The Cookie Crew

It's looking really good. Well done on bringing it to life again.

Thanks @daveyng ...     It's an Echinodorus Amazonicus...  just a small/young one... 

I do like the "Amazonicus" variety of Echinodorus and wish I'd known more about it when first setting up the tank...  By all accounts it is one of the smallest Amazon Swords and I have a bunch of older ones along the left hand end of the tank - they seem to stay under control nicely, especially compared to the Echinodorus 'Bleherae' Amazon Sword that's just behind the one you mention and a fraction to the left...  I have to routinely remove some enormous leaves from that bugger, but the Amazonicus can be more or less just left alone... 

At the mo, I'm just anxious that they'll continue to be ok without the liquid carbon, but I'm thinking that with the significantly reduced light and the modest fertiliser routine, now that I am including the macros, everything should hopefully be ok, just perhaps slow down a tad - which I don't mind... 

I'm so excited...!!!       

After waiting patiently for them to become available again, I have just snagged two of the Red Racer Nerite snails (Vittina waigiensis)...  Really pleased right now - daft though, innit, over snails...   

Great news - when getting mine, it was a close contender between the red and orange ones; ultimately I opted for the orange but would definitely get the red as a(n) additional/subsequent snail, subject to availability, of course. Looking forward to seeing pics after it arrives and settles in.

Incidentally, do your tetras leave the shrimp alone? I'd like to get some shrimp but would be concerned about my x-rays harassing them and would probably freak out if I caught one chomping on one. 

Certainly will sort a photo once they're here and in the tank... 

There are some great looking Horned Nerites...  another tempting CUC member...   

@fcmf  no problems with the Tetras and the Amanos...  There has been the odd occasion where it looked like a fish may have taken a tentative poke at the shrimp, but it's not easy to tell if that's just the shrimp doing that instantaneous reverse gear thing if a fish gets too close, but even that is rare and happens even less now that they're all familiar with each other etc...  If anything, it was the Platies which were the worst for that, those two blue ones that had a brief stay at Cookie Towers before being shipped right on back to Wharf...  The orange/red Platy can be a bugger too, but his sin is to chase the Red Phantom Tetras rather than hassling the shrimps...  If I could catch that little monkey, he'd be shipped off back to Wharf too, but he's a lot more canny than the two blue ones and is an accomplished net dodger...!!!   

They do indeed Helen, and many other whopping specimens, not least of all some gigantic common Plecos...!!!  And yes, by the way, that is the one indeed...  near the M1 junction for Mansfield (not sure of the J number)...  A bit further on and actually in Mansfield is the hugely impressive Pro-Shrimp, although I have as yet not managed to get to the place in person, but they are fantastic for plants and of course for an impressive line up of ornamental snails (which changes often as stuff becomes available etc...)

I used to live on t'other side of the Pennines myself, on the outskirts of Stockport and not far from the Derbyshire Border...  Still have many friends and family over that way...

I dunno if you are anywhere near Stockport Helen, but there is an equally amazing fish shop there too, called Abyss  ( http://www.abyssaquatics.co.uk/ )

Hooooray! New snails. 
Congratulations on your new arrivals. 

Here are the two new boys...  Please forgive the poor pics and glare from the tank glass etc...  but they're good enough to see them at least...