the 45 is ready-

I've been running it for three months now. My youngest, and my husband, keep asking me when I'm going to get the angelfish. I'm pleased with the tangle of pothos roots, the arrangement of sticks (more or less) and how the tank performs with leaf litter- it continues to have only 5-10 nitrates end of each week, and the kuhlis seem to kick up enough mulm out from under the leaf litter when they energetically go searching for food, to keep it picked up by the filters. I would still rather wait for the apple snail to meet its natural end, although aqadvisor tells me I am totally fine with the stocking level.

I've found some nice young 'wild type' silvers at the lfs next town over...