#Java plant

[al-and-jts-livingthings]

Second water swap to try to clear up the cloudy water, lower nitrate levels after adding 12 ghost shrimp, an albino plecostomus, and 3 diamond tetras yesterday

Tank total:

•1 white skirt tetra, 4 black skirt tetra, 3 neon tetra, 3 diamond tetra, 12 ghost shrimp, 1 plecostomus, 1 blue mystery snail

•English ivy (added today), java plant, aquatic fern

Letting the new filter do its work for a few days, if the water is still cloudy then we’ll chalk it up to bacteria bloom which should clear up in a few days. Hoping to take some solid progress pictures 😬

[shrimpapalooza]

Noodles at play

[semprvivum]

got this little dude yesterday, he was 50% off because of the growth (tumor?) on his eye

[eggfancy]

Everyone is getting along so well!! I can't wait to watch these babies grow up and get as huge and fat as Egg is <3

[waterskies]

Well, I turned this:

Into this:

Moved most of the vallisneria I pulled out into my 40 gal long.

The stuff that remains was the shaded out stuff in the back, but if it continues to grow like usual, then it'll be filled out again in no time.

I'm glad I can at least see the anubias again lol

I can also catch more glimpses of the creatures in here, like the Amano shrimp.

I haven't seen either kind of loach in a while! Here they are snufflin' away~

The lone remaining cherry barb still looks great against the green. I would get more if they weren't nippy!

I'm still wanting a feature fish for this tank, and I'm still leaning on the side of honey gourami, 3 of them. Or a single dwarf gourami, since I've had two before and loved them. Hmm.. choices.. decisions.

[cinchiko]

🦜🪴

[postcard-from-the-past]

Processing plant by Preanger, modern-day Parahyangan region in West Java, Indonesia

Dutch vintage postcard

[savageboar]

bruh im only using easy green fertilizer for the rest of my life my red dwarf lilies have such massive and vibrant pads now. they even have the "serrated" leaf edge shapes i wasn't able to get before.

[tiffanyspace]

Taman Bunga Nusantara

[leaf4e]

I made a carnivorous plant texturepack for java

they can be found naturally growing in swamps (as texture variations for blue orchids)

[headlessandhellbent]

I did a thing.

I got plant weights.

I also said FUCK IT and put the new plants that came today in the snail tank (RIGHT).

I have way too big of a headache to plant and scape today so I literally just weighted my plants and sunk em like a bad monster. Fergus' tank looks fucking ridiculous, maybe I'll scape it later but tbh he likes exploring his plants jungle the messier it looks so 🤷🏻‍♀️

I got this shit going on in fergus' tank.

I'm pretty sure my java is invading my tank. I'm so excited.

I also have these new floater stem things that I have no idea what they are. May be my dwarf grass??

Anyway. Tanks update!

[rainsroaming]

A very cloudy and misty drive down the mountain

[shrimpapalooza]

They're all cuties!

[semprvivum]

another planted betta tank update! added more mopani wood and rearranged things :)

[bibleofficial]

idk what the biofilm is onto of the aquarium !!! getting mixed signals !!!!! ‘not enough agitation’ ‘possibly due to hard water’ ‘fungal bloom’ PICK 1 !!!!!!!

[waterskies]

Little update on Mikhail's tank~

The dwarf sagittaria that was pretty much brown shoots had bounced back after root tabs were placed under them. Hopefully, there will be a carpet again soon! The cryptocoryne wendtii went through a bit of a melt and lost the majority of its old leaves, but new ones are growing, so that's good!

The vallisneria asiatica is doing fine. It's sending out new leaves that are spreading across the surface, and we have one new runner~

The anubias has a new leaf, but without snails in the tank, they're suffering from detritus and algae. I rub them off periodically, but it just comes back.

The Java fern just up and melted right back, which is a shame because it was bright and healthy when I put it in here, and it takes so long for them to get to that size. At least for me. So I think I'm going to put it back in the tank I got it from and put something else there. I'm not really sure what though tbh.

Anyways I thought I would also show Mikhail's reaction to me taking photos of the tank. I bet some of you can already guess what he thought lol

Once he got over trying to fight the camera, I did get this nice one of him.

Pretty boy~

I wanted to get a shot of the floating plants in here, so I opened the food hatch and instead was met with this.

"Feed me, mom."