This is what I set up

Stages of the tank

These are previous stages of the tank over the last few years


June 2006


July 2006


November 2006


December 2006


Can't find any picturea after that until April 2007


June 2007

Crazie.Eddie - thanks for teh compliments. I amnew to it like everyone else, I just keep moving things around and around until I find it the way I like. I have always been luckly that plants seem to grow well for me, when I use 180 watts of light or 120 watts of light on the 50gallon. Fertilizers I have grown with both the cheapest Taiwna brand of liquid ferts I could find as well as the EI method of chemicals. I chose EI just for the cost of it as I was paying 20 dollars or more a bottle for liquid chemical and using 3 different bottles, just too expensive.
My suggestion is just start growing some plants you like and then rearrange them to the way you like after they have grown in. Clip and replant them, to fill up the space and if it seems like too much, remove some and change. Just see what you like.


Ikuzo - mini pellia? The moss? I don't believe so. I was under the impression it would be classified as Taiwan Moss. I might be mistaken. I will pull off a piece and take a picture and maybe you can indentify it for me.
glosso will never work for me, as the lighting would be too low. I am running only 120 watts on the 50 gallon tank (90 X 45 X 45 cm) and I would rather keep it low. Three reasons: Heat (as I am in Taiwan and the summers are hot and I don't ude a chiller on the tank, the extra light wattage raises the heat) and two is cost of electricity and three is the extra light would cause a need for extra ferts and a need for extra trimming etc. I already spend too much time on that and my other tanks.
Usually with low foreground plants light hair grass and HC I manage to get algea problems in it as well I thought with the height of the tank and alll the background plants, having too low of a foreground would look strange.