I was getting some pics ready to post when the database went down! So I didn't get many done. I just got the first 7 ready. Here they are!
These pictures were taken on Feb 17, 2009 so they're a little over a month old. Mainly random pics of the fish, but I did get a FTS.
Watch the FTS pics I'll be posting later to see the growth of these plants. It's crazy!
This is when I finally started getting the plants back in shape after having neglected them. My Red Tiger Lotus was severely cut back at this point so you can't even see it. I removed all of the leaves, cut off most of the roots, and removed a ton of babies. I had no choice because it was growing so large, so fast, that it was completely taking over the entire left side of the tank. The leaves were larger than my open hand!
The green plants in front of the driftwood that are on the left side, towards the middle are Hygro 'Kompact'. I bought ONE pot and split it. And it really took off! It's even much thicker now. I'll have a bunch to sell this weekend. A really great plant that grows very lush without getting too tall. One of my favorites. Beautiful bright green.
A pic of my Vals that were growing very nicely. They have taken over the tank now! I was keeping them cut back, but I wanted to share some so I stopped trimming the runners.
I'm going to move this to the far left back corner (where the C. balansae are now). They're growing too tall and hiding the plants behind them, and I think their bright green color will show up well in a back corner which tends to be darker.
The white spots is the pearling. It gets so bad, it's like a snow storm!
Five of my eight Torpedo Barbs. Great fish! That's Golden Creeping Jenny behind them. They grow really nicely.
One of my very favorites has grown back very nicely! At first, I thought this was Poly 'Sao Paulo', but it has later been determined to be Poly K. Whatever the name, it's really a beautiful plant!
There just
has to be some food hiding in the substrate! Torpedo barbs checking every inch of the tank for a morsel of food while my SAE works his way to getting a meal of algae.
Okay, blurry shot, but I wanted to get a picture of my little blue guppy. He is so pretty! Unfortunately, like all of my male guppies in this tank, his tail has been shredded. But his tail lasted much longer than the rest!
The yellow and black leopard guppy is a baby from two of my other guppies. I got 4 of them with this design.
If you look just to the right of the blue guppy, there is a blur of color which is actually a hybrid guppy/endler. His colors don't show up well in this pic, but he's an iridescent array of many colors. Very pretty! I have two like this.
This is my C. balansae that I have decided to let go of. I know some people love to have plants drape over the top of the tank, but I'm not one of them. So I'll selling all of these this weekend. They've grown even taller since I took this pic!
That's it for this batch. More pics to come!
