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Once upon a time at the riverbank

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12th June 2009

After the Cory sicknesses I stopped dosing Melafake last week and then after a 70% water change on Wednesday the water clarity returned to 'air like'.

After putting the 25 Espei in (February) and having a few jumpers in the first few weeks the number has been stable at 18 for the last 2 months. I'm pretty happy with that as I wondered how long it would be before they were all gone during the first month or so.

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9th August 2009
The Crypts are starting to grow well now. They don't look much bigger in the picture below but I can see there are more leaves. Mostly the larger Willisii and Undulata in the centre rear. The Undulata on the left is also bigger too.

The Fern in the right rear corner is not growing as fast as I expected it to.

The Rasboras are great. I've been breeding Mosquito larvae in a bucket at the end of my garden and harvesting them weekly. The Rasboras go mental over them and go an intense almost red colour. I think they put their 'hunting' jackets on.

This month will be a tester. I go to Portugal for 17 days on the 18th. While I am away the CO2 will be off, no ferts will be added and the lights will be reduced to 2 series (0.44WPG.) shouldn't be a problem as this is a yearly occurrence. I am considering a condensation tray while I am away though as this tank loses a fair amount of water over a week. probably in the region of 6-8 litres!!! If I don't have something to remedy this I will come back to a tank that is about 2 inches lower than it normally is (below the lily pipe.) Not a problem to the fish or most of the plants but may mean the higher attached ferns and the tips of the rigid large fern would dry out.

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12th August 2009

When seeing Mark Evans' latest photos I noticed that light was the thing that added the extra to it and for once I liked a scape with a black background. From the pictures his lights looked to be giving the same appearance to the plants as mine so I thought I would try it out. The setup pics are here too.

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