Schoaling species numbers successfully increased. I now have 6 harlequins and 6 cardinal tetra (is a slightly odd mixture of sizes!).
I also picked up 6 rummy nose tetras which have been schoaling beautifully this afternoon. I have wanted rummy nose for a long time now. They look so much more impressive in the tank then they did in the little tank at the LFS... they are all swimming in a tight group back and forth across the front of the tank.
The new harlequins almost seem to have a thin white 'neon' stripe (like on a black neon tetra) above the black "lambchop"... not sure if I'm making this up, or if it will fade with age but they certainly look very impressive.
The store has some really nice honey gourami in which are a gorgeous deep orange colour so 2 of these were picked up as well.
I'll get some photos of all of these tomorrow.
Next weekend I will get 2 more of each of the schoaling species to bring the numbers up to 8, and 2 more gourami. I will then be about 70% stocked and I don't think I will want to go much further than that.
Unfortunately there has been one casualty.. the golden ram never looked quite right and it had an "off day" on Wed, was fine Thursday, back to behaving strangely on Friday and unfortunately it died overnight. The other rams are doing fine and I think this was just a poorly fish from the store, these bred colour forms of the rams are known to be weak genetically also.
In other news, I have also been using the new "theaquascaper complete liquid plant food" and must say it is doing wonders for the plant which are now growing faster than I've ever
I would definitely recommend it. It even comes with a little syringe to dose it accurately. You will probably be able to see the growth in tomorrow's photo.
Finally, I have also fitted a light into the cabinet below the tank as it can be very hard to see what you're doing in there, possibly due for the depth and the contrastingly bright lights above it.