55G planted South American themed planted tank journal

[cobfreak]

I think the moneywort stuff (or not) is mostly green with a lot of brown algae/diatoms. Something like that. It was a much differently colored green at one point in my other tank. the leaves do grow like you're describing.

It's definitely not the same as the Rotala stuff I got in the mail today.

 

[Ratlova30]

Nice tank!

 

[shewolfgeo]

For the background you can go to a fabric store or wal-mart and get black velvet. Make sure you get some that is long enough for your tank. If you want a black background, you may be able to find another color too.

I forgot to paint one of my tanks and that is what I was suggest to use. It looks good too.

 

[cobfreak]

do you have pictures of that anywhere? Sounds like a workable idea.

 

[shewolfgeo]

In my album of my 20g tank. That is the one with the velvet tape to the back.

 

[ChrisK]

Great start looking very good plants should fill in nicely!!

 

[jasonG75]

Gotta do something about all that algae, and clear that pretty tank up

 

[cobfreak]

Gotta do something about all that algae, and clear that pretty tank up

:grinyes:

Working on it. It's continuing to get better. I still think the majority of the brown ugly stuff was new-tank related. More pictures later today I think.

 

[JAY973]

Great start. You have quite a collection but I think it's worth experimenting to find what plants do well under your conditions. Ferts, lighting, Co2 levels, maintenance or lack of maintenance. I move plants around in my tanks and it interesting to me at least how the conditions affect plant grow going from hi-tech to low-tech to heavy or low bio loads with stock sizes.

Your solution for where to put the plants coming in... wait for it.....
Another tank....LMAO

 

[cobfreak]

Great start. You have quite a collection but I think it's worth experimenting to find what plants do well under your conditions. Ferts, lighting, Co2 levels, maintenance or lack of maintenance. I move plants around in my tanks and it interesting to me at least how the conditions affect plant grow going from hi-tech to low-tech to heavy or low bio loads with stock sizes.

Your solution for where to put the plants coming in... wait for it.....
Another tank....LMAO

Not surprisingly, another tank is in the works. I have a 29 gallon sitting here on my desk which I wish I could use right where it's sitting. Unfortunately it'd break the crap out of the desk. Also I use my 20 long as an overflow, putting some of my extra plants in there. I've also got an entirely unplanted 20 high that I might stick the anacharis in after pulling it from this tank.

But yes, I like to play around and see what works and what doesn't. I will probably pull the baby tears out of this tank and use them somewhere else, if possible. I've already moved the blyxa off to the side because I've got other ground cover plants on the way.

Thanks for commenting!