Well, lots of changes.
Most of them not so good.
About a month ago I drained the tank down to an inch or two of water and my hubby and I managed to push it out into the living room.
Unfortunately, the move triggered an ammonia spike that I couldn't get under control even with Prime and water changes, and I lost over 1/2 the livestock within the following 48 hours.
I'm down now to:
0 Amanos (they ALL died! About two dozen
)
2 Cardinal tetras (lost 30ish)
12 or so Pristellas (lost about 1/2)
1 of the blue female GBRs (lost 4)
1 clown pleco (lost the 2 GNPs)
4 or 5 Cories (don't think I lost any from the move, but these have slowly dwindled down over the past year, I think from jumping?)
?? Otos (no clue, but I didn't lose any of these from the move either)
In the months prior to the move, I also neglected the tank and let the surface get choked up with floaters, hydrocoytle, and bacopa. The end result is I had to pull out all of those plants, and my E. tenellus carpet has died back quite a bit. Since removing the floaters, I've had a BBA outbreak.
To add insult to injury, my Solar fixture pooped out. I'd left the tops off the tank for too long, and let water deposits build up on the fixture, and I burnt out the ballast (it flamed a bit, even... oops).
So, I now have one of the new black Solar T5HO 5x54s now, with a mix of 10k and Plant grow bulbs (still only running 2 bulbs at a time).
I'm going to pull the Bacopa and replace it with Val nana, and I also have some more E. tenellus 'pink' to fill in the sparce areas.
Here's a few pics of the current sorry state of things (pics taken with the temp 36" T5NO that I used while waiting on the new Solar to come in):
The tank on its new wall:
Right side
Left side
At least the Kleiner bar is now able to put up leaves that don't get munched to death
Still puts out swordlets... I need to call it "Old Faithful" or something lol
Some of the fish
