help make me feel better

[corykid]

Hey guys just got my plants ....and the tank looks bad lol i know i worry to much but i really hope it works out is my tank supposed to look bad? like i got a lot of the stuff out that had come loose but i worry to much i guess. Did anyone elses tanks look bad for the first while?

I am usin florish excel and the florish gravel tabs

Thanks

[Mgamer20o0]

if we had something we could see then i could help you. some more info. something.

[corykid]

if we had something we could see then i could help you. some more info. something.

basically i am just sayin that the tank don't look so good cause it is empty pretty much cause the plants r so small, and its all good now it was just at first the water got kindda dark and there was ALOT of crap movin around the tank but it has all settled down

another question i have is was i supposed to take the metal and foam off from around the roots? (by "roots" i meen bottoms cause there was no roots) when i did it was hard to get the plants to stay in

O ya and i need help on my plants when i got there JAVA FERN was 15 bucks! for just the one java fern and NONE of the other plants i wanted were there! so the guy told me to get a ROTALA, NAMOPHYLI SIAMENSIS, and one plant from a asst. for sale I HAVE NO idea what this plant is.

P.S. I WILL BE MAKIN ANOTHER POST WIT THESE QUESTIONS!

[Mgamer20o0]

better been some big java fern. plants take time to grow.

[sarcare]

Low light plants take longer to grow too--so you might want to arrange your tank in a way you like with the smaller plants. Rotala generally requires higher light, as do most red plants. Not all plants take a long time to grow in--my tank has grown in tons in the weeks since I planted it!

[misopeenut]

O ya and i need help on my plants when i got there JAVA FERN was 15 bucks! for just the one java fern and NONE of the other plants i wanted were there! so the guy told me to get a ROTALA, NAMOPHYLI SIAMENSIS, and one plant from a asst. for sale I HAVE NO idea what this plant is.

P.S. I WILL BE MAKIN ANOTHER POST WIT THESE QUESTIONS!

rotalas are pretty nice plants if you can keep them. they can give you a forest look. one of my favorite plants and it looks beautiful when pearling :) :)

that siamensis, i belive thats large hygrophila. it will grow big, when planting you must spread them out so when they grow, they wont be convering each other.

what i did with large hygro was i planted with short hairgrass and some hygros to give the big tree appearance, it came out alright.

[Hound]

Heck for $15 I'd expect that java fern to be attached to driftwood. One thing I've found is that plants can be hard to come by in LFSs. It may take some time for your aquarium to grow in and until then you really won't know for certain what you have going. Your going to find that some plants just don't seem to like your aquarium while others that you weren't sure about take off.

[corykid]

Ya i see what ya meen the siamensis does not loook to be doin so good. don't know about the Rotala yet it looks good so far (WAS THE HARDEST THING TO GET TO STAY DOWN!!) and the plant that i got for really cheap in the for sale tank is doin great! it is grownin roots everywhere!

[misopeenut]

siamensis was probably grown out of water thats why, are the leaves changing colors??
wait till it adapts to your water itll take over your tank, grows superr fast