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One of the neons is showing sickness, and another one died last week. I'm not sure what killed the one, it got dropsy and a couple of days later it was just dead. The other one that's showing signs of illness isn't showing much of anything, but it's the one that has a growth on it's lip, it's...

I have taken to calling the Darter tetras peewees, because shortening the scientific name like that amuses me. They are really coming into their adult colouring now- I think, I think I have an idea of how many males and females I have. Five females and four males, which is not ideal but no-one...

Well. It's been a couple of months and things happened and plans changed. I actually ended up with another two neon babies, four total, bringing the neon shoal back up to seven individuals. To think that the plan was to let the neons die out... I'm still umming and ahing over getting more of...

I think I'm settling on what I want to do with it. I think I'll start increasing the neon shoal. The babies are about half an inch long now, a quarter the size of the adults. I'd certainly like them to be a bit bigger before adding in more adults for them to deal with. But all in all, everyone...

I'm back from Christmas. First up, a picture of the tank: Just after the first water change after I returned. Second up, there's a little baby neon! I saw it just now during feeding time. I think I'll have to make sure I'm dropping food in that tangled mess of limnophila and hygrophila on the...

Thanks! I can't actually get hold of any P. Weitzmani here at all. And admittedly, the guppies would have been nice to watch, but I wasn't seriously considering them. So many problems, as you're saying. I can leave some sand showing. I'll just see on that front what the tank looks like in a...

A few months ago I posted asking about stocking for a leaf litter tank. Now I'm back once again because plans have changed. The stand for my 15 gallon failed and I moved all the plants over to the 40 gallon. This also means that plans to move the neons over to the 15 are a bit scuppered. So the...

A week ago? I took down the 3 gallon and distributed the plants between the other two. Today I noticed that the stand for the 15 gallon was failing and I took it down. It's a bad day. The foot of the 15 gallon was sunk into the plywood stand at one corner and causing it to tilt. Not good...

It's been a while and I got some pictures. The daphnia did not pan out, by the way. I'll try again another day. Potentially, when I get the darter tetras, I might have to just buy in live foods if they aren't eating frozen. But we shall see. The 40 gallon: So far so good. The tint is building...

Today we get pictures of my very much work in progress aquariums! The 40 Gallon: I'm adding in cucumber and repashy gel cubes. The otos love it and today I counted all 11 of them still alive and thriving and chowing down. One brave nugget even stayed still long enough for me to get a picture of...

Today, I've actually written a lot on paper before writing here. But I've realised I have questions and I think trying to write about them here will go over well before I possibly make a post about anything. I've been doing research to stave off a bad mental health day. Research into darter...

In my experience, red root floaters are perfectly fine with an inch (or less, I used to keep barely a cm) between them and the waters surface, and also okay with a little bit of turbulence- they just float away to an area with less. They will shade plants below, but hornwort, water sprite...

I am back. I'm honestly just writing this because I'm excited. There's not much to update on yet. The plants came and I wasn't in. I'll need to make the 2-hour round trip to the depot tomorrow. The soil won't actually come for a couple more days, so I'll float the plants for the 15 gallon in the...

I'm still thinking of ideas for both tanks. This is just going to be another throwing ideas around post, because I can't actually work on any tanks until I get home, as I'm away this week. Which gives me so much time to plan. I'm literally scouring google images and aquaessentials daily looking...

Well, today there are more musings about tanks. The otos are still doing well, as far as I can tell. I've not turned on the lights in that tank often as I just don't have room on the extension lead to run a heater, both filters, and a light on a timer. Plus duckweed. It just won't die! I'm going...

So. Plans changed and changed again. I ended up getting a desk and having to take down the 15. As of now, it's still empty and the fish are all enjoying life in the 40. I'm slowly building up the amount of leaf litter and other botanicals in there, and the driftwood is slowly sinking down. I...

Will do. I won't get any of them for a while until the leaf litter, twigs, and plant thickets are pretty established. I hope they do well! Nothing makes me happier than seeing them munching on food or enjoying some leaf litter.

I have done a bit of research, and while it will take a while to set up, I do like the idea of dwarf pencilfish and darter tetras. How many of each would you reccomend once I've built up the leaf litter and perhaps added some plants? (Currently, I do still have those 10 otocinclus)

Yeah, I do remember that from the last time I tried to go botanical. I had many baby snails, but hardly any of them grew big enough to breed and most of their shells went white. The bladder snails hitched in on some live plants. Thanks for the input on ideas for plants!

Honestly, having now moved the 15 gallon today. I need to do one or the other. I don't have the space for both. The desk should hold for an hour or two but I'll have to move them all over. I'll figure this out one way or another. I'll just have to go slowly with adding in botanicals and hope for...