Settling in

A few pics from the first few days:

You can see that the right side is shaded, its closest to a window. I just used a folded A4 piece of paper. I may move it to over the cave later, for the nocturnal BGK.


New red leaves in the middle, and new green ones around the outside of the ozelot.

The tetras shoaling, the day they were introduced. After the first day, they spread out, and don't shoal much anymore.

The day after they were introduced, I noticed the glowlights weren't shoaling at all. They had split into 2 or 3 groups, and were spawning! After a sufficient amount of hassling from the males, a pair would go off 'amongst the bushes', under a sword or the water cabbage and they'd do a barrel roll, and while they were upside down, the eggs would be released. The females released 10-20 eggs each time, which were promptly eaten by both corys and glowlights. They did this about 5 times, and and a few times the next day (yesterday), and at least once today. I think they've run out of eggs now!


Squishy the bristlenose on the water cabbage.


Closeup of the bristlenose.


Corys, and a shrimp pellet. They don't seem very interested...


Corys swimming up and down the side of the tank. I think they want to explore the living room too!

One of the two pearl grasses didn't seem to be doing as well as the other . The bases of each 'stem' seemed to be melting away, but roots were still growing from further up the stems.


I had previously buried one of the stems that had come off under the sand, and it seemed to be doing well. So I ended up just planting all the stems of the melting plant, and taking the pot out.