Planted 120G Tank
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Thank you Lab, it has been an important resource for me as well, to be able to go back and see what I've tried. I'm so glad I did it and the feed back has been great getting input from other members kinda leads you in directions you may have not considered for yourself.
It's been fun and a lot of work.
Well my attempts at a nice foreground continue to elude me. It turns out for me the Ludwigia repens after multiple trims starts to rot from the bottom of stem up and to be honest it required more maintanence as a foreground plant than I was willing to invest. So although I've been advised against Blyxa on multiple occasions I figure I should try it for myself and hope for better results.
The 2nd plant I had problems with was the Pogostemon stellatus sp. narrow leaf. The regular prunning and replanting of the top halves stressed the plant to the point where it wasn't very nice during the adjustment. Although I'm still attempting to keep the plant I may give in sooner or later.
Algae well what can I say it's here to stay BBA, GBA and green spot to name a few. The good news is it hasn't taken over the whole tank but it is worst on a few species of plants like the Lobelia cardinalis is mostly covered in green spot, while the Alternanthera reineckii seems to attrack both green spot and bba.
Anyway here it is after the weekend trim and moving a few plants:
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The 2nd plant I had problems with was the Pogostemon stellatus sp. narrow leaf. The regular prunning and replanting of the top halves stressed the plant to the point where it wasn't very nice during the adjustment. Although I'm still attempting to keep the plant I may give in sooner or later.
Algae well what can I say it's here to stay BBA, GBA and green spot to name a few. The good news is it hasn't taken over the whole tank but it is worst on a few species of plants like the Lobelia cardinalis is mostly covered in green spot, while the Alternanthera reineckii seems to attrack both green spot and bba.
Anyway here it is after the weekend trim and moving a few plants:
FTS
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Middle
Right
Thanks for the updated pics. Nice looking tank, good luck with finding the foreground that works for you. Really awesome looking livestock. Given the tank size and mature plants maybe some smaller anubias would work for you along the front. Good luck
Thanks Roscoe70; I tried the nana petite in here a couple of time but I think because of the high lights its susceptible to algae and didn't grow well compare to the other plants. I have some regular nana I should've tried just to watch it get massive. I hope to get my 90G tank running so I can rotate species of plants depending on the look I'm going for.
jay with a 120 and it's depth 90% of your traditional foreground plants will have a hard time to thrive. two plants id recomend would be micro sword, and one plant not traditional used as a fore ground is pellia. with prunning it can make a fantastic carpet. prune the microsword just like a lawn about an 1'' or 2'' an other plant wich might do well is downoi/ little star. you can see a little of all three types in the threads i have first group of pics show downoi . page 11 though not in the foeground shows the pelia around tree stump making a low growing carpet . there are two types one grows like a ball the other is less formed that is the type i'd use. good luck you found the nitch on growing healthy plant looks very nice. if you haven't alreay look at amanos theory of three in layouts
http://www.aquariacentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=110988
http://www.aquariacentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=178509
http://www.aquariacentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=110988
http://www.aquariacentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=178509
I have spent the past 45 minutes reading this entire thread through-and-through. I am truly amazed at your hard work and dedication to a beautiful tank with beautiful fish. The act for co-existing so many fish and plants together and keeping this show-tank at award winning quality is a feat in it's own. When you first started the thread with the pictures among pictures of your aqua-scape, it kept me interested the whole time. I want to congratulate you on this amazing tank. After the major crash of the tank and your tank hit "rock bottom", I still must tell you, that the tank look 100% better then any one of my tanks on a good day. And by the next month, you would have the tank up and running, the plants flourishing and beautifully positioned so that anyone, whether or not they like fish or plants, would be interested. Your dedication to your plants from being more so concerned of Cultivating the plants, to taking your jewels of green and red and planting them into many eye-catching combination's is truly inspiring for any young aqua-fan, including myself. This tank could be framed and placed in a museum, for all to see and get the ratings of Mona Lisa. I am dead serious. Seeing this tank progress is possibly one of the best experiences I have had on AquariaCentral and you surely made my day a better one. These places like AC are perfect for people to learn, about any fish or invertebrate or plant. And there are still those people that are there, lurking around the forum until they find a thread like this and become inspired to strive for a better aquarium.
Thank You so much for you hard work on this tank and please, keep the updates coming.
Trevor
Thank You so much for you hard work on this tank and please, keep the updates coming.
Trevor
:jaw: WoW! Thank You for the compliment glad you enjoyed it.
My hope was to do for others what some of the tank journals had done for me. I spent years and a lot of $$$ unfortunately being mislead by LFS for a buck. Forums like this and local club put me on the right track and the rest is basically how much effort I dedicate to making it work. (Still cost me $$$$...LOL)
