other one had something weird behind his dorsal. I decided that I really need to get more plants for the fish to feel safer.I also decided that the main focus point for the scape would be the front, and that I won't try for now to make a scape that looks good from the front and from the rear. This made everything easier for both hardscape and planting.
The good is that the scape looks much better now, and the fish look happier and they don't seem to be stressed anymore.
I also invested in an Aquamedic co2 reactor and no more mist
I had enough of this fizzy water and the fish too. It was so obvious that as soon as the co2 shut down the fish were more active.
I also realised that the co2 bubbles were giving me wrong readings of the DC as those bubbles were caught in it easily. Now, I've got no mist and the drop checkers are both green/yellow.
I have changed the pipe work again so it works better with hardscape and I went with two "half" spray bars along the back glass.
It seems to work well and fish have a bit more peace than before. Just need to make them in acrylic and get some nice transparent suction cups and clips...
The updated plant list is:
-Hair grass
-Hydrocotyle tripartita
-Proserpinaca palustris
-Didiplis diandra
-Fissiden moss
-Pogostemon erectus
-Rotala rotundifolia
-Rotala macrandra
-Alternanthera reineckii "pink"
-Hygrophila pinnatifida
-Vallisneria spiralis
-Vallisneria spiralis red
-Echinodorus bleheri
-Crypts (various)
-Aponogeton ulvaceus
Here are some pictures before and during rescaping and planting:
It's now time for the water change, I will put more picture after that
Cheers,
Manu