Low Tech 29 Gallon of Amazing Unamazement

[LetThereBeFish]

Today my tank recieved a well needed trim. Now I can actually see my hygro and the wendtii are recieving light again. Speaking of crypts... They are now melting . Must be from that sudden ph drop earlier. Hopefully they'll bounce back.
The lotus is being a darling and shoot a bunch of surface leaves and the hatchets are loving the surface cover. Not sure if it will flower though. And yes, the lotus is all tangled with the apon... I'll fix it....someday....if I'm not lazy...

So here is an update pic ENJOY!!

[LetThereBeFish]

Good night FTS!


Lotus leaves

[thefisherman]

i love the progress bro... hey i might of asked this before but, is that (green center) an Aponogeton Ulvaceaus? :O




- thefisherman

[LetThereBeFish]

Naw, its crispus...or is it undultus?...longiplumulosus?...You know, a lot of apons look the same! Lets make it easy...its crisplumundultus..

[LetThereBeFish]

Did a major horror hack n slash on this tank. I removed half of the bocopa, half the hygro compact, and moved the lotus away from the apon. Still not sure where to put it exactly. Oh and I unknownly sepertated the bulb from the lotus. Will the main plant be affected because of this?
Vals are still not doing what vals are suppose to do.....GROW!!
On a fish note, I noticed my rams are getting very vibrant again, so maybe there will be eggs again......Hmmmmmmm....Maybeee??

Soooooo pics!


I hope no one want bocopa... I really need to setup a paypal account, so I can sell this stuff.


Cory having a pleasant breakfast


Ram disrupting said breakfast with a photo bomb


Corys breakfast now ruined by rams

[LetThereBeFish]

*Update* I was getting kinda tired of the scape, so I re-arrange the tank. I'm giving the vals time to shine and put them where the light is stronger. Hopefully they will now actually grow vertically. I also bought some more crypt wendtii and some other crypt that might be wendtii too, and rotala indica. So hopefully the plants will settle in and the crypts won't melt to non-existence.

[GMYukonon24s]

You have beautiful fish and tank. Nice pics.

[tatersalad]

I like the new rescape!

[LetThereBeFish]

Thanks for the kind words fellas

Here are some plant/fish shots. They were being photogenic and I couldn't resist

ENJOY!

Ozelot Sword


Ludwigia Repens


Harlequin Rasporas - I never knew they could get so red.




Bolivian Ram


BNP

[crazydaz]

Seems like you have a pretty nice setup yourself, mister! I really like this tank and the rescape. Did you get your lotus to flower? I've let them before, and I am trying to get mine to. Very pretty and fragrant.

nice plant and fish variety Bro! Looks great!

[LetThereBeFish]

Originally Posted by crazydaz

Seems like you have a pretty nice setup yourself, mister! I really like this tank and the rescape. Did you get your lotus to flower? I've let them before, and I am trying to get mine to. Very pretty and fragrant.

nice plant and fish variety Bro! Looks great!

Thanks man! Means alot. But it still pales in comparison to your 200 gallon of majestic and omnipotent beauty No, I didn't get the lotus to flower. I let it shoot about 6-7 surface leaves and I didn't see any signs of it sending a bloom, so I trimmed it. Plus, I don't have an open top, so Im not sure how the flower would fit. Would be awesome for it to flower though.

[LetThereBeFish]

Here's a (Just to let you know I'm not dead) FTS

[LetThereBeFish]

*UPDATE* One word to describe my tank: NEGLECT! For the past 1-2 months, I really just let the tank do its thing aka it never really did anything. I've been busy with school and work, so I didn't really have time to focus on the tank. The apon crispus suffered the most; melting alot of its leaves. The crypts did grow back from their seemingly constant rearranging. I still dont get why the vals arn't growing vertically.... Still! Maybe its because I haven't refilled the co2 in a loooong while... Fish wise... Nothing different. They're swimming, eating, and pooping. The life of a fish.

Today I went to ThatFishPlace and got a few more plants. BIG MISTAKE!! I now have too many plants to figure out where to put them. I keep forgetting that I have a 29g and not a 60g. I got some larger crypt spiralis, lucens, and pennywort. I also got some rotala macranda and glosso. These two are just experimental. I highly doubt the macranda will last a month, but I just wanted to see if it would grow. It was cheap, so who gives a whoopdedoo! XD Glosso might make it, but who knows.

So here are some long needed pics.






Will you two start making babies already! > _ <

[LetThereBeFish]

*Re-arrange* I want to do something with the rocks to save space and make more room for the plants, but I need ideas. I would appreciate some suggestions. I dont't want to get rid of them, since my rams use them as egg laying sites.



And I forgot to mention that my Nesaea is starting to grow back from its shriveled up state.