Happy 2006!

Well, I'm back from my 2 week vacation, and the tanks appear to have survived. Both food tablets were completely gone, and the black neons were missing almost all their color, so I'm glad I got home when I did.

The 30-gal underwent some interesting transistions while I was gone. Without the daily Flourish treatments, the alage has made a rousing comeback, so I cut out the worst offenders, but I let a great deal of it alone, hoping the return of Fluorish will be enough to drive it away. Many of the foxtail stems have turned brown, and one looks nearly completely dead, so I am considering replanting them higher up. Speaking of which, that right-hand deep corner of the tank has opened up quite a bit, so that the neons have some space to hang out there under other foilage.

The star-grass has finally taken root in the dirt I layed down in a driftwood crevice, and it is growing quite well. Speaking of star-grass, the stuff planted in the substrate is doing well also, but it is growing a lot higher than I'd like, so I'm thinking it needs some more light. In that vein, I cleared out the now suffocatingly dense java moss and put it in the bucket. I'm really going to have to learn how to throw more stuff away than I do now...