window tank overheads

These are my favorite photos from the other day. I took the trouble to clean the glass tops- ugh, the rear pane was particularly dirty with brown algae and scum. Took some overhead shots while I was working there. Among my favorite plants- the crypts becketti:

Here's the grand growth on the younger crypt moehlmanii. Bolbitis thicket behind it, Laddie the paradise fish is in front of course he was looking for handouts. Crinum is front right.

Left front corner of the tank- the small remainders of crypts willisii, anubias newly tied on driftwood in back left corner, older crypt moehlmanii front center, slender leaf of a crypt undulata I moved last week in the center.

The bolbitis thicket! It looks so beautiful from this top angle- that's the rear tank glass on the top edge of the photo. I just wish this one was a bit more in focus:

Likewise the hygro (or is it ludwigia?) stems: they turn to face and touch the rear glass, which looks like the top surface here:

Looking down at the small clump of crypt undulata in the rear. To the left, ludwigia arcuata. Some bolbitis tied on small wood chunks across center- hard to see them. Subwassertang makes a green smudge below it all.

Better view of the ludwigia arcuata. Bolbitis thicket on the left. One piece of mermaid weed center. Sweet potato vine roots reaching down.

Another view of the ludwigia/is-it-hygro stems, up against one of the sponge filters. Can see how thin the windelov ferns are (compared to those in the betta tank!)

I took this photo trying for the elodea stem, but really it shows off Laddie the paradise fish (and some crypt becketti on the right).

Can see in several of those photos above, how washed out and brown the salvinia minima is. I think it just can't compete with other plants for nutrients, especially now that the sweet potato vines have grown tons of roots? maybe I'll have to phase it out and let elodea be the floating plant . . .