Did some WC and cleaning to day and thought it might be time for some updates.
I changed a bit and took out all the carpet hair grass and Monte carlo. I kinda didn't like it anymore and this tank is so cramped up it was a pain in the but to maintain it. Tank to small or to large hands, anyway it's out and i like it a lot beter.
Also the HC that was growing emersed on the wood in the right back corner is taken away. It now reveals the little Buce that was overgrowen by the hc for more than a year. It is the same age and kind as the large buce in the middle..
Remarkable it survived for so long completely hidden and overgrown and it grew a fat little rizhome and just few little leaves.
The echinodurus is unstoppable, it keeps sheding old and growing new leaves and keeps happily flowering in the same rate. Also a remarkable hardy and vertile plant.
The pogostemon stellatus is going completely mental and growing a bit out of proportion, never expected it to grow so large.
But whats intersting is the new growth it is forming at it's base at the water surface. Here you see some new emersed and bellow it still some submersed growth. The submersed growth is not from the mother stem, this is rooted into the substrate. Whats already emersed i going to trim in time to get a better proportioned denser shrub above the tank..
This tank is about to near it second year.
And changed a lot over this time.. It actualy changed enough to try to keep it running and see how all that changed is going to turn out.
I shot from above for once without the lily blocking all the view.. No idea actualy what happened with lily.. She stopped growing floating leaves and sheded all the old ones.. Now is bussy making very tiny submersed leaves close to the substrate at the time.No idea what she has in store for me and if it ever comes back.