George's Latest Aquascape

[plantbrain]

Well, the Dowoni, like most plants, gets leggy when you shade it with other plants.
A plant can tell if it's being shaded by another plant vs a Rock or piece of wood.
It response is to grow tall, rather than bushy.

I think Anubias petite would be nice, and you could farm that out as it grows, it'll do very well in an EI low light tanks BTW.

You'd make the $ back fairly quick and then have a nice look.
Dwarf Lobelia is the other weed that would do well and is cheaper and faster growing.
Moss/Monoselium rocks are another low light foreground.

I have some neat dwarf Hygro that is neat looking and is doing very well with lower light.
I'll take a pic and put it up on the sites.

Parva loves some helper nurse plants near it, and sunlight for 1-2 hours.
I've had it bloom under those conditions submersed in plain sand.

Regards,
Tom Barr

 

[Dave Spencer]

Very nice, atmospheric tank you have there George, and it is great to see this type of tank with no mosses.

However, I am going to have to be newbie upstart and take you to task with the symmetrical look.

Was this tank was already mature and stable when you took it over from daughter and added the current choice of plants?

Did you strip down the original scape in one go or change over to slow growing plants gradually?

Dave.

 

[George Farmer]

Thanks everyone.

Dave - funny how you mention the no-moss. I've just received some willow moss (thanks to a very kind fellow).....

Yes, too symmetrical, I know. Sounds like a cop-out but in the flesh it looks really well balanced. I think the colours/contrast from my photography don't do it justice yet. Anyway I have some plans for when I'm settled in my new house, so I'm looking forward to that. I'll keep most plants, just a rearrange and more wood/moss.

And yes, the tank was settled before I took it over. The fern was already a good size but I whipped out all the weeds and replaced them with crypts in one go. At first there was just the fern and C. undulata (left foreground) for a month or so. I particularly enjoyed replacing the platys, swordtails, neons etc. with my pentazonas. Despite my wife's protest....

 

[Miss Wiggle]

Glad to see you got away from HLD, high light disease.
Much easier to keep and maintain such tanks.
These are the types of tanks that run for decades.

just what i want in a tank that!!.... *goes off to start her own topic*

George your tank looks absolutely beautiful, you should be very proud

 

[afroturf]

George i love the tank, I'm planning a tank with lots of crypts to, where did you get them from?

 

[George Farmer]

Thanks Miss W and Steve,

The crypts are from Tropica, except the undulta from my LFS.

 

[R1ch13]

How the hell did i miss this?

Beautiful...

Never new you could make tanks that nice with low light!

Great work

Richie