Im just going to start with my 20L...
Here is where the tank was at about Dec 25th...
Here is a detail of the anubis problem!!!
It has gone through a lot of changes in the past 2 years I have had it.. the plants are similar to what i started with and similar layout but density and location of plants has changed...some I tossed cuase just too had to get to work with my conditions and some were just not suitable for the tank..(anubis always had way too much algae growing on it and lately most of the nanas started to die slowly from rysome rot!!).
So I pulled out everything..much to the dismay of the 3 zebra loaches and platies in the tank. who only had a small pile of rocks to hide around as i plucked pulled and gathered all the remaining "live" hiding spots. The plants were all suffering..well the whole tank was suffering..from algae problems and there was just way too much MUCK and mess from rotting leavings in and on the substrate... I gravel vacumed the whole thing and now am starting with a new layout
As you can see the plants have a lot of "fuzzy" algae problems... all the dust settled on them and accentuate the problem. I took some of the fast growers and spread them out to a managable aquascape. This set up is very hard to maintain since the plants genetically like to grow taller than the tank will support so constant maitanence is needed. I purposefully took my rotala and broke the huge bunch right in half and the "stubbs" are planted in teh rear of the tank so that I can tripple my good stock in about a month or so when those plants develope I eliminated all but one anubias (those went to a cherry shrimp only tank where the schrimps had the plants naked of algea in about 2 days!) I instead filled the anubis area with good nutrient soaking crypts from my daughters tanks. ( I had bought a very small potted green and red crypt from a pet store last summer and now have about 10 times the amount I started with!!)
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Here is a four day update.. three images photoshop'd together.
Everything is comming along.. I will have to trim the front cluster of rotala but other than that the algea is slowly dying back again.. I just have some other problems that should work themselves out as time progresses.. I have backed off the ferts for the time being.. just some K and Phosphate and N once in a great while and a dab of PPDD two days ago...
Here is where the tank was at about Dec 25th...
Here is a detail of the anubis problem!!!
It has gone through a lot of changes in the past 2 years I have had it.. the plants are similar to what i started with and similar layout but density and location of plants has changed...some I tossed cuase just too had to get to work with my conditions and some were just not suitable for the tank..(anubis always had way too much algae growing on it and lately most of the nanas started to die slowly from rysome rot!!).
So I pulled out everything..much to the dismay of the 3 zebra loaches and platies in the tank. who only had a small pile of rocks to hide around as i plucked pulled and gathered all the remaining "live" hiding spots. The plants were all suffering..well the whole tank was suffering..from algae problems and there was just way too much MUCK and mess from rotting leavings in and on the substrate... I gravel vacumed the whole thing and now am starting with a new layout
As you can see the plants have a lot of "fuzzy" algae problems... all the dust settled on them and accentuate the problem. I took some of the fast growers and spread them out to a managable aquascape. This set up is very hard to maintain since the plants genetically like to grow taller than the tank will support so constant maitanence is needed. I purposefully took my rotala and broke the huge bunch right in half and the "stubbs" are planted in teh rear of the tank so that I can tripple my good stock in about a month or so when those plants develope I eliminated all but one anubias (those went to a cherry shrimp only tank where the schrimps had the plants naked of algea in about 2 days!) I instead filled the anubis area with good nutrient soaking crypts from my daughters tanks. ( I had bought a very small potted green and red crypt from a pet store last summer and now have about 10 times the amount I started with!!)
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Here is a four day update.. three images photoshop'd together.
Everything is comming along.. I will have to trim the front cluster of rotala but other than that the algea is slowly dying back again.. I just have some other problems that should work themselves out as time progresses.. I have backed off the ferts for the time being.. just some K and Phosphate and N once in a great while and a dab of PPDD two days ago...