Fluval Edge

This was the state of affairs on Feb.1:

In the meantime I’ve dismembered some Chladophora, anchored down a bit of Najas guadalupensis (we’ll see how long that stays put) and gradually moved over the rasboras and the CRS. I still haven’t got all of the air bubbles out of the top. I’ll have to go find that algae magnet. But for what it’s worth, here’s my first poke at Iwagumi:

I took my time (you should have seen me sitting on the floor at Big Al’s arranging rocks on my little tank sized newspaper piece). I introduced the fish and shrimp 3 per day, even though I had material from their old tank for bacteria. They all seem to be doing well so far.

Substrate is normal Estes Black Marine Sand. Since I’m not going to play with the light, I figured my plants won’t need any nutrients beyond what the fish supply for free.

I kept moving the rocks around, because there was always an angle from which I didn’t like them, and it took me a while for the algae pieces to stay where I wanted them. I thought I could just insert come pebbles, but those things fall apart just where you don’t want them to. I also find you need a few contortionist genes to arrange anything through that opening.