A Little Help Needed Re-planting Tank

[Gadgetman1805]

Hey everyone!

excellent sticky's been reading them and after much debate went for a nutrafin C02 kit been running for a few days now and already can start seeing an increase in my water wysteria growth

however, i am looking to replant perhaps the whole tank again purley because i brought plants of ebay in a batch! majority of them after doing some research were non aquatic and had started to rot within a few weeks!

Currenlty ive started to notice a kind of black hair like substance growing on the end of leaves! so i want to get rid of those plants before the algae starts to spread a fair bit. Ive noticed its leached onto a few other plants into the tank ie..the butterfly fern.

Ive included a picture of my tank currenlty and was wondering if anyone could suggest nice hardy plants, but do look stunning in the enviroment i have.

what im really after is a heavily planted tank with lots of greenery and floor fillers like grass growing matts etc


by the right hand side of the tank (where the cave is) some long growning grass to go right round the side and the back of the cave.


currently i am making riccia matts to go along the bottom and plant onto slate,

i was wondering whats the best types of plants that will go fairly high in the tank as backround plants

and maybe some mid level am a bit lost but would be grateful for any suggestions people could give

ordered some plants of Java-plants but theyre so slow! still havent recieved them.


would be grateful for any input anyone can give..

The tanks 180 litre Juwel vision,

currently running Eheim 2028,

uv sterliser 9W (intermittently turn on)

hydor bubble lamp (lots of air bubbles into the tank ) far left hand corner....

Jager 125w heater.

Thanks

 

[nry]

If you re-arrange some of what you have it would be a good start, the wysteria would be better suited to the back of the tank and not close to the fron where it is now.

Also, the bubble-lamp will make much of your CO2 pointless, the bubbles will drive off the CO2 (through surface agitiation) as quickly as your Nutrafin kit can make it. Personally I would turn the bubbles off, run them at night if you wish, but otherwise you are wasting all or most of your CO2.

 

[arif_93]

nice tank but i noticed you have two stem plans that look just like a dracena a common non aquatic plant sold by alot of fih shops i kno that maidenhead aquatics have alot of these. while they will be ok for now after about or 6 months they will rot creating alot of mess in ur water not worth the hassle i didnt kno this and had to pay the consequences i have to do a near full water change and clean everything !

 

[Gadgetman1805]

nice tank but i noticed you have two stem plans that look just like a dracena a common non aquatic plant sold by alot of fih shops i kno that maidenhead aquatics have alot of these. while they will be ok for now after about or 6 months they will rot creating alot of mess in ur water not worth the hassle i didnt kno this and had to pay the consequences i have to do a near full water change and clean everything !

Thanks for the comments just got rid of the 3 stem plants i had, planted them outside in the garden! its slightly annoying to find out that most of my plants werent aquatic! i dont kno why they bother selling them if they start to rot and die ah well lesson learned. took advice about turning off bubble lamp too reduced eheim filter spray bar pressure as well so as much c02 can go in.

Going to chop up the wysteria in four diff sections is there a technique to it? anyone had experience with it

 

[arif_93]

cut at the stems near the bottom