After a month - updated photo

After a month of my hard work on maintain the tank, now it's looking better and with healthy plants, the Red Cherry cleaned up a lot of algae on the stone and leaves. Biweekly change water also helping a lot on reduce the algae from propagates, trimmed a lot infected leaves and minor rescape done in the past month.

Later will consider add in some fishes, but afraid of the young shrimps can't survive long. So far, I am happy with only shrimps & planted tank. Need to keep the shrimps healthy, I think with the algae inside is insufficient for them, will buy some shrimp's food to feed them soon.

I will be back in aquatic plants soon!!

Well, in year of 2009 really a busy year for me, I hope in the year 2010 too. Need to keep my spirit in this hobby since I got a placement #230 in ADA IAPLC 2009, but will stop for a year join in that contest.

The old 3' tank has grew with lots of algae, lack of maintenance. Will get a whole new smaller tank to set up with the aquascape, and try to keep everything in low maintenance is the most important. I have found that the Red Cherry in the old tank really looks like chilly red & healthy, may be I didn't dose any chemicals since last year June, cause it won't wash off the colour.

My worry now is how do I move the stuffs over from the old tank at my old house, started my journey to look for a new tank and will try to upgrade with some new system instead of all in DIY. When short of time to maintain, the whole tank really looks like sh*t. I wish my-self a good luck in setting up a new small tank.

They are family, algae eater.

Close up view of the Yamato, Red Cherry, Red Crystal shrimps and snail.

like the cool face of 'Yamato' shrimp, like wearing a cap.

Red Crystal Shrimp (RCS)

a tiny little guy, always busy with their food.

Red Cherry

RCS on the vege farm.

A pregnant Red Cherry.

a busy RCS is searching around for food.

Little guy swims around

After seeing these little guys all over the plants and ground, I had felt more easy and not so worry about the water quality problems. Nothing happened since the last adult Red Cherry had been eaten by others until today. Still need to keep any eye on the tank too.

Attacked or died naturally??

Oh gosh! What happened to my Red Cherry shrimp? Ate by Amano shrimp............ =.=
I was afraid the water quality still unstable, cause the shrimp died, tested the pH 6.2 and KH 2.0 by this morning , after calculated the CO2 level is 37.86ppm, it should not be the cause of killing the shrimp. Is a big question mark to me now.