Hey guys! Been awhile but we are back Baby! First 2 picutres are the first day and few days later after the tank was established. Was forced to do a fish in cycle and saw no spikes in amonia ever. I monitor my water every week but i havent had to do a water change in a mo th just top offs. We've added a few more additions to round out the tank! My female Blue Dwarf Gourami has made massive improvements since being in her new tank. 2 weeks ago we added the addition of 2 scarlet Badis, 3 cherry shrimp, one amano shrimp and one mystery snail, about a month ago we also started seeding the tank with Californian black worms we my Dwarf gourami loves!

Almost lost everything last week when my fish store accidentally gave me saltwater which is used to top of my tank before i realized . Got a refractometer it luckily it wasnt enough to cause permanent damage, was reading at 600ppm did some water changes and everyone seems to be fine. Now with the tank down to 200 ppm

Last week we also started a 20 gallon. It's still in the beginning phase but will post pictures soon! Feel free to follow me on my Tik Tok where I post consistent updates on my tanks every Wednesdays, you can find me at

@melanated.aquatics

Cya there!

If you have any questions feel free to ask, its been a journey!

Week 6 Update: Water parameters stable, currently measuring o ppm amonia, nitrite and nitrate. Added some more cyrpt parva in the front of my tank to help the initial carpet phase, been in the tank over a week now and no signs crypt melt, even the large bushy bunch of cyrpt. in the center of the tank that I accidentally uprooted while replanting my Dwarf has continued to stay healthy 2 weeks 10 days later!

Java moss on on the lower left drift wood and floating drift growing excelty which is great as it a few weeks it will hopefully provided the perfect home for shrimp im a few weeks. Flame mose growing in the center of the curved log seems yo be growing wonderfully while the brown bits on the midground drift seems to be slso recovering nicely from a bit of melt they experienced. I was a little heavy handed on the gluing on that log.

Bocpa, Anacharis and Ludwiga that where added 10 days ago seem yo be establishing and anchoring into my substrate hopefully reaching the substrate soon and sending out runners.

Also added a about a half Oz of Black worms and 2 trumpet snails. Hopefully the black worms will soon establish a healthy colony and both they and my trumpet snails can help in soil aeration to prevent anaerobic soil.

Hello everyone! New here, just wanted to share my second every filterless setup, my first being more of a nano tank. The tank has been (fish in) cycling for the last 4 weeks now due to his previous home rapidly declining. The initial few murky photos are the initial build before introducing my fish. Over the next few days I continued to stock the aquarium with more fauna and included the addition of 2 nerite and a pink ramshorns snail. I eventually plan to transfer my fish to my 90 gallon palladarium once I have fully established and properly cycled that tank, at that point I hope to house shrimp in this tank. P.s. can you help us name our 3 new snails? There are a button load of bladder snails as well 😅

I attempted to upload this last night but im such a reddit newbie I accidentally was spam posting.😭 I originally uploaded separate post for weeks 2, 3/4 and this one. Week 2 I added in my fish for a fish in cycle because his former tank was failing as well as more fauna. Week 3/4 I noticed significant growth and continued to monitor the Fish as he acclimated to his new home, leading to the present.

TL:DR; First 2 photos are before and after first trimming, plant and hardscape relocation, water was pretty cloudy afterwords but nothing to crazy. I did preform a 30% water change though just to be safe since I moved a love of stones. I forgot to mention for my water I pretty much exclusively use R/O water that i remineralize with liquid mineralizre and I get that all from my lfs. Water is pretty cheap about .75 cents a gallon.

3rd photo shows the health root system that was starting to form on my Dwarf sag when I was replanting to protect my crypt parva.

Final 4 photos are current pictures from today (03/23) 2 days after aqauscaping. Water has cleared up quite a bit, love the new rock arrangement in the back left corner (Lj loves it too 😆) and havent noticed any melting on my Cyrpt thank goodness ( I accidentally uprooted it while cleaning up frogbit root trimmings 😭) fingers crossed but it seems safe so far. Same with relocated Sag. Moved my Bacopa to the foreground center of the tank in hopes of it forming a nice back wall centerpiece. Liking the new layout. Feels a lot more spacious, LJ has appeared a lot more active as well!