[RobMc]

4 weeks of growth on my 8g nano

The wisteria has been chopped down twice now and propagated to fill in the back - thinking of removing it soon and replacing with some red plant.
Water onion on the right also gets trimmed weekly - might have to go as well.

Just added an additional light (for 51W) and injected CO2 - curious to see how week 5 fares.

 

[GMYukonon24s]

Nice growth!

 

[acitydweller]

nice transition!

 

[Edub]

what's that grassy stuff up front? Micro sword?

tank looks really good.

 

[RobMc]

It is microsword! It is showing the least vibrancy - which will hopefully be cleared up by the higher wattage lights and addition of pressurized CO2.

Full specs:

8 gal cube: Fluval Flora
Substrate: Fluval Stratum / Petco Sand
Hardscape: Found driftwood / rocks
Filtration: modified Magnum 350 canister - recirculation gate / valved
Other Tek: 2x 13W 6500K CFL (~3 W/G), (11/15 added 1x 25W CFL and solenoid controlled CO2 injection)

Flora: Anubias (removed) / Green Crypt / Micro Sword / Windelov Fern / Wisteria / random betta bulb / fissidens fontanus

Fauna: Betta Splendens, 5x(?) Red Cherry Shrimp, 1 Apple Snail, 1 Nerite Snail, 10x Corydoras Pygmaeus, 1 Amano Shrimp, 1 Otoclinus

Light Schedule: 8 hours on 16 off, CO2 8:16 shifted 1 hour earlier than the lights

Ferts: Dosing Flourish 2x weekly as of week 3, no root tabs or cal-mag

Water Parameters:
0 AM 0 Nitrites 5-10 Nitrates
PH 7.2
Relatively Soft

 

[Jonnywhoop]

^ which plant is on the left of the microsword? awesome looking tank!

 

[ramen lover]

wow nice growth!

 

[RobMc]

^ which plant is on the left of the microsword? awesome looking tank!

Thanks my friend, that'd be a Cryptocoryne Wendtii - grows like a weed
So far I've removed 4 leaves which were getting aged.

 

[RobMc]

While We're on the subject, here's the current growth

original for comparison

4.5 days after the last pic in the series

Think the crypt needs a haircut