Kirb

This was my first aquarium that started the addiction and most neglected tank. This piece of spider wood caught my eye and I grabbed a few river rocks. It was a 5gallon topfin split tank, I removed the waterfall divider. I toss the tank back together last week with a quick scape. I looked at it for a few hours over the week and ordered a few supplies. This is the end result.

Had a lot of new plants come in so redid the 60p. Little picture dump for how things are looking for the new year.

Bought some extension tubes to play around with macro photography. Tested them out on my fauna

Been a busy few months and tanks have been a bit neglected. Did a big cleaning on the small tank this weekend. Everything looks great minus erio quin. Uprooted most the plants to clean the substrate. Plan to move some stuff around in the 60p this week when I do maintenance.

Managed my to propagate Xyris sp red, chia and split the erio quins up this weekend. Erio sulawesi is struggling a bit as it's been fighting a lot of algae as it transitions to sub. Moved everything around but not really happy with it. Going to give it sometime to settle in before I mess with it again. Hoping the pogo erectus will take off but it's been struggling.

First month down. The Tonina are doing great and have given me a lot of babies. Added a few other plants just to help get the tank stable. Fighting a little bit of staghorn since a lot of the plants melted back. Increase water changes and cleaning before I adjust lighting or ferts. Thinking I'll move a lot of the plants around in here over the weekend. Some bugs have been eating my plants like crazy but these bins are doing great.

Got the water box mini10 back up in running. Still looking for a few more plants for it. Had some erios come in before I was ready to fill the tank so they'll grow out a little in the 60p for now.

Down the 10 gallon goes for a bit. Got netlea soil and netlea at5s in for it. Going dark for a few weeks while I figure out what plants I want to try. Rough idea of what I'm thinking.

Received some cool new plants yesterday. Some tonina fluviatilis, Bacopa colorata, purple staurogyne, and cuphea anagalloidea. Slowly moving the 60p into a mostly rare plant tank. 10galon tank has turned into a holding cell for now. Plan on selling all the plants in it and resetting the tank.

First attempt at diy wabi kusa balls. I had everything minus coco fiber ($5) and 2 container from goodwill ($2.50 each). I'm not happy with the initial result as aquasoil seems to be leaking out but I'll see after a few weeks. I'll likely go with a sphagnum moss outside layer next time. Used some left over uns soil and mixed with a little water till I got a consistency I liked. This was messy and a long process. I should have used a coffee grinder to break the soil down. The coco fiber was a bit tricky to manipulate. I use some old 4lb mono fishing line to wrap them. I used some emersed clipping from my little plant farm along with some moss. Grabbed a few Ludwigias, Rotalas, downio helferi, and s. Repens. One of my grow bins is fighting some mold so I had some empty space for a temporary home.

Got back from a 9 day vacation and took a few days to get everything back in order. Traded some trimmings for more buce, purchased a nice clump and some anubias nana petite. Close to 50 epiphytes in here now. Attempted to make a few wabi kusa balls with some leftover aquasoil and emersed trimmings.

Sold a ton of plants this weekend but probably didn't trim these two bins back enough or my tanks. Still have way to much Rotala oj and good bit of s repens. New tank is pretty much full farm status. My bins inside haven't been doing the greatest. Got hit pretty hard with a mold out break a few weeks ago. Been working on transitioning everything outside with more ventilation. Using a bush for shade. So far it's been working out. Started a new bin for Ludwigia natan super red and Rotala h'ra. Slowly trying to get everything its own box. Bin with Bacopa caroliniana, Ludwigia repens x arcuata, myriophyllum roraima(not liking the heat tho), and a few Rotala ramosior Florida.

Started another farm tank project. Turned my 4 gallon desktop tank into a buce farm. Will be removing the stems this weekend and looking to add a buce or moss wall. Believe I found some Ludwigia palustris in the ditch at work

Did a pretty massive trimming over the weekend. New tank it being a little annoying fighting some start up algae, I should have dark started. Love watching one stem turn into many

Emersed bin went pretty wild over the last 2 weeks so I had to add a few more boxes. One of the new boxes has Ludwigia repens, natans, and Rotala Florida. Started with 2-3 stems of each a month ago and they've multipled nicely. Trying out a different soil with worm castings mixed in.