A week or so ago I added three amano shrimp to this tank, but didn't see carapace nor antenna of them afterward, so I was thinking that they got eaten by the other tank denizens. Today I was pleasantly surprised to find two of them chilling on the filter outtake after a water change! I'm happy to know that at least those two made it, and it gives me hope that the third is hanging around somewhere I just can't see, too.
The other piece of news about this tank is that I'm thinking I'll make an effort to more consistently clean the filter sponges. Planted tanks are huge waste producers, and I don't have the "full system" - sand doesn't do much for you in waste-recycling capacity. I may have to pick up some laterite and seed the substrate with it as an informal experiment.
On the cichlid front, I managed to use the fish trap to catch the socolofi! The clever little nuisance was so wary of going in to get the tasty treat that I had to leave it in the tank overnight, and he even managed to escape the first time I went to grab it! But then I managed to get it out with him in it, so now he and the bullied acei are ready to be rehomed. Hopefully the community will be better for those two fishes' absence - the male saulosi has already colored up quite strongly! That particular fish was just too aggressive and territorial for my setup. Now I just need some more saulosi females, I need some more yellow to balance out all the orange from the red zebras.
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