Christmas is coming early to the 64litre
(doddery Santa emoji)
I have new Spider wood soaking currently and new led lights on the way.
This is the first real step I'm taking towards the eventual upgrade of the tank to a 140 litre aquaoak. Nothing will be rushed along the journey though and I've certainly got no plans to actually upgrade any time soon so no-one need get too excited!
I do have a well researched plan of what I want the upgraded tank to look like and so the 2 pieces of wood are destined for the upgrade tank. They will replace one of the chunky pieces of wood in my current tank giving more water volume for me now (ie better water quality/space for more fish possibly...) and will be arranged alongside an existing piece in what will essentially be a more compact version of the arrangement in the new tank.
The lighting is to try and get my current plants growing - hopefully I am right that my current cheap underpowered led lighting is currently the limiting factor to plant growth. With this new lighting i hope I can keep what i have now alive and grow them bigger for use in the new tank. Any plants purchased for the new tank can them be established in my current tank first too, or that's the plan anyway! As I write this I also think I may have come up with a cunning plan to reuse this lighting in the new tank... I'll investigate this in the morning!
At some point next year I hope to be able to change my current gravel substrate to sand too. Again this is the plan for the new tank because I want to keep corys. I want to be able to move as much beneficial bacteria over to the new tank as possible to avoid what I can in terms of any fish in cycling that will have to be done so again this will be a tactical move (I get the feeling a few pygmy corys might make their way into my current tank though!).
This will leave a rock swap out and a filter to get cycled before the big move whenever that may be.
Rest assured I'll get some piccys posted when the new wood is in place.