Hello!
I am new. I have been lurking about for awhile, but I kind of rather like the vibe of this place, so I thought maybe I would post too.
Last summer I picked up a 6 gallon fluval edge. It is a very pretty tank, but it has some unique... challenges. Like lighting. Everything is under the hood, which does not cover the entire top of the tank, so there is a kind of spotlight effect. Which is cool sometimes, I guess.
(Aug 2010)
Fluval black sand, some java moss, and a scavenged crypt. (Aug 2010)
After my plant order showed up. (Nov 2010). Also replaced the stock lights with some very bright white MR11s, and grabbed some silly looking LED lamps from Ikea. The plants are from TNTaquaria, and all of the plants were super healthy, and either they count bunches very large, or someone was feeling nice and I got a LOT of extra plants.
Crypt willisii, anubias nana petite, and uh.. some other crypt. I wish I had pictures of a few months later, when the back wall turned into a dense complete jungle.
Copper betta plakat. He photographs badly, but under direct light his scales are kind of a gold color.
A series of vigorous rearrangeings last month kind of decimated everything. Crypts don't like being moved, and I forgot they don't like Flourish Excel much either. Oops! New growth is starting to come in now, though.
I had bought some rainbow rock (http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o34/shadeykins/rainbow.jpg) from a LFS, and all of my amano shrimp died. I was assured of it being "aquarium safe", and they have a pretty major selection of rocks available, but after much internet searchings, the only conclusion I can come to is that the red streaks are possibly copper and shrimps do not like that very much. This is what I'm currently left with. I need to do another sweep of the substrate and get the rest of the sad crypt stems...
I am thinking of taking a hammer to the black rocks I had in there before, and making a more reasonably sized hardscape. I really wish I could have a nice carpet of some kind of plant covering the whole substrate, but 6 gallons is so small!
I also think I am the only person in the entire world who cannot get java moss to grow.
Thoughts / suggestions / posts of any kind are welcome.
Thanks and hi!
I am new. I have been lurking about for awhile, but I kind of rather like the vibe of this place, so I thought maybe I would post too.
Last summer I picked up a 6 gallon fluval edge. It is a very pretty tank, but it has some unique... challenges. Like lighting. Everything is under the hood, which does not cover the entire top of the tank, so there is a kind of spotlight effect. Which is cool sometimes, I guess.
(Aug 2010)
Fluval black sand, some java moss, and a scavenged crypt. (Aug 2010)
After my plant order showed up. (Nov 2010). Also replaced the stock lights with some very bright white MR11s, and grabbed some silly looking LED lamps from Ikea. The plants are from TNTaquaria, and all of the plants were super healthy, and either they count bunches very large, or someone was feeling nice and I got a LOT of extra plants.
Crypt willisii, anubias nana petite, and uh.. some other crypt. I wish I had pictures of a few months later, when the back wall turned into a dense complete jungle.
Copper betta plakat. He photographs badly, but under direct light his scales are kind of a gold color.
A series of vigorous rearrangeings last month kind of decimated everything. Crypts don't like being moved, and I forgot they don't like Flourish Excel much either. Oops! New growth is starting to come in now, though.
I had bought some rainbow rock (http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o34/shadeykins/rainbow.jpg) from a LFS, and all of my amano shrimp died. I was assured of it being "aquarium safe", and they have a pretty major selection of rocks available, but after much internet searchings, the only conclusion I can come to is that the red streaks are possibly copper and shrimps do not like that very much. This is what I'm currently left with. I need to do another sweep of the substrate and get the rest of the sad crypt stems...
I am thinking of taking a hammer to the black rocks I had in there before, and making a more reasonably sized hardscape. I really wish I could have a nice carpet of some kind of plant covering the whole substrate, but 6 gallons is so small!
I also think I am the only person in the entire world who cannot get java moss to grow.
Thoughts / suggestions / posts of any kind are welcome.
Thanks and hi!
