My planted 90 gallon

[matthewburk]

My planted 90 gallon(warning, lots of pics)

This tank is in flux a lot since im pretty new to planted tanks and still figuring stuff out. I mostly like the state I have it in right now, so I wanted to share it

HC has grown in a lot, phasing out high maintenace plants. Still need to get rid of L. Repens am going to go will all aromatica there.

I'm still collecting plants to see what I like and don't like so there's a couple of randomly placed plants around my tank.

Have some stuff that I know that I like but just havent grown enough of yet, like the java fern.

The stargrass and ludwigia are soon not going to be in this tank.

I think this is a big improvement from my old layout and is way less work

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[matthewburk]

more pics

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[matthewburk]

Same tank about a month ago

This is how it looked when it was very high maintenance.

I took these pics to preserve what it was before I completely took out the glosso and some other plants that were just too much work.

My favorite fish, Sky

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My favorite part of the tank, it will look better when I trim some of those plants up.

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A shot of one of my rams, this was supposed to show the height of the glosso, but he likes the camera I guess.

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This was to show how I am slowy moving the glosso out and making room for the HC as it grows in.

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[matthewburk]

more pics from a month ago

otto in the glosso

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My main algae magnet

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Trying to grow in some HC

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[matthewburk]

pics from about 3 months ago

My ghost cat fish, also shows my olive nerite snails, I love the way these things look and the way the eat algae even better.

The best pic I could be of one of my rainbow fish, my camera is not good for close up work, most pics are very blurry

 

[misopeenut]

very nice,i love the glosso carpet

 

[matthewburk]

1 week after setup this is what it looked like

As you can see it has changed considerably over the last 3 or 4 months and I have learned a lot, still have a lot to learn though, but thats part of the fun

 

[matthewburk]

Wow! I can't believe someone replied while I was still posting. Thats why I love this forum

very nice,i love the glosso carpet

Thanks I had to take it out and replace it with HC though, becuase I was not going to pull it up and replant it every couple of months. With the HC I can just trim it.

 

[redstar8]

AMAZING! what fetilizers do you use, that is some remarkable growth! what about for the subsrate? do you mix with gravel or use all florite or eco-complete?

tell me... i must know! give to zim!

 

[matthewburk]

I dose using the EI method with dry ferts from gregwatson. Substrate is sand mixed with eco-complete.