Long Overdue

Life outside the front door created a couple of adventures for me the last year.  This blog was sadly neglected right along with the aquariums; circumstances beyond and whatnot.  It seems Blogger underwent yet another renovation; good time to give Aqua~gillie a facelift.  As with most things where creative control is not wide open, there will be tweeks.

10g~Shrimparium; Aponogeton ulvaceus, 

Three tanks are running at the moment; two 10g and a 5g.  Of the 10g, one is fish and the other shrimp.  The 5g is meant to be a grow-out but life's adventures interrupted the plans.

10g Shrimparium:

•  Flourite Black substrate
• Cryptocoryne lutea
• Aponogeton ulvaceus 
• Aponogeton ulvaceus seedlings
• Peacock moss wall
• Mystery plant
• Red Cherry Shrimp

10g~Fish:

• 80% gravel/20% Flourite black
• Mopani driftwood
• Anubias
• Java Fern
• maybe a stray C. lutea
• 1 adult Sunset Mollie ~ with a herd of babies
• 1 White Cloud Mountain minnow
• 2 American Ghost/Grass shrimp
• 1 Olive nerite snail
• Malaysian Trumpet snails

Tiger lotus

5g Grow-out:

• Aquarium gravel
• Peacock moss coconut husk
• Cryptocoryne lutea baby plants
• 3 Marimo Cladophora aegagropila
•  Tiger lotus
• more Red Cherry shrimp

After doing a moderate clean-up in all three tanks, things are returning to normal.  The flourite in the 10g~Shrimparium needs a thorough vacuuming; it will have to wait until the A. ulvaceus seedlings are large enough to transplant into the grow-out and the mother plant dies back in about a month.


In the meantime, check out the
AQ Advisor link in the Tools section.  In the short time this aquarium livestock tool has been available, almost a thousand freshwater species have been added as well as a salt water calculator and a new forum.  Stop by and show the AQ Advisor some love!