Low-Tech 10g Planted Build

[Aquarium1]

I'm so excited!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I ordered all of the plants I needed excluding the moss and anubias nana petite.

1 C. Parva
1 Marselia Quad
1 Java Fern Wendilov
2 C. Wendtii (Red, Green) (I'll sell them once they get too big for the tank)
2 Rotala Indica
3 Ludwigia Repens

 

[Crepe]

Grats. Planting IMO is the funnest part.

 

[Aquarium1]

Thanks. I know, I can't wait Also did a small pwc today to get rid of a portion of the rotting food. I used mostly dechlored tap but I realized I didn't make enough and I didn't wanna go to the trouble of dechloring a small amount of tap so I used RO.

 

[mommytron]

i love the driftwood!!! it looks so good, i can't wait to see it planted. did you try to make the front of the river wider and the back narrower? that was a really cool suggestion, i wouldn't have thought of that.

 

[Aquarium1]

Thanks! Well I kinda did, but I didn't do it very good because it's so hard to move around the rocks because they get scattered or covered in sand but I did it good enough for me lol.

 

[mommytron]

hehehe that's all that matters!

 

[Aquarium1]

Yep lol. I'll try to add pics tonight.

 

[Aquarium1]

If all goes well with this tank... I have a 2.5g thats just sitting in there with a bunch of snails and dirt lol. I have seen so many amazing nano planted tanks, I would just need to buy a light. A desk lamp with a 20 or so watt spiral CFL bulb should do the trick, don't ya think? I just have to clean off the desk its on haha. Oh yeah, its acrylic, and a bow front, so I'm also gonna have to find a way to get off the algae without scratching. And, I wanna remove the purple rim lol.

 

[Aquarium1]

Yayyyyyy!!!!!!! My order finally shipped today . I think they may ship most of their orders on Mondays. I'll try to keep that in mind next time.

 

[mommytron]

yay! congrats! can't wait to see plants in your tank

 

[Aquarium1]

Me either. Hopefully it will arrive by/before Thursday.

 

[krap101]

2-3 more days and you'll be sitting at home with a planted tank!

 

[Aquarium1]

Unintentional Overnight Priorities FTW. Acclimating .

 

[Aquarium1]

Delivery!

C. Parva

Marselea Quad

Ludwigia Repens

C. Wendtii 'Green'

C. Wendtii 'Red'

To be continued....

 

[Aquarium1]

Rotala rotundifolia

List of plants (I didn't get the Java Fern, but I already sent them an email about it)

All

Acclimating

 

[Aquarium1]

Done

 

[logansmomma1228]

WOW! I love it! Come do my tank lol . That is looking really really great AQ

PS Cant wait for the tree to be done!

 

[JustOneMore20]

Very nice! Those plants look really good in there. I'll have to order from that place now that I can see they send healthy plants.

 

[Aquarium1]

Thanks guys, so much . I think the rotala came with some hair algae tho :\ but hopefully it will go away. Btw Kristin, did you ever get that Weeping moss.

 

[logansmomma1228]

Hey, did you order that from Sweet Aquatics? Or mg or sm? Those plants are very healthy looking, +1 to kristin lol