[Silly_Guppys]

Great centerpiece! impressive growth it's a better investment, then the stock market - lol

 

[TexasCichlid]

CO2 up and running. Aquario Neo diffuser making a very fine mist. Did paintball because academy is close for fills, but academy nor dicks sporting fill anymore apparently. Probably switch to a 2.5# in that case.

 

[TexasCichlid]

Planted some ludwigia super red a couple days ago, topped staurogyne growth and planted tops. Everything is growing well so far, even the ludwigia has new leaves.

 

[bravehearts86]

Great Setup!

Do you ever find the filter outflow is too strong for your betta?

 

[TexasCichlid]

Growth has been nice. Ludwigia did not make it. I've turned the lights down a bit so the stauro does not grow as fast. I tend to stick with giant bettas, or plakats at a minimum, as they are more robust swimmers with less finnage to drag around so I don't have to baby water flow.

 

[TexasCichlid]

Betta somehow jumped through the top opening. Tank has now been converted to keeping PFR Cherry Shrimp.

 

[TexasCichlid]

The growth has really taken off since the last update. I added an inline CO2 atomizer to better distribute CO2 and took a razor to the black mesh that was on the top portion of the tank. Also upgraded was changing the stock pump to an Eheim Compact 600.

 

[TexasCichlid]

New addition - Bucephalandra Sp Brownie Ghost 2011

 

[TexasCichlid]

Feeding day

 

[Grobbins48]

Just wanted to drop in and say the tank looks great! Very nice work!

 

[Asteroid]

Nice setup, what made you go to co2 after 7 years?

 

[TexasCichlid]

Nice setup, what made you go to co2 after 7 years?

Missed having a higher tech setup and wanted to start growing carpets again, even if they are easy carpets. Also gives me more flexibility on what I can toss in the tank and be successful with, if I ever want to change it up. I probably would not have thrown a nice Buce in without the CO2, for example, but with it I didn't think twice.

 

[TexasCichlid]

Buce is growing faster than I expected, caught one of my PFR being an absolute unit on it.

 

[TexasCichlid]

Growth on the Brownie Ghost 2011 surprises me. This is my first Buce. I expected slower than my Anubias, but it seems to be around the same rate.

 

[Asteroid]

Growth on the Brownie Ghost 2011 surprises me. This is my first Buce. I expected slower than my Anubias, but it seems to be around the same rate.

I have a similar setup in that I have Anubias and Buce growing in a thick grouping in and around each other and the Buce is definitely outgrowing the Anubias.

 

[second]

Awesome tank

 

[TexasCichlid]

Whole tank picture after a WC. No problems to report. Growth has gotten a bit better with the CO2 dialed in via the new regulator from Bettatail coupled with an inline atomizer.

 

[TexasCichlid]

Added a few new pieces of wood to spread my Brownie Ghost along. They are growing much faster than I anticipated, as I've essentially quadrupled my plant mass in a month.

 

[TexasCichlid]

Well, almost had a disaster. Wooden leg on my stand gave up. I heard it cracking and was able to prop it up and keep it from crashing. Bought a Fluval Flex 15 stand and got it set up today, worked out very nicely. Allows me to watch the tank from angles I have not typically been able to view.