I love them, they are pretty easy to care for, I find they do well in groups and in planted setups. They are pretty easy to breed but the eft stage needs a terrestrial enclosure.
They take to food pretty will too, I feed chopped up worms, pellets, and frozen food. They can live 20 years too!

Thanks, I’m excited to see how everything matures

It’s pennywort :)

Hey that’s the fun part, aquarium keeping is a craft that takes trying things out, failing, then trying something new out. Eventually you’ll have your own unique way that works for you 😎

So wood will add tannins to the water. A lot of fish like tannins, I know bettas do. But tannins do turn the color of the water a gold/brown hue. Technically tannins should fight against fungal infections. It’s always a good idea to sterilize the wood with boiling water if it’s wild sourced.

Everything looks good though, I bet you’ll see fast results if you switch to a substrate rooted plant

Absolutely, I would focus on plants that want to have their roots in the substrate. I’d avoid stem plants and try something like jungle val or Amazon swords. The Java fern prefers to root onto wood and will feed from the water, but are still great plants.
I’ve had the best luck with jungle val. 😎

Thank you, it started out as a tiny cutting in 2019. Rainwater is my trick to make them happy 😎

I would do a ten gallon or something to experiment with. I prefer nano tanks and it’s a low cost/space way to experiment.

My secret weapon is putting a little bit of mud in from a clean mountain steam at the bottom, only thing is it can’t have any fish in it to reduce risk of parasites.

It’s been running for 7 years and it’s remained very stable, I find the tanks I’ve had without filtration seems to be worse off for it over the long run

It’s technically a bit of a hybrid, it’s actually a fluval sea tank that I repurposed into a walstad style freshwater tank. But it had a sump style filter so I basically put a sponge pad on the overflow and filled the rest with bio media.

I’ve noticed these for sale under orchid cactus too, but yeah as far as I can tell it’s a pseudo Rhipsalis. I mean that berry confirms it in my eyes. orchid cacti fruits are quite different.