Furbs

are other rhizome plants, like java fern, the same way? I bought some that have 8+ inches of roots only rhizome

My golden pothos dont seem to have any new growth after a month of dipping into a 5 gallon tank.

got the black background on the tank. Flipped the fluval aquasky the other way (1/4 the leds only go to purple and ar dim) to see if the pleco starts exploring the other side of the tank or just likes the driftwood side

upcycled nice

How has that pump been holding up? Seems like a painless way and cost effective way to get it done.

After years of waiting until I had a house to get back into fish keeping I've decided to stop waiting. I've taken over someone's neglected 5 gallon tank. It has two 6+ year old harlequin rasbora (last of a school) one pleco I think is a female bristle nose pleco and a handful of amano shrimps. I quickly realized none of these should be in that small of a tank so I set up a 29g three weeks ago. Stuffed it with all the cheap offer up plants I could get my hands on, watched dozens of hours of videos and moved everyone in. Little early but the ammonia and nitrite levels have stayed below .25 and I am testing daily. Spent all my free time this past week trying to narrow down the direction I want to go with the 29g. Ive always wanted a shrimp colony. I love watching the amano shrimp so much. Rili shrimp would be so cute. The more I research it though the less hope I have in keeping them in the 29g because every center piece fish I want do not go great with them. Id like a koi betta, or a German blue ram, dwarf gourami or an apistogramma cacatuoides. So the he 5 gallon fluval spec Vmay become a rili shrimp tank with a small nano fish school. Someday I can test out shrimps in the 29g but I dont wanna make it too hard on myself from the start. My partner also easily talked me into cycling a 10g planted tank for a betta. I dont think I can have any more tanks with this 2-3 tanks. The 5g may still need to go or only be for quarantine. Upgrading it to a 10g feels like pushing my lease 🙈 The rasbora have shown little mating dances, and the pleco has better color since moving into the 29g tank. Very happy to see this behavior from them and relaxing to them after work has been amazing.

Is the gsas worth joining if you're very new to the hobby? I'm worried most of it would go way over my head or I wouldn't get anything out of the events and auctions

I was setting up this 29g to rescue two harlequin rasbora (last two of my sister's 6+ year old school) and a brisstlenose pleco from a cramped 5g tank. Ive been dreaming of a shrimp tank for years and thought I could do a nice big (to me only having nano and 10g tanks) community shrimp tank. Noe after a lot of research it doesn't seem like anything I wanna do with it will work out so ill probably settle with keeping amano shrimp with a nano school and koi betta. Ive never had a planted tank so this is already a major step up from the plastic plants and dragons I had as a tween. The old 5g fluval spec V may just have to become the solo rili shrimp tank