Did a little trimming last night

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My light isnt strong enough for reds.

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And my blyxa isnt doing much since getting them.

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Nice tank! What are the parameters?(gh, kh, ph?)

 

My 75 gal. I use minimal seachem ferts.
Picts taken with an old samsung S2 so sorry bout the quality.

 

Finally posting this tank after a few months grow out... my "other" 28g bowfront... and my 10g DSM(3rd DSM and I ACTUALLY flooded it this time!!)

 

Relatively new to the forum, been lurking 6 months or so. The tank was originally very lightly planted with a couple of convicts in it. I really wanted more plants and more fish in a 55g so i recently rehomed those convicts and went with my gut.

55g long tank
220c marineland cannister filter
sub is half eco complete and half red flouride
lights are one 67k ho and one 10k ho, getting replaced soon due to age.

i dose flourish probly a capful a week. no root tabs. water change maybe 15 gallons once a week.

plants: aubias nana, cabomba, anubias ??? one in the middle its taller, and something in the right foreground that i forgot the name of.

i really want to add more plants. moss for the driftwood etc. any suggestions?

woohoo!

 

Updated my old 2.5gallon.

 

My first crack at planted. Been running about a month now.
20 long
Sat. Freshwater LED (probably should've got the plus but oh well)
Eco complete sub
Flourish, excel doses

Plants:
Bronze wendtii
Red wendtii
Banana plant
Java fern (don't really like the small guys)
Java moss on driftwood, rocks and a mat growing
Gold anubias
Corkscrew val
Crypt spiralis
Moneywort
Dwarf sag
Blyxa
Floating a penny wort stem
And some onion whose name I forgot

Fish:
5 zebra danios (Jerry, George, Elaine, Kramer, Newman)
6 amanos ( Chowder, Mung, Truffles, Schnitzel, Endive, Pananini)
Probably going to add some otos, panda cories and maybe some neon tetras.

 

Awesome tanks guys! heres mine. first planted tank for me

55g
cascade 1500 canister filter
2x 54 watt T5 HO 6500k bulbs
8 hour photoperiod with 2 hour siesta in between
flourite substrate
excel/flourish

I have a lot to learn but so far, i learned to over filter and plant heavily!, not too much light.
May not be low tech for long, im getting the urge for pressurized co2

 

Nice setup. What plants are those?

 

The 1 in front looks like Hygrophila corymbosa.

 

Thanks. I've actually been checking out lobelia cardinalis but did not know if it was suitable for low-tech. Would you say this plant requires a lot of experience to grow in low tech? Or would it be fairly easy for a beginner to grow it as well?

 

It's pretty easy to grow, but does better with medium light.

 

My first tank (well besides the simple goldfish won at the fair tank haha), that I've been working on for roughly 2 months. Still a major work in progress. Fell in love with apistogramma cacatuoides and built this tank to breed them.

(Planted+ 24/7, osmocote+, EI dosing & Excel)

Plant list:
anubias minima
anubias barteri
St. Elmo's hybrid swords
Aponogeton capuronii
dwarf hairgrass
"blue velvet" buce
"king tatena" buce
water wisteria
taiwan moss

Also ordered some anubias nana for some foreground cover around the stump.

 

I cheated and color-corrected the tea color from the water. I also corrected the persepctive, but I really like how it turned out, so here it is!

 

I cheated and color-corrected the tea color from the water. I also corrected the persepctive, but I really like how it turned out, so here it is!

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hey there! Nice to see you pop over on this forum too ^^

 

29G low tech: EcoComplete, Beamswork 6 x 0.5 Watt LEDs, AC30 HOB, no CO2, occasional root tabs

Flora
Cryptocoryne balansae, C. lutea, C. wendtii, 2-3 other crypts, 2 Anubias, M. pteropus Narrow, Bolbitas, Aponogeton ulvaceus, Hygrophila corymbosa angustifolia

Fauna
Rummy Nose Tetra, Lambchop Rasbora, Pseudomugil Gertrudae, New Guinea Blue Eyes, Amano shrimp, MTS

 

6g bowfront


7g cube (please pardon the java fern... plantlets growing on all the old leaves make them look like [censor].. going to be planting the babies in a few weeks/months once they're grown up and pop off.)



10g


12g long

 

What plants are in your 7g. I love it.

 

My Ultra Low Tech Tanks

I have four 10g tanks with no filters, substrate, or air. The only thing that might be considered 'high tech', is 12.5 watts per gallon. I use liquid fertilizers and keep labyrinth fish and air breathers like corys and otos.

 

I have four 10g tanks with no filters, substrate, or air. The only thing that might be considered 'high tech', is 12.5 watts per gallon. I use liquid fertilizers and keep labyrinth fish and air breathers like corys and otos.

12.5 watts per gallon? I thought 3-4 wpg was high light.

Bump:

10g

Lovely setup! What plants are in the fore/mid-ground?

 

Yes, beautiful! What are the clover-like plants left foreground?

 

I feel this one is coming along, but not there yet. Need to make a decision on the
green looking Rotala, but it gets more red every time it gets a new shoot on it.
Supposed to be Magenta says the supplier to the LFS. But also supposed to be from the same batch as the red Rotala you see next to it. Obviously a discrepancy exist.
Upper right is Fissidens F. on the wall. The Marcelia Minuto was recently planted.
The W. Java fern is young from very small plants so hasn't grown much.
And that is native/collected DHG on the left. And a couple of Crypt Petchii/w a new
plant sprouting in between them.
10g/w one dose of EI type ferts weekly but two of the micros. 2x Excel and about
45-50 PAR on for about 7.5 hrs.

Update: Made the decision.

 

AquaAurora, which Java Fern is your favorite? I'm currently deciding between Windelov and Narrow Leaf.


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AquaAurora, which Java Fern is your favorite? I'm currently deciding between Windelov and Narrow Leaf.

Windelov is my favorite. Narrow leaf tends to get hidden amidst other plants.

 

Not the greatest looking but here is my

20g - Aqua Clear 50 - Fugeray - Eco complete - Eheim heater

 

 

I like this! Simple but effective. How's the maintenance?

 

Here is the 20L in the kids playroom. No CO2, no ferts ( except osmocote root tabs when I started it, months ago). Eco complete. 1 T8 on for 4,off for 4,back on for 4. Water change/filter cleaning whenever I remember.

Fish-
A few tetras
A few guppies
2 nerite snails
1 assassin snail
? malaysian trumpet snails
Plants-
Lots and of crypt wendtii
Big bush of needle leaf Java fern
Wad of moss (fissiden?)

 

My 16 after a thorough replanting of everything. Thoughts?

 

I want to redo the substrate but don't want to start all over again. Can't get the foreground to spread.