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Originally Posted by Prettyhead
The rocks are a nice addition. It gives it some more depth. Looks like it is coming along nicely.
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Thanks. One of my snow whites has claimed the area under the rock to the right of the big one. I made a little cave with those rocks, but that fish went and dug out a lot of sand under it to make a nice cave for itself.
I'm actually kind of disappointed. When I had nothing in the tank, and even when there were just a few plants, the fish were not agressive at all. Now that the rocks are in the tank, they're chasing each other around (no fin/scale damage that I can see) a lot, and they've suddenly decided that they don't like me having those corkscrew vals in the tank - they keep pulling them up while I'm at work.
I'm also not quite sure what's going on with my plants right now. The anacharis are still growing like weeds, but the tips of some leaves are turning brown, and I'm getting roots shooting out of the side of the plants near the top. I'm starting to think that maybe filter sand + laterite might not be as good as something like eco-complete would be - which is disappointing, because I'm going to need a little over 200lbs of eco in my 125 ($$$), whereas 200lbs of filter sand is like $40. A couple of my swords' leaves are starting to curl, and I'm not really getting any new growth on the parts I trimmed.
Java fern looks good though. I need to get some fishing line or some decent way to attach it to the rocks though, right now I just have it kind of sandwiched between two rocks to hold it there.
I'm glad I'm using this tank as a way to get myself used to things before I jump into the 125. The 125 won't be ready for quite some time anyway, as I have to build a stand and canopy, buy lights, substrate, pressurized co2, filtration (thinking of a DIY canister or a sump for that) - all costing a lot of money and time. Plus, I'm moving at the end of this month (kinda just came up) so yeah, things will be a mess for a while.