Starting the 40L aquarium
May. 28th, 2022 20:04![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tayastormAlright, let's see if this works.
Finally had time after work and before aquarium lights out to start working on the newest tank. I hadn't really planned anything out beforehand, other than knowing that I'd be using the Sahara Gold sand I'd bought but not used in previous tanks, and that I'd probably use some of the dragonstone pieces because places for the shrimp to crawl around in.
And then proceeded to forget to take a picture of the tank before I started to fill it, which I had to stop because the riccia fluitans decided to float. Which, fair enough, that's what it does and it's my own fault for not gluing the clumps down, but at that point it was long enough after the normal lights out time that I decided it was better to stop and go back to it tomorrow.
So for now this is the state of things:
Not the best picture - the water level throws things off - but whatever.
Tomorrow I'll probably drop the water level a bit and glue the riccia down, which will then need time to set before I can raise the water again, and after all that I want to leave the tank without occupants to give it a chance to settle in so....
This is all for the shrimp and they might have a bit of a wait before they can move in.
Which means I might need another winter solution for them...
I'm so bad at this.
Finally had time after work and before aquarium lights out to start working on the newest tank. I hadn't really planned anything out beforehand, other than knowing that I'd be using the Sahara Gold sand I'd bought but not used in previous tanks, and that I'd probably use some of the dragonstone pieces because places for the shrimp to crawl around in.
And then proceeded to forget to take a picture of the tank before I started to fill it, which I had to stop because the riccia fluitans decided to float. Which, fair enough, that's what it does and it's my own fault for not gluing the clumps down, but at that point it was long enough after the normal lights out time that I decided it was better to stop and go back to it tomorrow.
So for now this is the state of things:
Not the best picture - the water level throws things off - but whatever.
Tomorrow I'll probably drop the water level a bit and glue the riccia down, which will then need time to set before I can raise the water again, and after all that I want to leave the tank without occupants to give it a chance to settle in so....
This is all for the shrimp and they might have a bit of a wait before they can move in.
Which means I might need another winter solution for them...
I'm so bad at this.
