Aquarium at week 3

Yeah I was surprised that he showed up after I disturbed the tank. Now he is back to his hiding place again and I wonder when he will show up again.

@LadyDuck I don’t think it was scared it was just his nature not to show himself and now he’s back to what he is doing.

@rsa101 Poor little thing, he was scared.

Thanks it’s the angle I think since if you really look at yhe corners of it it is not appealing to look at.

@rsa101 they are calm to look at

@rakski That I can say is true. I just sit beside it and look at them swim and I feel relaxed already.

Yes I wanted to have a much active swimmers there. My original residents were not as fast swimmers around. But when I added the Swordtails and the Danios the tank kind of become active again and busy. So far my only concern right now is the proliferation of algae growth in the glass of my tank. It is not harmful for the fish itself but it is a sign that there is enough nutrients in my tank that the plants is not able to consume. So for now I need to have it manually remove every now and then and maybe need to water change more often so I can slow down their growth. I need the plants to grow more so that algae will not spread fast.

@hereandthere The swordtails might grow a little bigger but they are generally that size already. The size of my tank is not big enough to accomodate bigger fish unless they will be there alone.

@rsa101 will any of those breeds get bigger?

Thanks! The aquarium is much different now that there are fish in it. The plants has bit deterioriated bu new leafs are coming out so I guess its just changing and I neeed some trimming to remove those dying parts out.

@rsa101

Yes but I have to look at each and everyone's welfare in here. I might be overcrowding the tank already. I would like to add some more but the tank is just not enough to handle large quantity of fish.

@ilocosboy Yes I need a bigger tank but I feel it impractical and costly already having a big tank.

I agree, or you need bigger tank.

@Nakitakona it’s doing fine for now and I am determined to go through it no matter what happens. It is just woth the while and l am enjoying this and learning a lot now jow aquarium works.

It’s doing fine and well for now no more deaths so far and I just found out that the shrimps has survived and didn’t die at all.

@rsa101 well, That's fine.

It’s more or less 5 gallons.

Actually they have all the same effect since algae will still bloom despite a good filter. I’ve been reading that the best to combating them is to have plants to compete with the nutrients algae is feasting on. But when you are planning to get to planted tank you need a good substrate to plant them on.

As time goes by aquarium matures enough to sustain life. I mqy not add more fish anymore if there’s no deaths coming.

I am also glad that it did survive but he is very much shy since he loves to stay away from the limelight. I do not even know where he is right now the last time I saw him wandering about again. I hope he is fine and doing his job well in it.

Looks like it that is why I added some more so there wouldbe some more activity in the tanks. If everything goes ok from here then I might finally stopped my adding of fish anymore.

I am doing my best to make it ok. I just did a partial water change today to remove the debris on the ground. I am glad that my siphon hose arrived today I could now remove the waste in my sand.

Those thing are to be expected in an aquarium. I can never tell if there’s no mores casualty

That is true and that challenges me how to do about it. The expert say to buy this and that but I could not afford anymore. I just looke for the signs that popped out whenever there out of balance in the tank. Algaes are good indicator that life has already established in my tank yet if they thrive uncontrollably then its a sign there is something wrong with my tank. So I rely on those things to know what I need to know about them.