My First Planted

[LondonDragon]

Hi everyone,

Just thought I would give you another update before the water change.

For comparisson, here is last week Saturday:

Here is today:

Since the last update the glosso and HC is starting to fill in, its been a bit of a strugle as my corys go digging in the middle of it and end up uprooting it, I have been replating it every day as it floats.
Also added some Blyxa to the middle, due to this have placed the weeping moss mesh at the back on the horizontal, its starting to show signs of growing now, not fast by any means hehe
Over the last week I have only been dosing TPN+ as I ordered a bottle by mistake of my usual TPN, I will keep dosing this until I get my pressurised system which should arrive any day now. Once I get the CO2 system installed I will move to complete dry ferts.

Full tank shot and a couple more photos of plants:

Thanks for looking, as always critics and comments always welcomed

 

[rich311k]

Growing in very nicely. Excellent job.

 

[Temo]

nice

 

[Bansart]

plants are fillin up. good job :thumbsup:

 

[LondonDragon]

Thanks for the positive comments guys

 

[jaysen]

looks great!

 

[Temo]

what kind of co2,lighting(w/g) , substrate,ferts are you using?

 

[Bnoble]

wow, beautiful tank!

 

[LondonDragon]

Thanks everyone

what kind of co2,lighting(w/g) , substrate,ferts are you using?

At the moment I am using DIY CO2 but just took delivery this week of a 2kg pressurised system, so hopefully will get better results with that.
I have 4x24w T5, the substrate is just standard gravel, and I am using the EI fert method.

 

[LondonDragon]

Just another quick update, I have now added the pressurised CO2 system, only been up and running for two days.
I have also moved to complete EI fert dosing with the addition of MgS04. Since the last update added a little piece of bogwood with some branches on the left hand side, and to it added some dwarf riccia.

For comparisson, this is two weeks ago:

This is today (moved the lighting a little back to highlight the moss wall):

This is a close-up of the weeping moss wall:

And this is a close-up of the glosso, did a trim of some older leaves that were developing some algea.

Thats all for now, critics and comments always welcomed