Replaced a sad little starter tank that never held a plant longer than a week. Dragon stone anchors the scape now, with vallisneria and java fern actually taking hold instead of melting away. Rummynose and CPDs school through the middle while a small army of bristlenose keep the glass honest.
Tank's looking pretty full these days, moss has finally filled out and the vallisneria is doing its tall grassy thing across the back. If I could go back I'd probably plant the hygrophila a bit thicker from the start since it took forever to bulk up. Still happy with how the dragon stone layout turned out even after all that fussing early on.
Installed the inkbird temperature controller today and it turned into a bigger ordeal than it had any right to be, cords everywhere, probing around behind the tank trying not to knock anything loose. Finally got it wired in and set, so now at least the heater has some supervision instead of just doing its own thing.
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That dragon stone with CPDs swimming through it is doing a lot of work visually. Any tannin staining from it or does it stay clear
Rummynose and CPDs in the same 75 is bold, curious if the rummynose ever bother the danios at feeding time or if it's all calm
All calm so far, rummynose stick to their own group and the CPDs do their own thing near the moss. Feeding time is more chaos from everyone being hungry than anyone actually bothering anyone else.
Alexis JonesQuestionDragon stone scape looks pretty solid. Is that stone raising your GH at all, or has it settled down since setup?
Haven't noticed any GH creep from it, tests have stayed pretty normal since setup. Maybe it's just a slow leacher, or maybe I'm not testing often enough to catch it.
Alexis MartinezQuestionHow long has this one been running? That dragon stone looks nicely settled in, not a lot of green film on it
Not too long, still fairly early days honestly. The dragon stone lucked out and skipped the ugly green film phase, no idea why, I'm not complaining.
Sofia PerryQuestionHow long has this one been running? The celestial pearl danios against the dragon stone look great, and biweekly changes with no CO2 sounds like a nice low stress setup.
Still relatively new, nothing crazy long yet. And yeah the biweekly changes with no CO2 have been pretty painless so far, low stress is exactly the vibe I was going for.
Carlos Miller