No algae but we do get weeds in the garden. I’m trying to look upon aquascaping as simply a miniature form of water gardening in many respects.
Yes, t12 bulbs, murky tanks with undergravel filters, Eheim gear being the unaffordable and unchallenged pinnacle of excellence ....to a 13yr old, plastic plants, gravel substrates, community or species tanks, Red Tailed Sharks and Tiger Loaches, everyone wanting Piranha, Vallis melting in the corner somewhere, slate caves, massive seperate ballasts for the lights with starters that blew once a month and hummed, rotting condensation soaked sheet metal hoods and plastic corrugated plastic cover glass’, stick-on dodgy cable tidies with a rubbish sprung switch at either end, dodgy silicon joints and those tanks with oversized and unloved huge Oscars and Pacu’s lurking in leaky tanks at the back of the fish shop. A wall of intriguing, colourful packets and boxes behind the counter containing who-knew-what exciting product to fix who-knows-what problem.
Seemingly every other fish name containing Axelrod/Axelrodi in it. Books on a stand in the corner of the shop about fishkeeping. Your mates uncle Dave that blew the monthly family budget on maintaining a ten foot Cichlid tank that no one liked including the Cichlids. Ah yes, the 80’s.
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