10 gallon tank for the multis.....for now

Finally I have sold off the halfblack pastel guppy fry (kept 5 for myself)... and setup the fry tank for the multis. Both the Brevis and the Multis are much happier with the added elbow room. I'm still on the lookout for a 15 for these folks....already there are a couple of multi fry swimming around. I had 5 fry before the move, but so far since I have only seen 2. They're taking up residence underneath the tofa rock there. These fish are the easiest to move ! They dart right into their shells the second your hand comes in the tank...just grab a shell, put it in a dish with water and bring it over to the new tank ! Can't get any easier than that !

The tank setup isn't the best I can come up with, but it'll do for now. I kept the bag of gravel in the tank until the substrate gets a good colony of bacteria growing. When I get rid of that I'll be able to do a little more with the layout. The filter is already cycled..same one I used while the guppies were in there.

A couple of newbies for my 29 planted !

11/14/05 A few pics of the new kids on the block. I wanted to get some angels for this tank....it just seems to need them...lol... Right now they're pretty small, but they're going to look very nice when they get up to size. Hopefully I'll be able to keep these two together, but if they start chewing on each other the less colorful one will be looking for a new home.

11/22/05 I just took the dwarf gourami out of the 29 and put him in my 20long with the other pair of rams. I wanted a schooling type fish to add to this tank so I went out and picked up a group of 5 gold pristella tetras. They are fantastic schoolers ! I saw some other tetras that were similar but with a black slach on thier dorcels that I liked better, but they didn't seem to school as well as these. I'm very happy with them, they stay right together all the time and do add more interest to this tank. Now, to wait for those angels to grow up !! No more fish for this tank ! Two german blue rams, 2 otocininclus, 2 koi angles and 5 tetras about does it for capacity !

Another 29 redo !!

Well, I can't seem to get this to a place where I can leave it alone yet..lol...The large driftlog I had in there is now OUT. It was covered in moldy/algae like growth so I removed it to see if that could be the source of the algae issue I have been having with this tank. I am now dosing with ferts as well as Flourish Excel liquid carbon as advised by Tom the green thumb at AquariaCentral forum that I go to often. I can't remember his user name there, but you can usually find posts by him in the freshwater aquarium plants section at that forum. It looks great at the moment because I only just finished cleaning it all out and rearranging the plants and such. We'll see how it holds up from here without that log in there. Definitely need more plants in there. I know that adding a lot of them all at once helps alot to keep the algae from becoming an issue, but I've slowly been adding some from cuttings of what I have in other tanks...at least then I can be sure I'm not bringing something into the tank that will cause problems...such as "ick" or something equally annoying.