Recent content by alexge

This looks lovely! Aren't you worried about the tank weight on top of your drawer or have you custom built it?

Yesterday I decided that the rotala walichii had gotten too tall. In my previous experience when plants approach the surface, I get algae breakouts, so for this tank I'll keep them shorter and bushier. Furthermore (and knock on wood) it seems to be doing fine, which is a first as it has always...

Well, my lovely betta whom I adore and have kept for a year now in his own small tank, is becoming aggressive. He is chasing my gold rams and my honey gourami. The poor gourami has lost his colours, and the rams are trying to hide wherever they can. If this keeps going on, I may have to move him...

So I spent last weekend planting the newly arrived plants. Water was still full of tannins although the driftwood has already been in my previous aqua scape for over a year. The fishes seem to like it, although today I found them gasping for air at the surface, so I eased up on the CO2. I'm...

Hiya, I've re-scaped my previous 75P ADA driftwood jungle [1] because I wanted to move the tank to the living room. I decided to take that opportunity and go for a somewhat different type of aquascape, mixing driftwood, Iwagumi grey stones and an island-type setup. The design follows a triangle...