evolution of the 23 gallon tank

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I was looking through my photos and found a lot of old pictures of my little 23 gallon tank. Ive made a lot of changes and just wanted to show you how it has changed over time!

When I first got it, it was for my annoying, very shy texas cichlid:

 

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As time went on and the cichlid was still painfully shy (I had tried everything), we gave it away and decided to get two convict cichlids:

(sorry for the blurry picture, they were soo fast!)
*Note: this was around the time of an algae bloom

 

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The male kept attacking the female (because it wanted to breed) and nearly killed it, so we quickly rushed them both back to the store...

 

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after some thought I decided to give up cichlids and make a small, peaceful community tank.

I had some algae problems...

 

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After many weeks of fighting and disgust, I eventually got rid of the floating algae bloom:

And then of coarse another type of unstoppable algae had to kick in...

 

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And then of coarse another type of unstoppable algae had to kick in...

 

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After weeks and weeks of more fighting, I finally put my foot down and restarted:
The tank went downstairs, I got black gravel, 4 different types of plants and some nice driftwood and rocks, a black background etc.
It was a whole new tank!

 

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And here is a picture i took yesterday!

(Darn fish move so much)
Never been algae since I restarted! (of coarse it was the stupid window upstairs...)

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That is all that has happened so far, and I hope that is all (except for maybe the carpet plants growing a bit more) that happens, because i like it how it is! It is stable in water quality, and a pretty nice tank imo!

 

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The pics from the last 4 posts don’t work for me.