In my ever evolving quest to find my niche in the planted tank world I am moving the tank to Dutch.
Got down to 18 species of plants, plan on staying with this number considering removing one stem and possibly doing some moss walls on the 150. Moss walls seem to be found to fill negative space in alot of Dutch scapes.
The following plants are in use:
Going to be adding a group of Irian Red Rainbows to this group and thinning out the tetras species. Possibly only keeping the Cardinals at this point. Also the Orange Laser Cories will probably be removed as I don't ever see much of them and they sure like to dig up the plants.
I will be removing the T4 undercabinet lighting as I have been having issues with them turning on, one of them has to be constantly messed with. I will be replacing them with a trio of 24" Coralife Freshwater T5NO fixtures. I will more then likely be building a canopy for this tank as well to hide all the lighting above it, will probably wait for the replacement lights to make that decision though.
Quick pic:
Trimmed alot of these to the nubbins to split them out but the rate of regrowth is amazing with this group of plants. I will have S. Purple forsale shortly as I jsut topped it to finish out my grouping.
Craig
Got down to 18 species of plants, plan on staying with this number considering removing one stem and possibly doing some moss walls on the 150. Moss walls seem to be found to fill negative space in alot of Dutch scapes.
The following plants are in use:
- Hemianthus Callicitroides
- Hygro 'Tiger'
- Najas Roraima
- Red Rubin Sword
- Erio Type III
- Ludwigia Pantanal
- Bacopa Carolina
- Erio Type II
- Bacopa Japan
- Staurygone Purple
- Nesesea Crasicaulis
- Blyxa Japonica
- Limnophilia Wavy
- Star Grass
- Hydrothrix Garneri
- Staurygone Bihar
- Elatine Triandra
- Dilipidis Diandra
Going to be adding a group of Irian Red Rainbows to this group and thinning out the tetras species. Possibly only keeping the Cardinals at this point. Also the Orange Laser Cories will probably be removed as I don't ever see much of them and they sure like to dig up the plants.
I will be removing the T4 undercabinet lighting as I have been having issues with them turning on, one of them has to be constantly messed with. I will be replacing them with a trio of 24" Coralife Freshwater T5NO fixtures. I will more then likely be building a canopy for this tank as well to hide all the lighting above it, will probably wait for the replacement lights to make that decision though.
Quick pic:
Trimmed alot of these to the nubbins to split them out but the rate of regrowth is amazing with this group of plants. I will have S. Purple forsale shortly as I jsut topped it to finish out my grouping.
Craig
