Wow, I can't believe this. Less than 24 hours in my tank, and I swear I'm seeing spawning behavior. Watching the fishes just a momen...

I am really pleasantly surprised. I fully expected to have a slight ammonia or nitrite spike this morning on the window tank. After all, I j...

From last night. I wish I had written this down sooner, because now I can't remember most of it... In the dream I'm at some kind o...

Brought home the adopted fishes today. I took as much care as I could with their transport to minimize stress. The prior owner had them ...

Window tank finished cycling this morning. I don't know why it always makes me so giddy-happy to see the pale blue in that little test t...

This one tallest stem of bacopa in the tenner, the leaf changed shape at the water surface. It's much rounder (compare to second pic...

Still cycling. Last stage takes the longest. I took this photo with a large sheet of white drawing paper as backdrop (yeah, there's a...

Main tank got too cool yesterday. I forgot the water in pipes probably still near freezing, and guess I added too much colder water with t...

The sweet potato cuttings are already sprouting roots. So are pothos cuttings in the window tank.

Over 50° today. Warm enough I have the cooler-tolerant plants in open air: broccoli, lettuces, borage- and it was nice to be able to leave t...

The flame moss I glued onto stones is growing up! I am loathe to trim it, although that might make it sprout more along the lengths and ge...

We had 4" of snow. It was heavy, wet snow and freezing rain in intervals- very icy. I'm glad I covered the plants. In the yard I ca...