Actually, I am partially inspired by your biotope tanks as you always keep plants with large SANice work Andrew. Great to see how far your planted side of the hobby has come over the years.
The disaster is part human mistake, and part equipment. Milwaukee is a bad regulator as it is difficult to stabilize the injection rate. In my second planted 125, I use ISTA which I found to be much easier to stabilize.That’s a sharp looking tank I enjoyed reading through your thread. Sucks about the co2 bomb that went off in your aquarium, but it looks like you have recovered from it. Ive been tossing the idea of co2 for one of my tanks for some time now. Thanks for sharing.
I am not a purist and always like to mix African with American cichlid for variety interest as long as their water requirements and size are compatible. Cichlid actually get along better if they are more remotely than closely related.Nice tank, really cool how you got African lake cichlids with South American cichlids.