65 Gallon Winter Holding Tank

[Koi]

Added new plants last week

Most of the plants are almost converted, probably 2-3 weeks out till I can replant and scrap the old growth. I also switched out my last 4000k led tube with another flora bulb. Its almost a little too pink but I will probably run with this until I see signs that I'm using too much light.

[Koi]

It's been some time since I've been on and I felt like it was time to add some more progression photos. Being that its winter I moved all my guppies back in side with most of them back in this tank again.

Since my last post I decided to redesign my tank and I ended up removing all my crpyts, anubias and buce.

Just for context this is the photo from my last post before I tore it down.

July

August 16

October 24

November 7-20

 

December 7

December 18

Today ( December 22)

I'm a little bummed that my tank started to get a little cloudy the one week I actually had time to take some pictures but I'll probably come back to post some better shots when it clears up.

[Chris]

I love the tank, but man...

Those are some sexy crypts!

By far my favorite plant.

[Koi]

Thanks @Chris! Yea it definitely feels like something is missing in my tank without them but its just that they take up too much space. 

It definitely killed me a little to pull them out but I needed the space to try out some different plants. I'll definitely be removing some more plants from this tank so maybe the crypts will make an another appearance later.

[Beardedbillygoat1975]

@KoiIt is amazing to me how well the PSO is framing the tank and basically is almost like hardscape pulling my eye to the void there. Very cool! 

[Koi]

Thanks @Beardedbillygoat1975, I've been really struggling with the height of this tank and it seems the PSO fits the bill for now.

Would you believe that it's only one stem on the left side? It really lives up to the name haha. 

I've been meaning to trim it to make it denser than having it reach outwards and shade all my plants but I'm a little tempted to see how much taller it will grow. I'm also a little curious to see how thick the stem will get if I leave it. It's probably little bit thicker than the width of a pencil at the moment.