Amir Wilson

Tucked into the little alcove by the bookshelf, it gets just enough light from the window to make the Chihiros almost unnecessary some afternoons. Amazon swords anchor the back with buce and anubias tied onto driftwood up front, hairgrass filling the open ground. CPDs and endlers move through the top and mid water while the cherry shrimp, a good 38 of them now, clean up everywhere else.

This one sits along the wall in the office, the spot that gets afternoon sun through the blinds so the stone throws stripes across the glass sometimes. Seiryu and spiderwood make up most of the layout, kept pretty open since the acei need room to move and dig around like cichlids do. Ten of them in there now, colors have really come up as they've settled into the rockwork.

Two pieces of Malaysian driftwood set the whole layout before anything green went in, and the hairgrass and monte carlo grew in around them instead of the other way around. Moss has thickened up nicely on the wood. Cardinals and neons school through it, corys work the bottom, shrimp pick at the moss.