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Having finally found a home for the rest of my cichlids, I began a major re-location project at home.
I moved the swordtails out of the 14 gallon, the mollies, guppies, otocinclus and shrimp from the 20 and put them all into a redesigned 55. I am using slate to contain two areas of aquasoil for plants, and the rest is a natural colored rock substrate. I planted it with some hygrophelia (I can't spell it) some red lotus, some java fern and a few crypts. I am not happy with the plants, but it is all I have right now.
I moved my brichardi into the 20 gallon tank, and did it up with black gravel in the front and larger white pebbles in the back with 4 pieces of holey rock. It looks pretty damned cool - kinda like a zen garden thing. The fish look incredible in there and I think they are happier with the extra space.
I moved my yellow shrimp into the 14 gallon, as they were dying in the tiny tank I had them in. I think that they look much happier in a fully aquascaped tank. However I am left with only 10 of them, which makes me sad. Hopefully they will breed soon - and I think a couple are saddled.
I moved my 25 dwarf crayfish (blue morph) into the 10 gallon where the brichardi were, and they definitely like the space better than the 5 gallon I had them in. I need to fix the scape on them, as the plants are a bit tangled and messy.
I moved my avocado puffer and tiny florida blue crayfish to the 5 gallon where the dwarf crayfish were - and the puffer is happier.
and I moved a betta into the 2 gallon where the puffer had been, and it has been puffing up whenever I walk by to show off.
I found the perfect piece of slate to complete my 10 gallon red cherry shrimp tank - looks like a mountain silhouette with a path up it - the baby shrimp have been playing king of the mountain all night - climbing up it and pushing each other off of the top - it's cute.
This has allowed me to free up a couple tanks that were a pain to maintain, let my livebearers have more space and breed better, and rescape a few awful tanks. Still not done. I need to buy gravel for my other 5 gallon tank, re-scape it and move it out to the living room, I need to rescape the 10 gallon with the two blue crayfish and the dwarf crayfish because the scapes are more functional than appealing to the eye, and I prefer to let form and function be balanced...and I need to get more and better plants in the 55.
I moved the swordtails out of the 14 gallon, the mollies, guppies, otocinclus and shrimp from the 20 and put them all into a redesigned 55. I am using slate to contain two areas of aquasoil for plants, and the rest is a natural colored rock substrate. I planted it with some hygrophelia (I can't spell it) some red lotus, some java fern and a few crypts. I am not happy with the plants, but it is all I have right now.
I moved my brichardi into the 20 gallon tank, and did it up with black gravel in the front and larger white pebbles in the back with 4 pieces of holey rock. It looks pretty damned cool - kinda like a zen garden thing. The fish look incredible in there and I think they are happier with the extra space.
I moved my yellow shrimp into the 14 gallon, as they were dying in the tiny tank I had them in. I think that they look much happier in a fully aquascaped tank. However I am left with only 10 of them, which makes me sad. Hopefully they will breed soon - and I think a couple are saddled.
I moved my 25 dwarf crayfish (blue morph) into the 10 gallon where the brichardi were, and they definitely like the space better than the 5 gallon I had them in. I need to fix the scape on them, as the plants are a bit tangled and messy.
I moved my avocado puffer and tiny florida blue crayfish to the 5 gallon where the dwarf crayfish were - and the puffer is happier.
and I moved a betta into the 2 gallon where the puffer had been, and it has been puffing up whenever I walk by to show off.
I found the perfect piece of slate to complete my 10 gallon red cherry shrimp tank - looks like a mountain silhouette with a path up it - the baby shrimp have been playing king of the mountain all night - climbing up it and pushing each other off of the top - it's cute.
This has allowed me to free up a couple tanks that were a pain to maintain, let my livebearers have more space and breed better, and rescape a few awful tanks. Still not done. I need to buy gravel for my other 5 gallon tank, re-scape it and move it out to the living room, I need to rescape the 10 gallon with the two blue crayfish and the dwarf crayfish because the scapes are more functional than appealing to the eye, and I prefer to let form and function be balanced...and I need to get more and better plants in the 55.
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