The Planted Tank Forum - View Single Post - 55g in progress (dialup warnin)

**pet-teez** · 04-25-2008, 07:13 PM

I'm serious. I really do.
You can see some in that picture with the snail/moss/glosso...
I stood there for about an hour the other night plucking duckweed off the top of the tank (after taking out the Ludwigia, which is still in a bucket waiting to be planted) and the next day I looked and some had been released by plants/wood, etc where it was hiding the night before... I'm really trying to keep it out of that tank. yuck.

Anywho.
I have that poll set up right now about adding my Clouds to this tank at some point, my original plan was to set them up in a 20g tall with driftwood, Java ferns, moss and Hygro and have them with CRS and Snowballs but a friend said I shouldn't keep the CRS/Snows with fish and another friend said the Clouds would be so happy in the 55g.
But (there always is one you know)
In the 55g I'm already going to have a random unschooling group of fish, the Endlers. I don't know that I want two random unschooling groups in the tank (my Clouds don't really school. they kind of play tag). Plus it was brought up that with the angels in there I most likely wouldn't have comfortable Clouds and I wouldn't get their nice colors (right now they look awesome, loads of red, etc) and if I remember right I've read that keeping hyper fish with Angels isn't a very good idea.
Sooooo I'm really back to thinking I want CRS/Snows in my 20g tall with my Clouds.
I have 10/11 Clouds so that would be ok in the 20g.

In case your wondering, I'm hoping to get my number of aquariums (full of water) to two. 6 tanks all together (including a 40g breeder tank for a leopard gecko & a 65g paludarium) So I don't want the 55g, a tank just for the Clouds and a tank just for shrimp. If the Clouds went in to the 55g the CRS/Snows would have a 15g themselves, but I would prefer to set up the Clouds and shrimp in my 20g.

Ok, back to the 55g.
I still need to put christmas moss on the Malaysian wood, swap the Hygro for the Ludwigia and do some other things in there... *sigh* so many projects so little time (and motivation). lol

04-25-2008, 07:13 PM	#52 (permalink)
pet-teez Planted Member (View User Tanks) PTrader: (13) Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Oceanside, CA Posts: 259	I hate Duckweed. I'm serious. I really do. You can see some in that picture with the snail/moss/glosso... I stood there for about an hour the other night plucking duckweed off the top of the tank (after taking out the Ludwigia, which is still in a bucket waiting to be planted) and the next day I looked and some had been released by plants/wood, etc where it was hiding the night before... I'm really trying to keep it out of that tank. yuck. Anywho. I have that poll set up right now about adding my Clouds to this tank at some point, my original plan was to set them up in a 20g tall with driftwood, Java ferns, moss and Hygro and have them with CRS and Snowballs but a friend said I shouldn't keep the CRS/Snows with fish and another friend said the Clouds would be so happy in the 55g. But (there always is one you know) In the 55g I'm already going to have a random unschooling group of fish, the Endlers. I don't know that I want two random unschooling groups in the tank (my Clouds don't really school. they kind of play tag). Plus it was brought up that with the angels in there I most likely wouldn't have comfortable Clouds and I wouldn't get their nice colors (right now they look awesome, loads of red, etc) and if I remember right I've read that keeping hyper fish with Angels isn't a very good idea. Sooooo I'm really back to thinking I want CRS/Snows in my 20g tall with my Clouds. I have 10/11 Clouds so that would be ok in the 20g. In case your wondering, I'm hoping to get my number of aquariums (full of water) to two. 6 tanks all together (including a 40g breeder tank for a leopard gecko & a 65g paludarium) So I don't want the 55g, a tank just for the Clouds and a tank just for shrimp. If the Clouds went in to the 55g the CRS/Snows would have a 15g themselves, but I would prefer to set up the Clouds and shrimp in my 20g. Ok, back to the 55g. I still need to put christmas moss on the Malaysian wood, swap the Hygro for the Ludwigia and do some other things in there... sigh so many projects so little time (and motivation). lol __________________ -Cassie S.