[mistuhmarc]

Rocks definitely look great. I'm liking how well you used the eggcrate to elevate the rocks .

 

[mistuhmarc]

Wow, hard to believe it's been a month since I updated this...

Well as you may anticipate, the plants have actually grown. Shocker, I know. I mean, they haven't grown much, you can see from this picture they've really just barely done anything...barely...
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Ok, in all seriousness, these plants grew like wildfire! And thanks to a healthy dose of neglect from myself in trimming (but not in my fert dosing :thumbsup, things really overgrew the tank. The fish barely had room to swim anymore. So, TRIM TIME!!! :red_mouth



Amazing how different things look. The "tree" is starting to grow in nicely. I like the look of the xmas moss for trees. The mini pellia is also looking good in the ohko. I divided my once, three plants of blyxa japonica into about 15 stems worth! Most of which made it's way into the 40 gallon to supplement what I already had in there. Hoping to get a nice patch grown in on that one. I removed the bacopa that was in there, not really feeling it in this scape. And my final comment is on the alternanthera reineckii, It's really making a nice wall of red in the back that I wanted. I'll probably have to trim that soon too, getting close to the surface.

I had hooked a rig up to hang the light from instead of having it resting on the tank, as I've had some thread algae on the upper most parts of the plants, but then it broke... So I gotta figure something else out.

The final fun little tid-bit. Somehow an amano shrimp made it from this aquarium to the bathroom...still alive at the time...still alive tonight. My roommate called me while I was at work this morning, very confused... as was I, haha. He found the shrimp this morning and cleaned him off a bit, then put him back in the tank for me. I barely believed it until he sent me a picture. At the time, I hadn't done anything to the tank except add some more water to it (it's been so hot here that the water is evaporating quite quickly), I did the trim tonight. I had no idea these little shrimp were so resilient, that's about a 30 foot journey across carpet and tile...a very dry, 30 foot journey. :confused1:

Here's the picture, kinda blurry, but you can tell it's a shrimp!


As always, thanks for looking!

I've had this happen to me several times...only once did I catch an amano surviving out of the water. The others, well, they met they're timely demise . Anyways, I think they jump out most when breeding, they'll be more active and jumpy as they try to play around with each other. The only other time I had them jump out was when something went really wrong with my tank, so they tried to climb out and then jump out. Just be careful on how things go!