Keith's New Tank

keith00 said:

Thanks for the reply Monica - I am glad you like it.

Being so tightly packed with plants from front to back it is impossible to know how many babies there are. I can only see them when they walk among the ferns but I have to admit that I have only ever counted 10 on view at any one time which is surprising. I suspect a proportion of them do get eaten but now there always seems to be a new brood every few days.

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Yes, that is often what one gets when you employ the "survival of the fittest" method of rearing. I often raise fish this way, a bit cruel, but it ensures that the survivors are doing quite well and are very strong. Tetras will just about eat anything, but I'm sure they love the live baby shrimp.

The tank is lovely. I'm a huge fan of moss and Crypts a you have plenty of those plants.

llj

Thanks llj,

Yes I love Crypts and mosss and also Anubias. This was the first tank I set up and when I rescaped the other one I was able to trim enough moss to cover a couple of slates in an effort to make a green carpet. Some of the Crypts have been transferred from the other tank and as the Windelovs make babies I am supergluing them to small pieces of slate to make a background for the big tank.

This is the big tank



and this is the side where I am growing the carpet of moss and the background of Windelov which are too small to see at the moments.

How much did it cost you overall for all the plants? (For the one I commented on earlier)

Hi Monica,

For the original planting of 200 it cost £60 as one of my LFS sell at £1.50 for a bunch of five stems.