With the upcoming move pending, I have let my tank go into a stand still. I have been preoccupied with signing paperwork for the new home. It’s ridiculous how many stacks of paper have to be signed. There are clauses for radon, asbestos, termites, earthquakes, mudslides, and I think I saw one in there about Godzilla attacks. I digress. I haven’t purchased the rest of the plants I wanted to fill in the areas that need some planting, because I figure I’m going to have to pull them up and replant them later. My dosing schedule for fertilizers has gone out the window as well. Still, my plants seem to be growing decently, which exposes another problem for me. I haven’t trimmed my plants in a while.

You can see here that my Wisteria is engulfing my Moai. That’s a single plant, growing around both sides of the decoration. The Red Temple needs to be clipped into a couple more stems as it’s starting to reach into the spray bar of my filter return. The Ludwigia is already there, swaying with the current. I don’t even want to know what the roots look like in the substrate.