Back from a bit of a hiatus...
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Hey all
Not sure why this morning I brought up the AC site after being gone for so long...I think it's been a year or three. Been a busy time - moving, new job, reorgs at work (one after another it seems). And my current property has more upkeep required than my previous pad, tho of course it can't compare to what William's got going on. Tho I will have to catch up on what he's been doing recently, I guess.
On the tank side, I had a crash happen oh maybe a year ago now? I made the mistake of buying fish from a vendor I knew right well wasn't great, but the fish looked healthy...ha, I don't even remember what I bought there now, I'd have to look at my tank diary...and they seem to acclimitise fine...but then I went away a couple days after they were introduced...when I came back I was in the middle of losing almost every fish in that tank. A week later, I had a handful of survivors - the bn pleco (now my oldest fish at 8 years) and oddly enough the khuli's, and a few stragglers from the rest of the community and the wood shrimp and snails). Being busy with aforesaid life goings on, I didn't do a mass take down - I just did a recovery clean up and left the tank as it was, and slowly restocked it. On the heels of that, and caused by it, no doubt, I then I had a black algae break out, which - months later - is only now finally noticeably reduced and I can say its well on it's way out. That was my 20gal long planted community. It's now fully restocked with a small school of harlies, a mixed bag of card/diamond/neon tetras, some new plants (I really like the crinium), a male sword, and some kuhlis and wood shrimp and snails.
I also started a 5 gal - one of the all included Fluvals. It was supposed to be a neo shrimp tank, but dadgum I can't keep any in there. I suspect the pH is too high, so I've pretty much given up on them. It's now a betta tank with a dragonscale betta, a few snails, and a few danios. And plants.
So now I'm just going to wander the boards a bit, and see what names I recognise.
Peace out
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