Low-Tech 10g Planted Build

[Aquarium1]

Mystery Plant

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Here's a plant or something that has sprung up around my crypt. Anyone have any idea what it is?

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[Crepe]

Whoa looks really cool. Both the tank and the mystery plant. Can you pull some of it up for a better shot?
It looks like it's eleocharis sp. But it also kinda looks like it's branching. The picture is too dark to see.
Anyways, nice progress. My tank looks like a green mess right now as I've gone into the back-to-school collect and grow-out stage.

So, I'm understandably jealous of anything well maintained lol.

 

[Aquarium1]

Haha thank you, means a lot. I'll try to do that later. Someone on APC said it was a crypt root but I'm not so sure. I understand the school part, I pretty much only have time on the weekends to do anything with it.

 

[Smitty]

Wow, looks really great!

 

[Aquarium1]

Thanks .

Here's some pics that, for some reason, didn't get uploaded last night:

Mystery Plant:

I took some of that mystery plant out and put a little in my rubbermaid experiment (mwahahaha lol) and a little in my 2.5g. Here are some pics:

 

[Aquarium1]

Tis a sad day lost two cpds (that I know of) to unknown causes testing the water as I type.

 

[Aquarium1]

Well 0 ammonia and 0 nitrites

 

[mommytron]

sounds like what happened to my cardinals...2 random deaths with no signs of why..

 

[Aquarium1]

Yeah it stinks. Hopefully the others will still be ok.

 

[taylorodw]

Oh no Best of luck with the other CPDs! Fingers crossed.

 

[Aquarium1]

Thanks, just gotta hope for the best.

 

[Aquarium1]

Thinking about buying some CO2 proof tubing, a couple check valves (I'll have to go with plastic, but I'll probably change them out each year or so), and a GH/KH test kit this evening, maybe even a nerite. Guess we'll have to see Think an olive nerite could handle priority mail from CA? They're pretty tough snails aren't they?

 

[Etunes]

Thinking about buying some CO2 proof tubing, a couple check valves (I'll have to go with plastic, but I'll probably change them out each year or so), and a GH/KH test kit this evening, maybe even a nerite. Guess we'll have to see Think an olive nerite could handle priority mail from CA? They're pretty tough snails aren't they?

Are you moving?

 

[Aquarium1]

no, I'm going to buy some lol.

 

[meegosh]

I've ordered shrimp for a friend that came from CA to PA. No DOAs and they are all doing fine to this day. I'd say shrimp are less hardy than snails.

 

[taylorodw]

Thinking about buying some CO2 proof tubing, a couple check valves (I'll have to go with plastic, but I'll probably change them out each year or so), and a GH/KH test kit this evening, maybe even a nerite. Guess we'll have to see Think an olive nerite could handle priority mail from CA? They're pretty tough snails aren't they?

For what it's worth, a baby nerite from MG managed to survive in a plant package with practically no water for 3-ish days in the mail. That was cali to cali though, so I can't vouch for KY. They do seem pretty tough though.

 

[Aquarium1]

Only thing I don't like is that they'll drop them off and I'll be at school, so they'll probably be put in the car while I'm gone but it still might would be ok.

 

[Aquarium1]

So I haven't updated this in forever because of all the school work I've had lately but not much has changed. Fish still good, plants still pretty good, hair algae still a PITA and co2 still a no-go. I won't know whether I'll be able to do co2 or not until March-April.

 

[gmt980]

This is all with 20W of light and some ferts! amazing!

 

[Aquarium1]

Actually no ferts, but thanks! I'll have to put up some updated pics later (even though I'm plagued with the nasty hair algae (blech! lol).