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Tank's looking pretty good at this point, moss has filled out nicely and the rotala finally recovered from that early melt. If I could go back I'd probably have planted fewer stems of rotala and given the buce more room from the start, feels a little crowded on that one side now. Otherwise happy with how the hardscape reads with everything grown in around it.
Swapped in the cooling fan today, box and packaging still sitting on the floor by the stand cause I haven't dealt with it yet. Wasn't expecting it to be this loud honestly, it's not crazy but it's a constant hum that I notice every time the room's quiet. Worth it for keeping temps down under the twinstar though, tank was creeping too warm in the afternoons without it.
The bucephalandra has honestly surprised me, new leaves pushing out steady the last couple weeks and they're bigger than the ones it came with. Everything else is filling in around it but the buce specifically went from looking dead weight to actually being the best part of the scape.
Otocinclus are in.
Ok so two weeks of cycling and the rotala is looking rough, a couple lower leaves melted off and floating around. Bucephalandra seems fine just sitting there doing nothing which I guess is normal for it. Moss looks thin and kind of sad against all that bare hardscape still showing through.
Water's in, filter's running, still hazy from the amazonia clouding things up. Plants are all in but tiny and sparse right now, more bare substrate showing than anything green. I know it needs to sit and cycle but I already want to rearrange half of it, having to just leave it alone for now is annoying.
So the ADA cube finally made it home, drove back with it wedged between my knees in the passenger seat like an idiot because I didn't trust the trunk. Hardscape's just placed dry for now, no water yet. Cube itself wasn't cheap and then the stand and the twinstar on top of that, feeling it a little but zero regrets so far.