"Der Ewige Kreis" - "The Eternal Circle" - To be Torn Down

[@marko@]

i usually plant most of the plants (or all of them) around the same time. they arent fish and dont care about ammonia in the water (unless it reaches monstrous levels) or nitrites. so plant away.

[fishman9809]

well, I'll try and order them 2day, the thing is, the echinodorus tellenus is being shipped to me for free by a guy I know, but he hasnt been online anywhere recently, so I dont know whats goin down.

[lauraleellbp]

Are you going with the regular E. tenellus or 'narrow'?

[fishman9809]

narrow, y? do you know any south american plant that looks like HC?

[lauraleellbp]

HC? No?

I was asking about the E. tenellus 1) b/c I didn't know what size you wanted (the 'narrow' stays about 2-3" tall but the regular gets about 5-6"tall) and 2) if you want some 'narrow' my offer still stands

[fishman9809]

so u dont know any plants from SA that look HC? I want a fine carpet with HC looks

[lauraleellbp]

Where's marselia minutia from? (being too lazy and sleepy ATM to look, myself LOL)

[fishman9809]

i'll check now.

[@marko@]

the only SA carpet plants i can think of are chain sword and micro sword.

[Buck]

Almost a month and 234 posts later and still no water in the box. I guess rome wasnt built in a day either... Nice sticks.

[@marko@]

at least he got a lot of people interested. nobody ever comes veiws my logs, maybe its because i only start them the day i put the plants in. i may do something with my eclipse three around september if my plants dont start growing better, maybe i should start a log now.

[fishman9809]

Thanks for tremendous complements. The first one from Buck made me smile, lol. I am Italian . I might get some plants on Tues/Wed, and the Fluval 204 will probably come on either thurs/fri. The plants the guy is sending me are stargrass, x-mas moss, and possibly a small sword he has, he has had it for a while and it has stayed small, so hopefully it is a small sword and doesnt grow. With the Fluval, he will ship some more of those lovely rocks I have, but bigger size, or possibly he might break them up again so it would be easier to find a good sized box. I need some purigen though, the tank should have cleared at least a little since last night, but its the same, purigen will help it along nicely!!!

[@marko@]

carbon might actually be better for get rid of the cloudiness. purigen is best for biochemicals, not little peices of almost microscopic rock; wheras carbon bonds to a whole bunch of stuff also, so its good chemical filtration, but the surface is full of tiny wholes that may be just the right size for silt getting stuck in them. purigen will help later though against algae outbreaks better then activated carbon.

i would reccomend getting the plants after the filter. it helps for you to set up the filter first so you can see where you can plant what due to flow, and how to best hide the intake (outake shouldnt be too hidden, or its flow is blocked, but i doubt anything will grow right in front of it anyway).

[fishman9809]

the reason the plants are coming first is because the dude I am getting the plants and flter from, is moving back and fortha dn cannot ship from work, so it is expensive, lol. I used activated carbon, but it doesnt seem to help.

[@marko@]

well, you dont have a filter. nothing will do much good just sitting there.