It's been a while since I've posted here, but I figured I'd toss up a time lapse I've been working on since hitting the reset button on my tank. It's an old filter on an old tank with new substrate. The substrate isn't some fancy multilayered setup as it appears. I initially ordered too little so I doubled it after a period of time. I'd gotten tired of battling algae (visible on the first layer of older subtrate at the bottom) so I replanted the tank and cut the photoperiod down to 8 hours. I also stopped dosing NPK separately and simplified down to daily Flourish Excel with bi-weekly Flourish. I've also done a dose of root ferts from aquariumplants.com. Lastly I've added some driftwood to attempt to soften the really hard water around here a bit. At the beginning of the loop, the plants left to right are: a Wal-mart Water Lily bulb (just for kicks); Creeping Charlie; ammania senegalensis; wisteria; Red Melon Sword; Java Fern; rotala indica; plant whose name I've forgotten with thin flowing leaves; Green Temple. Mixed in there are a few stray crypts and a sad older sword of some sort. By the end of the sequence the Green Temple is gone and replaced with wisteria, the tall plant on the right is trimmed and relocated, the errant Java Fern is secured and couple other things have shifted around a bit.
The goal is to see which plants make it and which don't given the new lighting and fert regimen. Then I'll work on arranging things to look good. These files are somewhat large. I'd suggest starting with the slow one since there's a lot going on and it can be overwhelming watching it on the fast version. Sorry about the bubbles on one of the frames, it was taken immediately following a water change.
http://mysite.verizon.net/res7weom/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/plantsslow.gif
http://mysite.verizon.net/res7weom/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/plantsfast.gif
A couple things I've learned/relearned lately: the sad sword has really responded to root ferts...and I can't grow swords for the life of me so that's a good discovery, the sad older crpyts do better tucked right up in the shadows of the taller stem plants.
The goal is to see which plants make it and which don't given the new lighting and fert regimen. Then I'll work on arranging things to look good. These files are somewhat large. I'd suggest starting with the slow one since there's a lot going on and it can be overwhelming watching it on the fast version. Sorry about the bubbles on one of the frames, it was taken immediately following a water change.
http://mysite.verizon.net/res7weom/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/plantsslow.gif
http://mysite.verizon.net/res7weom/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/plantsfast.gif
A couple things I've learned/relearned lately: the sad sword has really responded to root ferts...and I can't grow swords for the life of me so that's a good discovery, the sad older crpyts do better tucked right up in the shadows of the taller stem plants.
