One of the useful things about posting about your tank on this forum is that you can track back through events like a diary.
Unfortunately both the tiddler gourami I added in Feb have now passed away. They didnt seem to grow a lot actually which also concerns me... dont know if anyone has ever had a similar experience?
Anyways, I don't seem to be having much longevity out of them (5 months) so will give them a miss from now on.
I did appreciate their different behaviour though... does anyone know of if anything similar (small, lives higher in the tank and with a bit of personality)?
In other news I found a shrimp stuck inbetween two parts of a filter guard/media holder thing today which ended in me having to cut the plastic and bend it back to rescue it... stupid thing... it must have been there a while to get so stuck whilst feeding on the tasties on the filter media!
I've had a bit of a shrimp explosion recently. The new ram just doesn't view them as food... that said theres not been any baby shrimp for a long time so who knows...
Cories doing well too though I find it hard to tell if they are getting enough food with all the shrimp around...
Cleaned the filter media out today... which was definately due! Have hatched a plan to diy build an external filter including heater in a tupperware though my wife needs a little convincing first.
But of a ramble but a brief update... everyone else doing swimmingly