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February 9, 2005
Renovations...
So I made my weekly trip out to Absolutely Fish tonight and returned home with:
• 3 cherry shrimp
• 3 bunches of baby's tears
• 1 small anubis
• 1 potted crypt wendii
• 1 green/white sandy
Prior to adding them to the 5.5 gal I decided to take a water reading to check on ammonia, nitrite and nitrate levels. Last time I took one was about half a week ago maybe? Anyway, surprised to see that levels of all 3 were still zero across the board. Usually there should be at least some nitrate but I still wasn't seeing anything. I guess this Fritz-Zyme Turbo Start 700 that I picked up at The Pet Shanty really works cause I didn't see much of an ammonium spike at all since I first started this tank.
Anyhoo, I took out the patch of glosso that I previously put in cause it was starting to look a bit raggedy and I figured I would start anew with a non-potted version the next time around. The salvinia is really growing like crazy; I started out with 4 floaters and now I think there's a bit over double that amount. Combined with the hornworts that were deceptively tall, this tank's getting a lot of floating plant cover. The shrimp are loving it though. It's pretty amusing to see one of the cherries hanging upside down from a salvinia root and getting whirled round and round when the salvinia floats into my filters outtake.
I also cleaned up the big patch of algae that was still mucking up the bottom left half of the tank. Oddly enough, AFTER I finished cleaning it up and getting the tank all topped off again, the oto and pleco come mosying along into the area. They should've gotten to it before I cleaned the darn thing. =p
Anyway, gotta take new pictures of this tank soon.
Posted by ronin at February 9, 2005 12:49 AM