New World 90gal Low Tech- a Pictoral Journey!! 11/13 Replanting Begins

[lauraleellbp]

I walked into my office this morning and noticed something interesting. There was a patch of sunlight that is coming through my blinds and lands EXACTLY outlining the patch of E. tenellus in my tank that is growing and filling in very quickly. I may try an experiment and start leaving my blinds open during the day.

I finally got around to planting the additional Hydrocoytle and E. 'vesuvius'; I'll try and get some pics tomorrow after the leaves have adjusted from having floated so long in the tank.

[PasD]

I really like how your tank has evolved over the past few months. What type of hydrocotyle do you have?

[lauraleellbp]

It's Hydrocoytle leucocephala. Really easy to grow.

[lauraleellbp]

Updated pictures:

Can you tell where the sunlight falls on the E. tenellus?









My poor dilapidated kleiner bar



Still have a little swordlet growing, though!



My "dwarf" E. africanus



I think I may finally throw in the towel on Stargrass. I think it actually would do OK but my Cories really like this spot in my tank, so they keep breaking the stems. Since I've got almost no nutrients in the water column, they don't do so well when they get separated from the root systems this way





The Bacopa stems are a little hardier. The Cories are hiding back in the Bacopa, today...



There are 2 Gold nugget plecos and a GBR pretty well hidden in this pic



One fat, lazy C. scwartzi

[CL]

The best it's looked yet!

[brt_p]

is it really Kleiner Bar?..i thought it would be red?..

[fishboy87]

If your kleiner bar is dying, I would consider removing the mother plant and planting one of the baby plants in it's place. Did you already remove the pleco. If so, the sword's leaves look like they are still shooting out. Great tank and ditto on what clwatkins10 said!

[lauraleellbp]

The new leaves do come in bright red.

The sword is still putting out new leaves and plantlets, so it's not dying, the leaves just keep getting eaten by one of the plecos. I haven't done anything about the pleco yet, I haven't quite decided for sure what I'm going to do with it...

[jaidexl]

Try adding some giant hygro, you still have a tore up plant in the tank but the other one has more of a fighting chance, and hygro is easy to pull out on picture day. Mine loved hygro, just depends if they're sick of sword snacks, I guess.

[lauraleellbp]

Unfortunately, Hygros don't fit into my "theme." I'm going to end up removing the L018, I'm sure... just a matter of do I want to replace him, and if so, what with?

You haven't seen any Queen Arabesques in town anywhere, have you?

[lauraleellbp]

I finally managed to get an accurate count of the C. schwartzi. I'm down to 6, apparently. Out of all this time, I've only ever seen one body. I strongly suspect that I've lost them to jumping and they've been snacks for the household Four Furry Furies.

I went back and looked at some old pics of the GNPs, and I believe they've both grown several inches since I've had them! The albino LF BN that came with the GNPs (and is housed in my 46gal) has probably quadrupled in size; it's just about a full-grown adult now.

I may add a different species of Cories to this tank at some point to bring the numbers back up to 12. I saw some C. concolor and some laser striped Cories at an LFS in town and they're pretty fantastic looking. We'll see.

[unirdna]

Wrapping driftwood in pennywort is something I have not seen anyone else do. It gives the impression of an old, dead tree being taken over by vines. Very creative! -something Oliver Knott would do.

[lauraleellbp]

Thanks, Ted! That's really high praise, Oliver Knott is one of my favs!

[rpayer]

Looks great!

[Karackle]

Looking great! Can definitely tell where the sun is shining on that carpet!

Your poor kleiner bar! Glad to hear it's hanging on and still putting out new leaves and plantlets!