My new and improved tank-more suggestions please! Pictures attached

Well first you should take off the wool off the bottom of the ferns.
2nd make sure not to bury the rhizome.

Now as far as you trying to have the tank heavily planted just from those 4 ferns.. thats not really going to happen. One would have to wait a few years for them to be all over the tank.. Ferns are slow growers and dont really depend on co2. So your bubbling wont hinder its growth at all.
 
Surface agitation is only an issue if you're injecting CO2. What it does is move CO2 levels to the equilibrium level. If you're injecting, you're maintaining CO2 above equilibrium so don't want it to move down to the equilibrium level. If you're not, then plants will be reducing CO2 below equilibrium so anything that moves levels back up to equilibrium is a good thing.
 
1) Are my 4 major java fern placed in the right spot? I have 2 that is close to that oxygen pump in the corner, so will oxygen inhibit its growth?
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no wrong place to put them. no o2 wont bother them
2) Is the oxygen pump effective at all? Its in the corner, so I don't know about its effiency in oxygenating the tank. Thanks!
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not really the hob adds plenty of o2 to the water.
 
Bk828 said:
2nd make sure not to bury the rhizome.
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How do you plant them if you cant bury the bulb? I purchased some anubias congensis a few weeks back and I buried all the roots including what I assume was a rhizome - I guess I should pull it up and reposition it, but how?
 
I don't know if anyone else noticed but this is extremely bad stocking for a 10gallon.
 
It should pull up easily especially if it has not been that long. If it remains buried for any length of time it will begin to rot and the plant will die. I would pull up on the plant and make sure some of the rhizome is exposed so the plant has a chance to survive. As far as the ferns and the Africans, I believe it is possible to have them in the same tank since the fern will taste nasty to them so they should leave it alone.

Marinemom
 
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