125L Oddball Adventure

[dtsw1106]

So I found some decent quality plants today and quickly threw them all in. Definately not happy with it. Need sone help with the placement of everything; it just looks very unnatural atm.

 

[dtsw1106]

So I ended up moving everything around and this is what I came up with. I think its better than before, but any suggestions/criticism is welcome.

 

[Staxx]

nice tank! love the contract between the dark substrate and wood then flashes of colour with the plants.

how big does the leopard fish get?

 

[dtsw1106]

Thanks! I think all I need to be happy with how it looks now is a bit of a carpet.
Does anyone have any low light carpet plants in mind?

The leopard bush fish get around 6" in the wild, but in aquaria 5" is already considered large.

Cheers

 

[Ps3Steveo]

What lighting do you have over it as it looks very dark? Helferi is a good low light carpet plant.

 

[dtsw1106]

The light is a 20w aquaglow bulb. I think its quite dark as well, although i'm not quite sure if theres a higher wattage 24" bulb available...

 

[Ps3Steveo]

Just wondered, its very low light but your plants are low light so should be fine.

 

[dtsw1106]

Helferi's a bit hard to come by in my area. I could try to get a LFS to special order it in, but they told me straight up they'd charge me a ridiculous price.
Do you think dwarf hairgrass would grow decently under the super low light environment that I have?

 

[Ps3Steveo]

Would do but would take a year or so to carpet.

 

[dtsw1106]

Gosh darnit
Might end up investing in a better light fixture for the tank. As I said from the first post I got this tank from a friend. The thing looks like it might be a decade old!