Xaos Posted March 11 Share Posted March 11 Hi! Happy to be here from KY (for the moment). Forgive my poor-quality pictures and my poor-quality glass! My wife & I have recently gotten back into the hobby with a small collection of nano fish, cherry shrimp, and snails. Pictured here is our newest tank, a 55 gallon planted tank with small groups of harlequin rasboras, neon tetras (not pictured), and kuhli loaches, plus a handful of assassin snails (not pictured) and several (dozen, hundred?) bladder snails. It's a good little group, soon to be joined by a group of cardinal tetras in my 20 gallon. They have been moved in slowly over the last few weeks after having set up the tank in January, and we just saw our first fry this morning! My eventual plan for this one is increasing the planting, building out the schools/shoals so that they each have about a dozen, and adding a single or pair of bristlenose plecos. The plants seem to be doing well for the most part: Rotala are just about ready for some cuttings, the hornwort is on its third round of cuttings, the banana plant grew its floating leaf last week, the java fern is struggling a bit but paradoxically propagating like crazy, and there's a java fern, java moss, and a couple other plants and grasses. Bonus - I bought this plant (below) locally and have no idea what it is. Anyone? The kuhlis have been predictable elusive since adding them to this tank, so here's a shot from before they moved: Loaches gonna loach. Second tank is a 20 long that holds some skrimps, mystery snails, and a small school of cardinal tetras that will eventually be moved over to the 55 gallon. The cardinals were an accidental buy - I got one lumped in with my first batch of neons, and of course the only answer was to buy him a school. The shrimps are majority neos of different colors and grades, with two amanos that were part of a group that tagged along with some plants. I also have two quarantine tanks going - a 5 gallon with a small group of red cherry shrimps and some stowaway ramshorns, and a 10 gallon with two short fin snow white bristlenose plecos (and a mystery snail who avoided the evacuation to the 20 long). Anyways, glad to be here and glad to be back in the hobby. Ultimately we would like to breed neos and plecos, but will be moving out of state in the next 3 months so we are switching gears to prepping what we have for the move and are done buying new fish (unless I can get my hands on a group of longfin green dragon plecos) until they are settled back in. Thanks! 3 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fish Folk Posted March 11 Share Posted March 11 Welcome aboard! Nice tanks, beautiful plants and fish. Those Cardinals look great. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeeGryphon Posted March 11 Share Posted March 11 Welcome! I love your plants, they look great! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrogdorTheBettanator Posted March 11 Share Posted March 11 Hi there! That banana plant is amazing! It makes me want to get one now lol 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xaos Posted March 12 Author Share Posted March 12 Thanks for the welcome, all! If anyone knows what the little red plant is, feel free to give me a shout. @Fish Folk, the cardinals are the best "accidental" buy I've made for sure! I can't wait to get a few more. @BeeGryphon thanks! I used Seachem Flourish & Flourish Trace when I first started them, but I've fallen off on the habit - they've really taken off on their own! @TrogdorTheBettanator Go for it! Mine has not been difficult at all, it acted like a rhizome plant initially (no roots, don't bury, just rest on top of the substrate) and grew its own roots. I got mine from a brick & mortar fish store in MD, but I'm sure they're good through aquarium co-op. I'll be sure to share pictures if/when it flowers!! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Levi_Aquatics Posted March 13 Share Posted March 13 Welcome! It looks like you have a lot of exciting stuff going on! I must say all the live plants look amazing 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xaos Posted March 15 Author Share Posted March 15 Thanks @Levi_Aquatics! I must have started from good stock, because I really haven't done much with them! Love the betta in your profile pic. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Levi_Aquatics Posted March 15 Share Posted March 15 On 3/14/2023 at 9:39 PM, Xaos said: Thanks @Levi_Aquatics! I must have started from good stock, because I really haven't done much with them! Love the betta in your profile pic. That's great, its always nice to have stuff working! Thank you, it's actually a guppy, but in the tiny pic I can see how its confusing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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