Dutch courage
5 months young
I'm happy with the layout, the shape of the individual groups will change accordingly.
Trimmed more than a dozen times I thought it was time to pull it and start again.
marsilea crenata
The plant list from the start
3 x montevidensis
2 x reineckii rosaefolia
2 x 1 2 grow reineckii mini
2 x micranthemum umbrosum
2 x 1 2 grow pogo erectus
2 x pogo helferi
2 x eleocharis parvula ( gone )
1 x 1 2 grow marsilea crenata
2 x hydrocotyle tripartita
2 x rotala boschi ( boschii)
1 x 1 2 rotala bonsai (Armenia)
2 x lobelia cardinalis red
2 x cryptocoryne wendii brown ( gone )
2 x cryptocoryne beckettii petchii
Additions
2 x rotala orange juice
2x rotala rotundafolia
2x Limnophila sessiliflora
1x hygrophilia polysperma
1x enrioculon cinereum
1x h.pinnafitida
Lights
Twinstar 450 ea is on for 7.5 h
AI prime fw is on for 8.5 h with a 30min sunrise and a1 h sunset included ( Note) I have around 2 hours of ambient light before lights on.
Dosing EI
Kno3 8.3 ppm 3.8 g
Kh2po4 1.5 ppm 0.6g
Kso4 7.5 ppm 1g
Dosed 3 x pw for 280L of water
Micros and iron the same
I upped the macros a tad for the rescape of the iwagumi tank, as you may know by now there connect by the sump.
Co2
90 mins before lights on and 90mins before they switch off
Lights off around 7.6 ph
Lights on around 6.3 ph
lime green DC as a quick eyeball but plants say it all.
All still the same more or less.
Fishes.
Amano shrimp were all taken out after 2 months of both tanks. Nothing left for them so rosafolia was on the menu then they took a liking to reineckii mini even with feeding them a healthy amount of greens and dedicated shrimp food. Oh after 3 months of taking them out I still have baby amano somehow, 1 must have been pregnant when i purchase them or they were naughty and pillaged (carnt say as i have read conflicting stories regards fresh water and breeding)
This is what I think I counted over and over.
18- odd galaxy rasboras still happily playing amongst themselves. Flaring, dancing around each other.
Around 18 cory pygmea have split into 2 groups again loving life chilling on the rotala R leaves at the back and the other group hang on the polysperma leaves.
rasbora maculate impossible to count, seem to hang within the h.pinnafitida until feeding time, a few of them hang with the Cory's now and then even mimicking the surface diving for air.
red crystal shrimp seem to be breeding slowly and the red fire sakura are gaining in numbers again after giving 30 away.
12 Moenkhausia costae
New arrivals great schooling fish could not leave them behind, they have balanced the tank out nicely and they seem very sociable.
Going to try a black background just to see if it changes anything.
Update soon as the iwagumi is up next.
Cheerio