This is my first journal. Just rescaped today so I figured, I will start a journal to document the growth and development of the tank. I love low maintenance tanks because I do not have time to manicure and rescape every week.
Filter: 75 Gal Sump
Light: 2x 80 Watts T5, Finnex Rays 2 LED for 8 hours
Water Change: It is hooked up to my automatic water change system so it gets 8% water change per day.
Fert: Modified IE through my auto dosing system.
CO2 : Pressurized CO2 system, it goes on 1 hrs before the light is on and off 30 minutes before the light goes off.
Substrate: ECO Complete mixed ADA Aquasoil Amazonian
Fish: Few Ginga Rubra guppies, few cardina tetra, a few otos (started with 30 of them), a couple of cories.
Lesson learned... don't mixed the macro fert with GH in the same container!
I placed an order for Crypt Flamingo yesterday... Now I'm anxiously waiting for it to come. It will be in a gel culture. So it will be exciting and challenging to try to convert it over. I tried it about one year ago and failed. Hopefully with more experience and time, I will dip my feet into it again! I might have a few specimens extra... if anyone interested, please PM me.
I redid my macro fert last night. As I emptied out the fert container, everything was caked and precipitated. It was a hot mess. Definitely, the solution had reached super saturation. I had a layer of Ca at the bottom and Mg on top of the Ca.
I ordered another peristaltic pump from APT for the GH. Now I have three reservoirs for macro, micro, and GH. Hopefully, this will work better. Last time, I had a macro solution without the GH, it was fine. Nothing precipitated in there.
With the increased in PAR, I'm having some hair algae. I tried to increase my co2 but I don't think I have it dialed in yet. I have been increasing the co2 for the past week or so. I have seen the reduced in the hair algae but some are still growing. I will try to get it dialed in within the next week or so.
The recovering process is completed. Most/all of the crypts have recovered enough to rescape. I will be doing it this weekend. Here is my purposed layout. What ya'all think?
Finally... all the crypts have recovered enough for me to rescape. When I pulled all the crypts to rescape, I got lots of babies. So I ended up with more crypts then I thought I had. With that, I was running out of space to replant all of them. But I managed to fit them all in.
Here are a few plants of the space. Sorry the water was still cloudy from the rescape.
Wow that is a really neat collection. What water parameters are you keeping in order for all of the plants to be happy and grow? I tried a couple of wendtii...they slowly died off. I'm not sure what I did wrong, I did dose root tabs.
Are you dosing ferts in the water column?
Thanks... The water is Cleveland city water which is pretty hard. This is a high tech setup with high light, pressurized co2, EI dosing, and root tabs. So my plants are like on steroid. They seem to be doing really well with a wide varieties of crypts and plants.
Ok neat its an interesting idea to have
a collection of crypts or any plant for that matter. I cant wait to see what the tank evolves into next.
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Ok neat its an interesting idea to have
a collection of crypts or any plant for that matter. I cant wait to see what the tank evolves into next.
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They get giantnormous and shade out everything in my tank. Extremely beautiful plant though. I want plants/crypts that are more controllable. I'm extremely busy and don't always have time to trim and rescape every weekend.
The flamingo has landed!!! The condition is OK because it has been in the mail for a week and half. Onward to planting... I will have more updates later tonight.
Honestly, it doesn't cost that much compared to what I've in for this tank. From price per unit, it is actually cheaper than most of my crypts in the tank.
No, it was coming from Europe. It got stuck in custom a few days longer than it should've. But I got it though. I have been chasing down this crypt for over 1.5+ years. So I'm happy as it is not a complete mush!
If you do your searches you'll find them pretty easy. Just the question is are you willing to spend the big $$$ to buy them. Most people can't justify spending $100+ on a single plant that you don't know if you can keep alive.
It has been two weeks since my rescaped. I had a big time melt in the tank where I lost quite a few baby crypts. The adult crypts also experienced melting but not as bad. The melting has stopped and crypts are getting new growth.
I might have lost both of my Auriculata sp which I’m extremely disappointed. I hope they will both come back. I have not dug them up to see if the crown is still good. Most likely, I will just wait to see if they do come back.
I changed out the spray bars to nozzles because I didn’t like how the flow was. I was getting algae on the ground and other areas where the spray can’t get to. With the nozzles, it will give me a little more flexibility to control the flow.
I have had the Flamingo for two weeks now. I’m getting mixed result on the survivability. From my observation, the ones that came in good condition are surviving and growing new leaves. While the ones that came in not so good to bad condition has melted. I have a few specimens surviving and growing new leaves in both submerged and emersed form.
Here are some pictures:
FTS:
Center:
Left:
Right:
Submerged Flamingo:
Emersed Flamingo:
Emersed New AS vs Used
New plant I want to try to grow emersed: Elatine Hydropiper
Yes, I ordered some Frank to see if I can grow them. They came in really good condition so the chances are good to convert them. Good luck with yours too!!!
I'm observing the same thing on my end regarding the C. "Flamingo". I can tell you definitively that live Sphagnum isn't something that they seem to like.
Good to know but Sphagnum doesn't really have any nutrients. Did you supplement with ferts?
How are all yours doing?
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