First Planted Tank

[rcherry]

First week of first planted tank

Can I trim this giant hairgrass a bit or will that kill the leaves?

 

[Gillie]

You can trim it if you want, but it looks really good like that. I just ordered some to achieve the same effect.

 

[hippy guy]

I like when plants do this (just started a planted on pre existing 10gal) it provides fish with some light cover, and it just looks neat

 

[Flossie]

Your tank looks fabulous

 

[alex07]

That looks nice

 

[rich311k]

Very nice, I like that a lot.

 

[meegosh]

Looks really nice! I would keep it the way it is but if you don't like it that tall you can trim it back some. Only suggestion would be move the line of smaller rocks to the left of the driftwood in a more random pattern like you did on the right side. Something smaller in front of the DW would look good too!

 

[rcherry]

Thanks a lot guys.
Any ideas on where my red cherry shrimp disappeared? Is it possible the amano shrimp killed them? Or they crawled up into the overflow box? I lost them within 24 hours of adding them.

 

[hippy guy]

Until there's 100, you may never see them haha

 

[rcherry]

Haha I do hope to eventually have about 100 but I don't want to keep buying them if they're being killed/eaten or climbing into the abyss of the overflow box , never to be seen again.

 

[bruinsbro1997]

Wow your tank looks really good! In my opinion I like the look but if you don't like it trimming them won't hurt it! If you trim them it would kinda look cool having floating leaves intersparsed all around the tank.

 

[Ziggs180]

Thanks a lot guys.
Any ideas on where my red cherry shrimp disappeared? Is it possible the amano shrimp killed them? Or they crawled up into the overflow box? I lost them within 24 hours of adding them.

Shrimp are REALLY Good at hiding. many people keep RCS and Amano shrimp together. I usually only see my Amano shrimp once in a while, and at first i'd always get worried, but would see them pop out of nowhere after a while.

 

[Flossie]

I thought some of my shrimp were gone too then one day I saw them all out together they do hide well !

 

[rcherry]

Alright ill keep a lookout for a few days. I'm gradually adding fish, about to add 3 German blue rams to the school of 10 cardinal tetras. Slowly getting there.

 

[Gillie]

Haha I do hope to eventually have about 100 but I don't want to keep buying them if they're being killed/eaten or climbing into the abyss of the overflow box , never to be seen again.

In May I gave a friend of mine 21 healthy adult Cherries that I found while cleaning my canister filter. I assume that they made that trip as shrimplets and grew up in there, very tough little guys.

 

[rcherry]

Actually only added 2 rams, typo up there. Pretty young and still dull from the transfer but can anyone sex these?

 

[rcherry]

I think the first is male second female?

 

[Gillie]

I think the first is male second female?

I would say that you're guess is pretty accurate, the finnage of the fish in the first pic is starting to develope and the fish in the second pic has a nice pink belly. She actually looks like she is close to spawning.

 

[rcherry]

Yeah she has a very pink belly. At what age can they start spawning? The female is about 1.25 inches while the male is about 1.5 inches.

 

[Gillie]

I've had them spawn as small as 1", so if she's ready I wouldn't be surprised.