Did I over do it? Anubias Madness! Last resort.

[My Fish Babies.]

Ok this is my first attempt at drift wood and anubias. I am battling very high nitrate readings in my goldfish tank. As you can see my substrate is not very welcoming for plants. I watched several you tube vids as well as read a few posts on how to do this. I used black string cotton to tie each plant on. I believe all are varying sizes of Anubias NaNa. LFS stock.

QUESTIONS?

1. Did I put too many plants on the driftwood?
2. What is the average amount of time it will take for the plants to naturally adhere to the driftwood?
3. Started using flourish. Is there anything else I should be using?

The tank gets indirect sun light all day. I also keep the lights on in the tank about 12 hours a day. The lighting is T8 I believe.

Any help or advice is really and always appreciated.

 

[Bbush]

No plant expert, but it looks good to me!

 

[My Fish Babies.]

No plant expert, but it looks good to me!

Thanks!

My Goldies have been nipping at the roots! This is the main reason I have never done real plants in their tank before. Believe me they eat plenty of a varied diet and plenty of veggies but still nibble! Thank for the compliment! I just hope they live!

 

[Convict2161]

Nah... Looks awesome!!

 

[Coursair]

Looks great. Keep up on your water changes to keep Nitrates within reason. You can add Flourish if you want, but for now you may not need it.

 

[Lainey183]

It looks great! I have anubia in my substrate... I just recently learned it wont grow there.. so my next step is to adhere mine to some driftwood. Let me know how long it take to root!

 

[Luananeko]

Depends on the anubias, but they can be VERY stubborn to take root... I finally had to use fishing line to tie mine down because by the time the cotton thread rotted away they were back to floating through the tank again (it was Anubias Nana Petite, so pretty small and floaty). Once they take root its near impossible to take them off though!

And no, I don't think you overdid it at all. The more plants the better