My First Planted
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Been away for some time 
Tank is still doing great will take some photos soon to show new developments.
Got a mention this month on Pratical Fishkeeping Podcast (Paulo Leal's Tank) very happy about that
http://www.practicalfishkeeping.co.uk/pfk/pages/blog.php?blogid=158
More updates soon
Tank is still doing great will take some photos soon to show new developments. Got a mention this month on Pratical Fishkeeping Podcast (Paulo Leal's Tank) very happy about that
http://www.practicalfishkeeping.co.uk/pfk/pages/blog.php?blogid=158
More updates soon
Finally managed to find my clown loaches a new home They are going on Saturday.
Because the loaches are so large now they kept lifting the riccia of the meshes and rocks, maybe looking for snails, so I had to get rid of the riccia. Now I look forward to start my foreground plantation again
Photos and more updates soon
They are going on Saturday.Because the loaches are so large now they kept lifting the riccia of the meshes and rocks, maybe looking for snails, so I had to get rid of the riccia. Now I look forward to start my foreground plantation again
Photos and more updates soon
Hello everyone,
Over the last couple of weeks I have been moving things around. I had 3 Clown Loaches in the tank for just over 3 years from my time before moving to planted and they were causing havoc with uprooting plants etc... they were rehomed last Saturday and gave me an oportunity to redo somethings and get the tank back on track.
My place was a building site for about 6 months and the tank was just left there feeling very neglected, since I was doing a lot of the work myself after my job, there went the evenings and weekends. The only plants that didn't survive was the Riccia and HC, and the green plant I had on the left hand side which I have no idea what it was called. Also on the left hand side underneath the plants there was a large 15cm diameter by 30cm long plastic tube where the loaches used to hide which I have now also removed. During that time the Anubias grew like mad now I have lots just from one tropic pot, silly me left them out too long while moving things about and some of the leaves dried out
The plants have been trimmed quite a bit so needs a couple of weeks to grow back, last week got a couple of pots of HC which I planted on the left hand side and this week received some glosso and mosses, which I planted yesterday. The glosso is away pearling which I guess its a good sign, I am trying it on my pea size gravel and see how it goes, if it doesn't hold I will change the gravel.
OK enough for today, here are some photos I just took.
Full tank shot:
Created a moss wall on the back of the tank using a wire mesh, just want to see the effect when it grows.
And a photo of my favourite fish
As always comments and critics always welcomed.
Thanks for looking
Over the last couple of weeks I have been moving things around. I had 3 Clown Loaches in the tank for just over 3 years from my time before moving to planted and they were causing havoc with uprooting plants etc... they were rehomed last Saturday and gave me an oportunity to redo somethings and get the tank back on track.
My place was a building site for about 6 months and the tank was just left there feeling very neglected, since I was doing a lot of the work myself after my job, there went the evenings and weekends. The only plants that didn't survive was the Riccia and HC, and the green plant I had on the left hand side which I have no idea what it was called. Also on the left hand side underneath the plants there was a large 15cm diameter by 30cm long plastic tube where the loaches used to hide which I have now also removed. During that time the Anubias grew like mad now I have lots just from one tropic pot, silly me left them out too long while moving things about and some of the leaves dried out
The plants have been trimmed quite a bit so needs a couple of weeks to grow back, last week got a couple of pots of HC which I planted on the left hand side and this week received some glosso and mosses, which I planted yesterday. The glosso is away pearling which I guess its a good sign, I am trying it on my pea size gravel and see how it goes, if it doesn't hold I will change the gravel.
OK enough for today, here are some photos I just took.
Full tank shot:
Created a moss wall on the back of the tank using a wire mesh, just want to see the effect when it grows.
And a photo of my favourite fish
As always comments and critics always welcomed.
Thanks for looking
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Lookin good. Your story reminds me of when I remodeled last year for 6 months.The fish were lucky to get fed
Lookin good. Your story reminds me of when I remodeled last year for 6 months.The fish were lucky to get fed
Thanks
yes very lucky indeed and monthly water changes only, no CO2 no ferts, nothing! most of it survived which was suprising.