3.5 Gallon Update

This tank will be one year old in May. The dwarf baby tears have grown really thick in this tank, and the micro chain swords interweave through the baby tears making a net that anchors them down into the substrate. Just have been adding a little bit of excel liquid co2 every other day and once every week or two weeks a water change and the plants have been doing great.

New 55 Gallon Set up

New tank set up!!!

The substrate is a base layer of coarse regular sized black gravel to give it height, then we added a 2-inch layer on top that is a finer soil/gravel mixture that comes with water in it as well - the idea is to have organic matter brewing already in the substrate so starting a tank takes much less time.

There are 33 glolight tetras that look unbelievable when they school together!
6 Head & Tail Light Tetras
10 ghost shrimp

waiting for a shipment of: 40 black forest shrimp
6 emerald green shrimp
6 orange shrimp
8 zebra nerite snails

For plants, we planted pieces of dwarf baby tears along the edges, it should spread into a thick ground cover. Then there is dwarf potted hair grass, the purple plant is a bunch-pogostemon stellata, and next to it is going to be a tall leafed plant - Cyperus Helferi, and the ruffled edged plant in the middle is a Crinium Calamistratum.

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