1st Proper Bash At A Planted Tank! Update! 15/05/07

[wei0204]

Congratulate on the nice riccia, hope to see some update soon....

 

[R1ch13]

Ok update ... in words only (sorry about that)

Riccia doing great

Hygrophila Corymbosa "Siamensis", doing fairly good sending out new leaves

Alternanthera reineckii ''roseafolia'' ('Pink'), not doing so well pearls alot but is slightly brown!

Java Moss doing fine as usual haha!

Riccia is by far my nicest and favorite plant now!

Its grown so well (only tied down around 9 days ago now and its already about 1cm and a half tall

It pearls too ... surprisingly!

On my ladder i get around 4 on it at same time about 1 every 7 seconds depending its sometimes one every 13 though!

Im redoing my c02 contraption tomorrow though! Making it 2 bottles instead of one to try and make it more stable

Still havent recieved my plants from Java hopefully here tomorrow morning!

Last thing...

I bought 3 lovely peppered cories yesterday there sooo entertaining and cute

Gonna get another 3 in around a week or so!

Thanks alot all

Richie

P.S Shall get pics soon!

 

[wei0204]

Regarding the CO2, if you are making your own mixture I would suggest you to add more yeast. That would help...

Hope things going well at your side...

 

[Themuleous]

Dont forget if you add more yeast you'll reduce the time the mixture will last as the sugar will get used up quicker.

Sam

 

[R1ch13]

I have 2x 750ml bottles .... with 400ml of water in each im going to add around 3/4 of a cup of sugar to each and around half a teaspoon of yeast!

Should be ok i suppose!

Will last a while and wont be to much ...

I was thinking of taking the Alternanthera reineckii ''roseafolia'' ('Pink') out of the tank!

All the green parts of it have gone brown and the nice purple undersides have gone a weird yellow-ey brown! producing a heck of alot of arial roots though!

What do you guys think ?

I should be getting my Hygrophila Polysperma and Tiger Lotus before the end of this week!

I expect they should do ok as the Hygorphila Corymbosa "Siamensis" is doing fine and Ive heard tiger lotus are great plants!

Thanks alot

Richie

 

[wei0204]

I am using 2 units of nutrafin co2 kit and I normally put half a teaspoon of yeast in the mixture, it will last about 4 days with slower co2 output. If I added more yeast, it will gives me higher co2 output and ended in four days too...

Tiger lotus is very easy to plant and grow so no worry...

 

[R1ch13]

I am using 2 units of nutrafin co2 kit and I normally put half a teaspoon of yeast in the mixture, it will last about 4 days with slower co2 output. If I added more yeast, it will gives me higher co2 output and ended in four days too...

Tiger lotus is very easy to plant and grow so no worry...

Thanks Luc!

My plants just arrived everythings ok apart from the Tiger Lotus looking like a pile of mush

Leave are all torn but i planted it anyway with a root tab underneath it... I can see a new stem developing so hopefully it should be ok!

What do you think i should do with my Alternanthera reineckii ''roseafolia'' ('Pink')

As the leaves are going a weird brownish colour .... i took it out to look and some seems to be algae but the rest is just brown leaves

Take out or leave in ?

Its just taking up valuable space and kinda shading some of my plants from the light !

Thanks alot

Richie

 

[R1ch13]

Update (More Rubbish Pics)

Comparison Pic, What it used to look like ...

... Now it looks like this (Better IMO)

Ricca went from this ...

... To this in just over two weeks, it even pearls!

Thanks for looking guys and thanks for all the help ive been given!

Richie

 

[Castellop123]

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[R1ch13]

I like the new look, Dude! Nice looking riccia as well (when it comes to your first trim, you can grow the left over riccia on more rocks; so you eventually end up with a large carpet that will cover the foreground!)

Thanks man really appreciate it

So with the Riccia do i just take it out the take an chop at it like a haircut ?

Or is it better to just untie it and restart over ?

Thanks a bunch

Richie !

 

[wei0204]

Wow, I really like how it looks now... but where is the tiget lotus?

Try to add in more plants too...

Good job!

 

[Themuleous]

Coming along really well when you prune the stems dont forget to put both halves in the substrate, that way you'll get a much denser mass of plants, which'll help how it looks

Sam

 

[R1ch13]

Luc

Tiger Lotus arrived like a pile of mush

I planted what was left of it but the next morning it was gone

When i say what was left of it i mean some roots and a tiny tiny tiger lotus shoot that was all that could be salvaged!

Thanks alot

Sam

Yeah I think ill wait till they hit the top of the water until i prune

Gonna prune riccia ... do i do this just as if i was giving it a haircut?

And plant it on more slate!

Thanks both of you

Richie

 

[Themuleous]

Yeh just cut it back with sharp scissors. Simple

Sam

 

[R1ch13]

Yeh just cut it back with sharp scissors. Simple

Sam

Thanking you Sam