Bottlecap

I am new to the hobby too. I love that tank, it looks beautiful. The puffers are such cuties! Your tank looks really healthy and has some nice looking plants in it. Keep up the good work!

Well Merry Christmas everyone. I got two shrimp recently and my Betta has been very kind to them. I also ordered valisneria, amazon sword, and java moss from aquarium co-op, among other things like an air stone and fertilizer. My java fern is browning and looks rough. I plan to cut the leaves and see how that goes. The new growth on the java fern looks good so I believe it just needed fertilizing. The mountain still needs some help growing moss on it, but over time I think it will start to really flesh out. My shrimp have been 'riding the airstone' too which is hilarious! Here is a video of the shrimp:

Yeah I just got the cheapest stuff I could find and that hapoened to be 100% silicone. I didn't think about additives but I appreciate your concern. If I end up doing more tankwork in the future I will keep that in mind. Wouldn't want my fish, or future inhabitants dying off because of a silly mistake like that.

I got 100% silicone. I did not check if it was aquarium silicone, but I assumed it would be fine since it is 100% and said it was waterproof within 30 minutes of applying.

I do plan on putting moss and plants on the mountain. I also will plant and rearrange the left side of my tank too. Thanks for checking out my post.

Well today I did a huge update to my tank. I went to home depot and got some lexan sheets, and silicone. I went to petco (because I had a giftcard) and got some dragon stone and a few plants. I had an idea to build a 'mountain' and I think it came out pretty well. This was my first time using silicone and when I made one of the layers of the mountain it actually split, but I was able to patch it with a piece of lexan. Luckily I never threw away my clown gravel from when I first got my tank. I ended up swapping it out immediately after getting it because it wasn't the look I wanted. The left side of my tank is still unfinished for now. I will probably put the coconut behind my log, and try to plant around it to hide it a bit. I also plan on getting java moss or maybe weeping moss and put it on each layer of the mountain to completely cover the gravel on it, and to hide the tops of the lexan walls. Here are some pictures of my progress through the day.

Loppy is beautiful! I just set up a pretty good space for my aquarium and now I have a little bit more room if I wanted to get a second. I might end up getting another 10 gallon but not sure what to put in it. Maybe I will make a shrimp tank?

Yeah Zero's fin doesn't inhibit him at all either. Good to know it shouldn't be a problem!

A few months ago I bought my first tank and got it cycled. Last weekend I ended up getting my first inhabitant for it. He is very active and loves swimming around constantly. I hope he stays active over time. I plan on getting some larger plants to put on the right side and back of the tank. I named the betta "Zero" and got him from Aquarium Co-op. I did notice one of his ventral? fins is bent. I am hoping that is okay.