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It all started months ago with a single-leaf variegated monster albo cutting. Then it mutated into an obsession independent of the source of its inception 🥲 (still very much obsessed with my monstera cutting)
Help me review my set up please. Any foreseeable mistakes and what should I do about them? Suggestions for improvement aesthetically, design/engineering, or planting tips?
Position is north facing on east coast Australia (cold but not freezing winters, scorching summers), but only a couple meters from a 2 storey building, so almost zero direct sunlight 🥲
Rubber mat underlay
200L fibreglass planter (hopefully) waterproofed and and sealed (60x60x60cm)
Zeolite coarse sand substrate
Pre-filter sponge + red scoria blockade, intake on the right against-wall corner
5000L/hr pump running at minimum capacity pumping water up to about 3m height
4 baby goldfish (2 fantails, 2 orandas) about 4cm each introduced about 3 weeks ago after 5 weeks cycling, currently being fed about 48hrly as temps are around 4-16 degrees Celsius (I have noticed they like to hang around the filter when they're not begging for food - is it for warmth? 🥲
Pond planted with milfoil, hornwort, elodia
Floating: water lettuce, sad remains of Amazon frogbit, sad remains of azolla ferns
Marginals: water iris, pink rolata
Covered with plastic mesh
About 60L of LECA in 20 vertical planters
A gazillion cuttings living off hopes and dreams (of the ones I can remember: orange jessamine, basil, spider plants, monstera, jasmine, climbing rose, tradescantia, pothos, Lilly pily, nasturtium, sage, spring onions)
Also looking to maybe add medaka, pond snails and crystal shrimp but I feel all of these need more hiding places otherwise I'm afraid the goldfish might decimate their population