And everything is doing fine! The algae is doing too well, if you ask me, but the shrimp have been making a dent and just added a pair of otocinclus to the tank today to help with that as well. Also got two more ornate tetras for a tank crew of:
6 Ornate tetras
5 Columbian Red-Blue tetras
2 otocinclus
1 Rubberlip Plecostomus
10 (or so) ghost shrimp
and a couple of pesky pond snails...those jerks
I have decided I am going to buckle down and purchase a new digital camera to help out with the blog. Either that, or figure out how to work the hubby's and use it for better pics. Only other new happening is the new CO2 reactor! Weighed it out between making a homemade reactor or purchasing a kit with a bubble counter/diffuser and went with the kit, mostly so I can get some accessible carbon into the tank to help the plants out and (cross fingers) get them growing fast enough to stave off some of the algae. I am also holding off on adding any more liquid fertilizer until the plants begin to respond to the CO2 and can use the liquid better. At this point, I feel that I am just feeding my algae. The kit is by Hagen and it has some good looks. Will probably use the provided yeast kits until I run out and then use my own homemade mix to save money.
Kid you not, some of my ghost shrimp are larger than the otos I just put in. They are becoming MONSTERS!
Prepping for a water change tomorrow or Thursday and still trying to decide my showcase fish. I am having a dilemma here...I LOVE blue ram cichlids and think they would do mighty fine in my tank, but they are not readily available in my area and the places that sell them offer very short guarantee periods. My other preference is for Turquoise Severum cichlids, who get much larger and may nibble on the plants. But these we sell at my workplace, we have a long guarantee period, and I can observe them for illness/gender at the store before I buy. I don't know. I will have to think on it some more...I think my tank is better suited for the dwarf Blues, but I don't want to have a fuss about gender/illness/return policies!
Anywho, thanks for reading! Will post more soon!
-Bri
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