My first planted tank

[rae]

I thought I'd share my tank with everyone, it's not just my first planted tank - it's my first tank. It's lowtech, 6 months old. The whole plant thing is very difficult if you're new to it, starting with the whole latin name thing, which I can never remember, nor pronounce. I realised these plants don't have common names because they're not, umm, common. I'm not trying to do a fancy aquascape, I'm just trying to figure out which plants I like and which I'm able to grow. Can anyone recommend any plants, or any tricks a newbie like me might be missing?



This is using the stem plants from the LFS, before I knew anything about plants. I eventually replaced all of these.

 

[rae]

Here's the tank today, bit crowded, as I've been trying out allsorts of plants and I can't bear to bin a healthy plant. I'll have to start a new tank...

 

[Nothing]

It looks good! I really like that driftwood I've been looking for a piece like it but never found one I'm pretty new to the planted thing too and there's probably a ton I'm not doing exactly right but everything's growing really well. All I do is dose Flourish Excel every morning, lights on for 10 hours, and then trimming away dying leaves if they show up.

 

[rae]

I've found the LFS take the best bits of driftwood and put them in their own tanks. I'm just cheeky and get them to fish them out for me!

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