Planted 40g Aquarium Journal

NearMeBettas said:

That is a really good idea to run the stems through the bottle lid. I will have to try that next time I am rooting something.

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Yah! I used a drill and just made a large hole on the top... Did the same to the back of the aquarium lid (the plastic piece you can cut anyway)

NearMeBettas said:

I also found the synonyms silly, inept, airhead, birdbrain, blithering, idiot, blockhead, dullard, dummy, dunce, head muppet, mutt, idiom, nimrod, simpleton, and stupid.

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Interesting! Thanks lol

Rocky998 said:

Yah! I used a drill and just made a large hole on the top... Did the same to the back of the aquarium lid (the plastic piece you can cut anyway)

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Ya, that is a super good idea!

Rocky998 said:

Interesting! Thanks lol

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NP, I'm here to inform.

Day after a water change...

Still looking good!!

i say it looks amazing. i just love that huge driftwood

Mr_Harrys said:

i say it looks amazing. i just love that huge driftwood

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Thanks!!
Yah, I love that piece of driftwood! It was such a rare find at my lps lol

Been a while since I've updated...

There has been some cool discoveries in the tank today!
My Ludwiga has started growing more little baby ones and spreading across the sand bed (I bet there have been others earlier, but this is the first baby one I've noticed coming up from the sand).
And really excited because there were peacock gudgeon fry swimming around this morning!
I've only seen two, so I'm suspecting that they are early hatchers lol.
I've been looking at all my adult gudgeons like: "Hmm... Whose da daddy? Are youda daddy? Whose da momma? Youda momma?"

I don't expect any to survive l, but I will TRY to feed them the best I can lol

You'll have to post us a photo

CaptainBarnicles said:

You'll have to post us a photo

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I can show a pic of the baby ludwigia sometime, but not the fry... They are way too small right now... I will TRY to get pictures of one of them but they are tiny

CaptainBarnicles said:

You'll have to post us a photo

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Alright I was able to get both photos! Sorry for taking so long lol

@Byron @WhistlingBadger @GaryE
Sorry for the tags, but I'm wondering what is going on with my amazon swords. Some of the leaves are turning yellow, and I thought the root tabs were wearing off from about 3-4 months back, so I added some more, but they are continuing to melt...
I'm very confused

Rocky998 said:

@Byron @WhistlingBadger @GaryE
Sorry for the tags, but I'm wondering what is going on with my amazon swords. Some of the leaves are turning yellow, and I thought the root tabs were wearing off from about 3-4 months back, so I added some more, but they are continuing to melt...
I'm very confused

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How long ago did you add the tabs? It can take a week or two for them to start looking healthy again. Swords don't seem to heal damaged leaves; they just grow new ones. That takes a while.

Rocky998 said:

Been a while since I've updated...

There has been some cool discoveries in the tank today!
My Ludwiga has started growing more little baby ones and spreading across the sand bed (I bet there have been others earlier, but this is the first baby one I've noticed coming up from the sand).
And really excited because there were peacock gudgeon fry swimming around this morning!
I've only seen two, so I'm suspecting that they are early hatchers lol.
I've been looking at all my adult gudgeons like: "Hmm... Whose da daddy? Are youda daddy? Whose da momma? Youda momma?"

I don't expect any to survive l, but I will TRY to feed them the best I can lol

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I've never had Ludwigia grow baby plants through the substrate. Its propagated through cuttings.

WhistlingBadger said:

How long ago did you add the tabs? It can take a week or two for them to start looking healthy again. Swords don't seem to heal damaged leaves; they just grow new ones. That takes a while.

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I added them about 2 weeks ago...
Maybe next water change I'll do some trimming on the swords...

connorlindeman said:

I've never had Ludwigia grow baby plants through the substrate. Its propagated through cuttings.

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Well I haven't done any cutting with the Ludwigia. It spread like that lol. Weird...

Rocky998 said:

@Byron @WhistlingBadger @GaryE
Sorry for the tags, but I'm wondering what is going on with my amazon swords. Some of the leaves are turning yellow, and I thought the root tabs were wearing off from about 3-4 months back, so I added some more, but they are continuing to melt...
I'm very confused

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Sword plants belong to the genus Echinodorus. All species are marsh or bog plants, amphibious if you like. They can grow emersed or submersed. Many of them spend half the year emersed (the dry season), and half submersed (rainy season). The leaves are different for each; emersed leaves are stronger and constructed to conserve water, whereas the submersed leaves are weaker and designed to let water and nutrients enter the plant.

Echinodorus plants grow from a rosette, with new growth always from the centre. As this occurs, depending upon environmental factors (light and nutrients) the outer older leaves may die off. Provided the new growth is continuing, this is not problematical. These plants also move what are termed mobile nutrients from leaf to leaf. So if nutrients are not sufficient, the plant can move these nutrients to the new growth, and the older leaves slowly yellow. You can leave them attached until the base of the stem is brown, at which point nutrients can no longer move through and the leaf can be removed.

Of course other factors may b involved, I can't tell without a better photo.