So I've had this 30 for about 2 years now, first it was a (failed) guppy and pleco breeder, (failed because camallanus outbreak that I didn't get a good grasp on)
So about a year of sitting dried up in my storage room later, I decided to scrape it clean and reseal it. Then it became:
A very nice blackwater, home to 16 black skirt tetras, a pair of c.compressiceps, 8 g.holbrooki, 8 c.paleatus, and a pair of L144s.
Then the tannins faded, the plecos and cories ate all the leaf litter, half of the cories died, I planted it, the male compressiceps killed the female, so I moved the remaining cories to my other blackwater, moved the skirts to my acara's tank, temporarily moved the gambusia to my nanolutea tank but moved them back (to repent for their sins) because they jumped into the breeder box ate all the girardinus fry. That is how I learned gambusia have mouths the size of their heads, kinda like bass.
That aside, now it is this:
The fourth rendition is on its way though. With fall here and my grandparents having 2 oak trees in their front yard, you already know I'm bringing a trash bag to pick up all the leaves in their yard to redo the blackwater.
The current inhabitants are the compressiceps male (who I cannot catch for the life of me), the gambusia, a pair of cutteri, and the plecos, still. My friend is buying the cutteri pair off of me, gambusia will probably go in with my acara, plecos and compressiceps will again, stay. I think I'm gonna try to get some aeneus cories, angels and cardinals for the tank.
So about a year of sitting dried up in my storage room later, I decided to scrape it clean and reseal it. Then it became:
A very nice blackwater, home to 16 black skirt tetras, a pair of c.compressiceps, 8 g.holbrooki, 8 c.paleatus, and a pair of L144s.
Then the tannins faded, the plecos and cories ate all the leaf litter, half of the cories died, I planted it, the male compressiceps killed the female, so I moved the remaining cories to my other blackwater, moved the skirts to my acara's tank, temporarily moved the gambusia to my nanolutea tank but moved them back (to repent for their sins) because they jumped into the breeder box ate all the girardinus fry. That is how I learned gambusia have mouths the size of their heads, kinda like bass.
That aside, now it is this:
The fourth rendition is on its way though. With fall here and my grandparents having 2 oak trees in their front yard, you already know I'm bringing a trash bag to pick up all the leaves in their yard to redo the blackwater.
The current inhabitants are the compressiceps male (who I cannot catch for the life of me), the gambusia, a pair of cutteri, and the plecos, still. My friend is buying the cutteri pair off of me, gambusia will probably go in with my acara, plecos and compressiceps will again, stay. I think I'm gonna try to get some aeneus cories, angels and cardinals for the tank.
