[puchisapo]

earlier this fall i we down to the lake for an hour of snorkeling in ashallow, quiet bay. a really cool spot that i saw was very still, shallow water up underneath some big silver maples. the trees had already started to lose some leaves, which covered the silty bottom. i thought that that would be such a cool theme for a tank--a leaf-covered bottom with maybe just a single water lily reaching up to the top and throwing shade on the bottom, just like i saw there.

with monitoring of the effects of the leaf matter it could be interesting from an ecological standpoint too.