35G Hex Planted : Journal

[fishycat]

Oh, haha I should've read this first - you already have cories! Congrats! I hope you get the albinos some friends, you could mix standard paleatus with the albinos & they'll school together... your trilineatus look great!

Vertical wood always looks great in a hex tank... vallisneria are also perfect for taller tanks! Aponogeton's are another option (your betta bulbs may actually be a type of aponogeton), as are some of the larger crypts like c. wendtii.

 

[EOD]

I got 2 more albino cories so they have someone to hang out with as well as 12 neon tetra so I'd have some fish that swim near the top. Unfortunately the tetra refuse to swim near the top and I already have 9 missing!! Could my dojo loach have eaten them? He is the biggest fish in there. Would it be safe to move him to the 40 long with the convicts? I also got java moss and tried my hand at winding it around the columns of the roman architecture. I think I'm going to rubberband the rest of it to the rocks since it's not wanting to stay put on them. Pics to come.

 

[fishycat]

Thread's a better option than rubberbands...

Neons cam be weak stock. The first time I bought 8 and had 5 the next day. The second time I hand-picked the ones I wanted (chubbiest) and out of 6 only lost 1.

Neons are midwater swimmers... Killifish & gourami are surface swimmers...

 

[EOD]

Well perhaps I'll get some killifish or gourami. So maybe the neon just died and the mob of cories ate em'. cories look like they would be good of getting rid of a body. Here's the pics and movies of the new stock.



















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[EOD]

Thank you FishyCat. I grabbed some thread and turned what you see above (java moss sloppily thrown on columns) to this:


It's tightly secured and hopefully will grip nicely to the scenery and grow it as if real ivy/moss would. I still have some extra in the back being pinned down by some rocks.

 

[fishycat]

You could tie some to the tops/roof part, it would look nice grown in.

FYI - your cories will injure their barbels on that piece of coral you have in the tank. I'd take it out.

Also, are those black round river rocks loose? You could cut up your moss into 1" pieces, spread it over the top of a rock and wrap with a hair net or several lengths of thread. Cutting stimulates the moss the branch as it grows. In a month or two you'll have a nice "shrub" of moss that you can trim or allow to get bushy.

The best pic I could find of the moss rock when I first made it.


This is about 4 months of growth under moderate lighting (2-13w CFLs) in my 10g.

 

[EOD]

Went and got 3 flame gouramis. So far, the are hanging out on the bottom of the tank...we'll give them time though

 

[EOD]

Check em out.

Looks like he's chopped in half but he was turning around when I took the pic.

There are three of them

 

[FallenAngel]

Awesome

 

[Tobaobo Koomi]

i dig the new gourami as well as the moss...
doin a hell of a job!