Planted 120G Tank

Thanks for the kind replies.

The tank will be going through a hack job in the coming weeks so it won't be presentable for a while. I've avoided doing that in the past but it means a lot more maintenance through out the week so I'm trying to buy myself sometime at least until the "you spend more time with your fish than with us" remarks calm down....LMAO:nutkick:

I kind of see the point when my 2 yr old automatically yells down to the basement, where the other tanks are,"Daddy you down there come upstairs" mean while I'm in the other room...LOL For those who are going to be critical of me at least she knows I'm Daddy!!!!:D
 
Your tank looks great! I keep meaning to ask you what plant club you are a part/where do they meet? I was thinking about joining something in NJ. :)
 
Looks great! Love that chunk of wood.
 
I'll start by saying I'm going back to cultivating plants (definition to promote or improve the growth of a plant, crop, etc. by labor and attention...LMAO) I'm not going to set my heart to any particular style at least not on the 120 for the time being, but I do want to keep it presentable.

So this is what I did to the tank to create more fish space thinned out a lot of plants. The height of the driftwood is import because the shrimp, Amano and RCS, like hanging out up there not sure why maybe the current or more algae. I also like the fish to have arches to swim around especially when being chased...LOL But the big DW on the left isn't sitting right with me.
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I have Dwarf Lobelia cardinalis to provide shelter for shrimp on the ground because I removed many of the bushy plants they were hiding in, but I'm still hoping for Glosso as ground cover. I've also notice many of my plants are some shade of red so I decided not to fight it any more I'm partial to red...LOL Since I'm only cultivating for now I should be good.
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I know this scape may have lost a few purist but I say to them don't fear I'm not a complete lost cause I have a couple of other tanks I'm planning to experiment with.

Although I'm only cultivating I'm still open to ideas, I'm still working on getting some rocks. I'm going to sit back and stare at it for a few days and see what pops out. It took 3 days to clear out this mess having to wait for the cloud of SMS dust to settle in between. Still working out the left side must be I'm right brained cause I always have trouble with the left...LOL Actually I need to wait to I have more growth to spread the layout further I don't have plans for another plant species except for the Glosso sooner or later.

PS Sorry for the lousy pictures these were the best of the worst...LOL
 
looks good!!!
 
Quick update: Well here's what my tank painfully looks like today. My tank took a bit of a dive and in about 3 weeks it became a plant grave yard. The biggest casualties Ludwigia cuba, Rotala macranda, and Rotala sunset amongst the few. I thought the original die back in the plants were from the change in lighting and though it may have been a part of it I should not have ignored it. By the time I noticed stems rotting from both ends it was too late more frequent water changes did nothing to stave off the problem.

My problem wasn't water, or ferts I screwed up the Co2. Don't remember when don't know exactly how but since tinkering with it because of the solenoid problem recently the tank is starting to recover. The macranda is completely flourishing, and what little pedals of cuba and sunset is left is starting to have new growth.

After what was described above with rot of my stem plants. Some still on the verge of perishing from the tank like the Cuba, but I'll have to figure out what will fill some of those gaps/spaces. I plan on thinning some of it out as something else becomes available. The Glosso is slowly starting to spread. Definitely have a case of GSA but only seems to be on the Lobelia cardinalis and Anubias.

Consider this tank far from being scaped. I'm still cultivating now for the simple reason of making it full gain.
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You may get an idea of what the RCS did and sometime still catch doing to the Lobelia cardinalis sp dwarf. For those who don't know they became quit the gardeners mowing it down in the tank. The Limnophila aromatica just never did well in this tank at all and maybe headed to the scrap pill in a few weeks.
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