20g Planted Photojournal

[treiner5]

Going to update this every week or whenever I get around to it so I, as well as other people, can see a tank growing.

What is currently in there fish wise:
2 Bolivian Rams
2 Von Rio Tetras
3 Black Neon Tetras
3 Guppies
1 Zebra Loach

Plant Wise:
4 Mini Stalks of Water Wisteria
Bunch of little tiny Dwarf Sagittaria
1 Amazon Sword (Going to get rid of it once it gets enormous)
1 Bronze Wendtii

Other options:
In another tank I have some Java Fern and a Lutea plant I could add someplace pending recommendations.

Tank Setup:
Filter: Rena XP1
Heater: Rena 100W
CO2: Dual 2-Liter DIY
Liquid Fertilizer: Flourish Excel, Flourish Micros
Dry Fertilizer: Potassium Nitrate, Monopotassium Phosphate
Lighting: 65W; 6500k; 10 hours/day

Disclaimer: My camera is old for a digital one so the pictures suck. The actual colouring of the tank isn't nearly as green; it's bright, but not that bright. Also as of February 14th I just got my dry ferts, before this I had been using excel to kill a really bad hair algae problem. I also have a slight BGA problem but the KNO3 should get rid of that. Previous to adding dry ferts I had no nitrate in my tank so I'm hoping to see incredible growth compared to the rather slow I've been having.

Pictures:
February 14th, 2007
Front:

Side:

Left Wisteria/Sagittaria Area:

The Wendtii that I'm not sure whether it's actually a Bronze Wendtii or Red Rubin Sword:

 

[Rbishop]

A great start!

 

[jgavlock]

Good start - that is a wendtii

 

[Mgamer20o0]

very good start. keep us updated.

 

[the Amazonian]

Nice...

 

[jm1212]

your bolivian looks great

 

[treiner5]

your bolivian looks great

Thanks, that's the dominant one and is a little larger than the other. I feed them flakes, krill, bottom feeder stuff, and hikari cichlid pellets in a rotation.

 

[KingOfTheDeep]

nice tank, you should post monthy updates

 

[treiner5]

UPDATE: February 16th; 2 Days into journal

It's only two days after the first but I have a bad case of needing to change stuff around. I shut down another tank since I have too many and put the plants from that into this as well as a decoration. Also added a single neolamprologus multifasciatus that was in the tank. Looking on some opinions on the mangrove decoration. Anyways here are some pictures.

Front:
You can see I added two java plants around the base of the amazon sword to hopefully grow low and cover the filter and heater bottom. I also added lutea on the other side of the rocks in front of the wendtii to grow over that side of the entrance of the cave/underpass but I don't know if I like that position so I'm up for recommendations.

Side:
You can see the shells I added from the other tank for my multi

Left:
You can see here what I mainly did, I added the decoration, put the Dwarf Sagittaria in front and underneath the mangrove and put the wisteria around hte rest of it.

Right:
Better view of the right side oasis and a bolivian.

 

[tictak_07]

hi
your tank is really coming along great,
love the ram,they always look alert.