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I'd like to start a tank journal for my ten gallon, even though I set it up more than two years ago. If nobody minds, I'm going to post a backlog of pictures highlighting the progress it's had, then continue from there. Current tank shot (10/08/20):
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Started in July, 2014:
It was a bare-bottom tank at first (until I realized how much I dislike looking at snail poo). I put a 50 watt heater on it, a small sponge filter on an airline, java fern and anubias on driftwood pulled from my other tank. Two small cherry barb were the first inhabitants.
7/9/14-
Moved one of the driftwood pieces back into the other tank, put into the tenner fake skull with java moss tied on it (from a betta bowl I got rid of), and some fake plants to fill a corner.
Tried tieing java fern rhizome onto a stone.
7/13/14- Added some gravel substrate.
I look at the tank from short end a lot, so tried to make that view nice.
Put in a tomato nerite snail and one malaysian trumpet snail (that's all it took, now I have hundreds).
8/10/14- Got a new betta, Oliver, for the tenner. [strike]He's still with me as of today![/strike]
8/13/14-
Lots of diatoms. Or fine debris off the driftwood, I was never sure which. Up to this point the tank just had ambient lighting from window, and the anubias kept on growing.
8/15/14- Started dosing some ferts (seachem flourish comprehensive) each week, and put a desk lamp with cfl daylight bulb over the tank 6hr/day.
8/29/14-
I was relatively pleased with the tank at this point.
I started seeing baby trumpet snails.
I put a piece of paper on the short end of the tank to block light from window. It wasn't direct sunlight, but enough I was getting hairy algae on edges of anubias leaves.
Java ferns didn't seem to be doing too well, although they had new leaves growing constantly.
I got a striped kuhli loach- you can just see his face peeking out from behind driftwood center of the pic here.
Anyone interested in seeing more...?
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Started in July, 2014:
It was a bare-bottom tank at first (until I realized how much I dislike looking at snail poo). I put a 50 watt heater on it, a small sponge filter on an airline, java fern and anubias on driftwood pulled from my other tank. Two small cherry barb were the first inhabitants.
7/9/14-
Moved one of the driftwood pieces back into the other tank, put into the tenner fake skull with java moss tied on it (from a betta bowl I got rid of), and some fake plants to fill a corner.
Tried tieing java fern rhizome onto a stone.
7/13/14- Added some gravel substrate.
I look at the tank from short end a lot, so tried to make that view nice.
Put in a tomato nerite snail and one malaysian trumpet snail (that's all it took, now I have hundreds).
8/10/14- Got a new betta, Oliver, for the tenner. [strike]He's still with me as of today![/strike]
8/13/14-
Lots of diatoms. Or fine debris off the driftwood, I was never sure which. Up to this point the tank just had ambient lighting from window, and the anubias kept on growing.
8/15/14- Started dosing some ferts (seachem flourish comprehensive) each week, and put a desk lamp with cfl daylight bulb over the tank 6hr/day.
8/29/14-
I was relatively pleased with the tank at this point.
I started seeing baby trumpet snails.
I put a piece of paper on the short end of the tank to block light from window. It wasn't direct sunlight, but enough I was getting hairy algae on edges of anubias leaves.
Java ferns didn't seem to be doing too well, although they had new leaves growing constantly.
I got a striped kuhli loach- you can just see his face peeking out from behind driftwood center of the pic here.
Anyone interested in seeing more...?