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Hi Wings, this is belated, but HAPPY ANNIVERSARY. I can't believe it is more than 12 months since we were talking about your upcoming wedding. Congratulations on the new job too.

Loved looking at all your pictures. Shame the tanks have to shut down & you can't have them all at your new home.

Look forward to seeing your new setups, once you've settled in your new home.

Cheers
TW

TW,

Thanks for all the kind words!

Shame the tanks have to shut down & you can't have them all at your new home.

It's more about moving space. We are going to try and move using two cars and a 5 foot x 8 foot trailer. This move thing is starting to get a little stressful.

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The tank is starting to come down....

Here is a picture of the Anubias nana that I am starting to cut up and sell off.

In the beginning there was a small nana and then...well you saw the first picture.

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Here is a picture of my Java Fern. Does anyone else get growth like this? I am guessing I get it due to high light and CO2. Just my guess...

http://s4.photobucket.com/albums/y118/Wingsdlc/fern/?action=view&current=trileaf2.jpg
http://s4.photobucket.com/albums/y118/Wingsdlc/fern/?action=view&current=trileaf1.jpg

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wow, I always though anubias were slow growers. How long did it take to get to the end result?

Cheers
TW

TW,

About two years. Maybe 1.5 yrs.

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Well the tank is now drained, washed out and upside down on my back deck. It is a little sad.... but this just means I can try other things now.


This is the tank after 99% of the plant mass has been pulled out.

I was trying to clear up the water a little bit so I could catch what was left of my cherry shrimp.
Cherries in the 1.5G
A little bit of a closer shot

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Wings, Sad indeed , but think about the possibilities
I always think that setting up is one of the best parts of the hobby .
BTW , how many shrimp have you got !!!!?
Good luck with the move , hope it all goes well .

Garry

BTW , how many shrimp have you got !!!!?

Way more than I thought I had in there! I am pretty sure I didn't get them all either... poor guys....

I had about 3-4 Amano shrimp in there the first night. Yesterday morning there weren't any to be found in the tank. I am guessing they tried to make a run for it.

Right now we are in stage I of the move. In this stage we are packing our junk and moving across the street for a couple of weeks (our stuff in one house and us in another...). Once my wife is done working we are packing our stuff up in our cars and heading to North Carolina.

Thanks for the good wishes!


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Ugh....I hate moving. This is the first time in 5 years I'm not moving. I feel for ya. One year I had 7 tanks to move. After that I smartened up a little. I never did lose any fish or anything due to moving thankfully, but it was still tough.

Good luck to ya. Nice lot of cherry shrimp BTW.

Also I have seen growth like that on java fern. It's actually a cultivated variety. Yours seems to have both normal and tri-lobed growth, which is odd.

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Also I have seen growth like that on java fern. It's actually a cultivated variety. Yours seems to have both normal and tri-lobed growth, which is odd.

The tri-lobe growth is something that is kind of new. It started doing it in the past 5-6 months.

This time around I am cutting my tanks down to three. 55G, 20G long, and a 1.5G. I did have 2-55G's, 40G, 29, and 1.5G set up. Being I am moving 12 hours away I figured I should down grade.

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Wings , Saw you comment on one of Ingo's logs , are you all unpacked in your new home .... Started setting up the tanks yet ???

Garry

Yep, we made it! The trip down here was a bit crazy but all worked out well. It seemed that if it could have gone wrong, it did. I can explain more later if you really want.

As far as tanks go. I have a 20G long set up bare bottom for fish/plants storage. Most of the plants have been taken out and planted but a few haven't yet.

The tank I am working on first is a 55G. It is mainly going to be planted with anubias, java ferns, cryps, and vals. I will probably plant the foreground with 4-LC. I still don't have a digital camera so I can't quite share pictures of where I am at with the tank so I don't know if I will actually start a log for the tank.

Thanks for checking in!

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