My plants arrived!! W/ pics of tank

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nikipike

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After waiting a week for my plants I finally called aquariumplants & got the problem fixed, and here they are!!!

My tank is a complete wreck! The onion plants were a lot taller then I thought they would be. Don't have a lid, heater, & lighting for my 5.5gal, so the plants I ordered for it are having to sit in my 10gal, making it very crowded! The moss ended up being more then I thought it there be & wasnt staying together well so I ended up letting it float rather then tying it to the rock.

Order consisted of:
2 petite nana
1 a. nana
10 onion plants
10 sag. narrow
10 sag. dwarf
java moss
pennywort
water sprite
& anacharis (sp?)

Whole tank w/ the plants that are to stay there:

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My petite nana:

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The pennywort, which has very limited floating room since all I tried my best to keep all the onion plant leaves under the water!

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A. nana which came w/ a bud!!! BTW, this plant came in a pot. Should I leave it or remove it??

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Tank w/ the water sprite, anacharis, & dwarf sag. added in:

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Remove the plant from the pot and remove as much of the rock wool as possible from the roots. Some running water and a fine pair of tweesers makes this task much easier.

I'd also recommend removing (or at least loosening) the plant weights to prevent the stems from rotting at the weights.

Looks like you've received some very healthy plants.
 
Showed the tank to my 10mo old brother. He liked looking at it before the plants were added. When I showed him today, he looked like this 8O LOL!

I've now removed the weights from the water sprite & dwarf sag. Rearranged the tank & planted them. Moved the a. nana over closer to the petites.

Have also started seeing my invanders *shivers*

- Little brown swimmings things that could be baby snails but seem awefully good at free swimmg.
- Duckweed :evil:
- And...I even saw a live bloodworm swimming around in there...ewwww!!! I can't even stand to touch the frozen ones I feed my fish!
 
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