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Have only ever kept Cherry Shrimp in the past but the tank is now stripped down.

Now in the process of dry starting a new tank and will be planning to keep CRS with this one :cool-new:

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Welcome to the forum dude, we love pics here so throw up some progress pics of your tank, hope you have as much fun here as we do :encouragement:

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Welcome to SKF & back to the hobby.

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Welcome to SKF hope you enjoy our forum. Lots of information for you here:encouragement:

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That is going to look so good when it gets going:encouragement:

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Cool pic dude, nice looking tank, will be a stunner when it's grown a bit :encouragement:

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Love the tank .... so clean, looking forward to seeing how this progresses .. :)

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Thanks guys. Just starting to think now of how I'm going to scape it.

The DSM is taking forever!

Early battles with melt, white fungus, moss intertwined within the HC, humidity etc. It's taken almost 6 weeks for conditions to become stable! Hopefully it grows exponentially from now on :D

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Welcome to SKF mate, enjoy our forum.

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