Sciurus' Journal

[Sciurus]

This is my journal to document my aquariums as they grow over time, and to note things that I learn along the way!
I'm a highschooler with 3 aquariums, a 10 Gallon shrimp tank, 10 gallon Endler tank, and a 29 gallon community tank.
This was my first real aquarium I set up 2 years ago, my 10 Gallon Endler jungle. Two years later it looks like this...a very overgrown mess, but a fully self sustaining ecosystem without the need of a filter or that regular of water changes.

 Last summer I set up this tank as a community tank, 6 months later it looks like this, and is currently stocked with a Bolivian ram named Maki, a plethora of neocaridina shrimp and snails, a yellow BN pleco named pudding, and 3 sparkling gouramis named Sa, Shi, and Mi. Maki however is refusing to eat, probably due to internal parasites so this tank is currently being treated with paracleanse. Lastly, my shrimp tank that I set up 2 weeks ago. 

[Guppysnail]

Your tanks looks nice.  I love watching a new tank mature into an ecosystem 

[Sciurus]

Well, Its been a while. Kinda forgot I even made a journal. 
Anyway, since I last posted, I have lost my Ram and one gourami, everyone else is doing great though!


Shrimp tanks growing in well, pearl weeds starting to carpet! 
I've already got shrimplets in here to! 

Here's the endlers energetic and hungry as always

My sparkling gourami and pleco are getting more outgoing as well
I also made this terrarium using pearl weed and hydrocotle as a carpet which turned out to work quite well. 
Lastly, I've been experimenting with a new 29 gall paludarium layout for hillstream loaches, don't know if this is my final design yet though. 

[Sciurus]

I hate planting monte carlo. 
After the big auction last week I got a bunch of monte carlo and used it to hopefully carpet this tank, but it kept floating up and took forever to plant.
In my limited experience of plants, this is probably the most annoying to plant by far.I also got a massive bag of vallisneria and added that to my other tankIt was originaly intended for a stream tank with hillstream loaches later, but thats no where near being done any time soon. 
This tank also has a massive mass of pearlweed that started as cuttings that just floated to the top which i never removed. It just feels so sad to part with it and through it away even though it doesn't look the best, and thus i havn't removed it. The shrimp love it though.
I did some much needed maintenance on my endler tank and pulled out a bunch of floaters along with somewhat cleaning the glass. The log in their is still covered in BBA though... oh well
One of the female endlers did pass away, presumably from old age, as it was 2 1/2ish and didn't look to be sick at all.

[Sciurus]

Did some trimming and added mayaca fluviatilis. the mone carlos growing faster than i thought it would!

I did lose another of my original endlers this week though.

[Sciurus]

Found another dead endler, bringing the total to around 7 dead in the past 2 weeks. This makes me start thinking if its something other than old age. Thus I moved some of the endlers to my quarantine tank, a half filled 20 gallon tall.

 

Besides that, my sparkling gourami was showing its colors today

And here's pudding chilling on the glass per usual.

My shrimp tank has turned into my random plant tank as well. I just threw in a flame sword, vallisneria, and monte carlo, as i currently don't have a place to put them.

 

[clownbaby]

So sorry for your Endler's. Your tanks seem to be so well cared for, hopefully they recover easily and peacefully soon! I trust you will do a good job caring for them.