Update time
My trickle filter has A LOT of over spray (this shouldnt have been such a suprise, IDK why I didnt consider it earlier) . I will be building a shower stall type thing out of left over PVC sheeting I have. At the moment I am using an assortment of older filters ranging from an fx6
My media filter is awaiting its k1 which should get here monday, I have extreme bubbling in the chamber so hope it works well.
Since the last post I started ripping up some of my smaller tanks to plant this one much to the disappointment of my gugdeon collection. I took a bunch of smaller plants from well established tanks and also removed a massive piece of limestone(it filled the entire bottom of a 40b) from my empire gudgeon tank. Its looking good but not all the plants are set into their new spot. I hope to eventually remove the plastic spider plants and only have living plants but need the spider plants for egg laying.
After what felt like a long week, I added the newts on the 14th. they took an immediate liking to the new space and I was able to observe mating behavior when I returned to check on them on Monday (15th)
This weekend, I will be re framing the flood table, building the shower stall and hopefully collecting eggs.
pics in the next post