here's Ruby

I looked back on early photos when I first got him- five months ago!- and notice the pale blue scales across his back are increasing in number.

His tank had a few changes recently. I pulled off the oldest anubias from the driftwood- leaving an empty-feeling space in the middle of the tank-

There's left tucked among the windelov fern, smaller anubias leaves from where I once cut the rhizome to encourage more growth

It also looks empty because I trimmed off a large portion of the subwassertang- wow, it's healthy now! nice, rounded shapes not small and dense like in the unheated tank.

The ludwigia palustris is starting to sprout new leaves- can barely see it left of center here, in the back.

I'm not entirely happy with the water wisteria I planted in here- seems out-of-scale with the rest of the plants. It looks scruffy. It doesn't keep the nicely fingered ferny-looking leaves, but hasn't converted to smooth-edged leaves entirely, either. Something in between. But I'm waiting to see if it is actually done changing form. Ruby likes to rest on its horizontal leaves, making me reluctant to take it out. I kinda wish I had ludwigia repens in here again, instead.

I pulled out the crypt lutea that was in this corner, and kept just the becketti. The crypt parva are slowly filling in. I moved some stones with small, round buces on them from the side wall- where they were hard to see under the wisteria-

put them under edge of windelov ferns (don't know what happened to that one ragged leaf! maybe it hit the heater)

Here's the front row. Still wondering if my windelov in here is doing poorly overall, or just needs time to adjust still.

The anubias on the driftwood was looking unwell, but these on the right side of the tank are fine. Perhaps because the new filter pushes all the floaters to the front and right of the tank- so the driftwood spot is no longer shaded.

I'm eagerly waiting for the buce 'Selena's to get tall enough I can take cuttings again

Tooth of a horned nerite. That's a buce root reaching out under the snail into a glass corner