Some of my Planted Ripariums

I have a quick FYI. The Riparium Supply site has been overhauled and I just now successfully moved everything over. I am still adding more content but check out the new style and functionality here...

http://ripariumsupply.com/





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The planting in my Mr. Aqua 11.4G setup is looking good. The foliage has grown in nice and full.

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This was just a quick shot. I will try to get another later with the black background.
 
The planting in my Mr. Aqua 11.4G setup is looking good. The foliage has grown in nice and full.

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This was just a quick shot. I will try to get another later with the black background.
 
I got a quick picture to better show the foliage on the black mangrove plant that I have in the 50-gallon tank.

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Black mangrove is a slow-growing plant. This specimen is two years old but only about 24" tall. Like most kinds of mangroves, black mangrove has leathery foliage.
 
Here is another shot from last night of the setup in my 11.4G tank. The plants have grown in nice.

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I think I really do have a pretty good concept for rescaping my 50-gallon setup.

I am going to remove all of the underwater plants and set up the underwater area with the best hardscape that I can put together. Then I am going to also put some time into getting really good specimens that will make an awesome fish display. I am inclined to use some sort of New World cichlid, but I will need to ponder this some more. I could introduce some kind of cichlid that otherwise wouldn't get a long with plants, but will do well with this setup because the plants will all be the emersed riparium plants.

I am going to remove all of the livebearers that are in there now. I might leave the Synodontis lucipinnis catfish because I do like them a lot.

What do you all think of this idea? Here is a shot from a little while ago. The tank looks about the same now and without any real theme but some nice plants. You can see that there are quite a few swords and crypts underwater.

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I need to think about a new theme for the riparium plants. I am drawn to the idea of grassy plants combined with other stuff, but I want to try something other than Acorus gramineus. A. gramineus is an awesome riparium plant, but I have already used it a few times and it would be good to try to figure out how to grow other grassy selections.

Well that's my idea anyway. Now I need to go hunt for rocks and also think more about fish. Some Gymnogeophagus would be cool. There are lots of other possibilities too of course.
 
I removed all the underwater plants from that 50G and added some new rocks. I'll get pictures when the water clears again.
 
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