Just Installed The Lighting And The Custom-Made Lid.

Tzuppy was obviously not amused with the filming then! Tank is coming along well...I am slowly but surely coming round to the idea of a few plants for my tank now that I am not housing a plant-ripping JD; I want dark of course to go with the decor! I have some flame moss coming for Meldrew my skeleton so he can be wigged up, and frogbit floating, with some water lettuce on its way to join it. Researching dark-leaved plants now...
Usually, Tzuppy will wiggle his mustaches at the camera, but since he ate enough and it was day time when I filmed, he just went to sleep.
He's now roaming the tank again, seems he likes the evening more than the day, but he'll be active during the morning too, asking for food at the surface when he sees the lid lifted. I'm glad he finally decided to leave my fern alone. He will be seen most of the time with his snout into its roots while sleeping, but he does slip through its leaves every now and then.

Still, he managed to rip away most of my water sprite and make some kind of nest for Bee's fry -.- (the nest can be seen in the video, it remained there since the day I bought the fern).

Some dark plants would be the Java Moss (maybe grown on some decor too) or them moss balls if arranged as some part of the floor or whatever your imagination can make out of them. Or maybe some red-leaved plants but I've heard they need lots of iron (might like my tap water, as 55 mg/l of iron + whatever comes from the pipeline would be heaven for them).
 
Nice video fishblast.

JD---- Some Cryptocoryne Wendtii "Red" and "Brown" are nice dark plants and the leaves are suitably mysterious for your theme. You should look them up and see what you think. :) :good:
 
Nice video fishblast.

JD---- Some Cryptocoryne Wendtii "Red" and "Brown" are nice dark plants and the leaves are suitably mysterious for your theme. You should look them up and see what you think. :) :good:
Thank you.
Hmm, what kind of plants should I add on the side rocks? They will have to replace the ceratopteris (or live with what remained of it on the bottom).
I was thinking either Moneywort or Java moss (would be funny to have two plants with Java in their name...). But not sure if the moss would cause an imbalance and start eating everything and starving the other two plants. Something with long stalks that can grow from under a rock is what I'm looking for, but Cabomba would probably get eaten fast by my swordies or snails.
 
yeah, some java coming off the mopani to cover the pot would be good, I need to cover that - the only bit I feel thats out of place but covered with moss would be bang on!

Thanks FishFanatic04; like the look of that and will be on the prowl for some...even its name is perfect!

Would love to advise you FB but I am a complete plant-noob so will leave that to the green-fingered folk!
 
yeah, some java coming off the mopani to cover the pot would be good, I need to cover that - the only bit I feel thats out of place but covered with moss would be bang on!

Thanks FishFanatic04; like the look of that and will be on the prowl for some...even its name is perfect!

Would love to advise you FB but I am a complete plant-noob so will leave that to the green-fingered folk!
I'll ask in planted section, although I think my current plants need some time to show how they are adapting with the new light. Maybe a week or so, then I'll see if I lack anything for them to feed on. The Fern seems to be happy, but not sure about those tiny bulges it gets, they might be spots for new plants, but they could also be some kind of parasite...
And I'm quite happy to see a new sprout of the ceratopteris, which grew kind of fast. Hope Lorenzo finds something else to eat, other than that sprout.
 
just expressed an interest in some java off a forumite in planted classifieds!

Are the fern 'bumps' on the underside of the leaf? - I know that land-based ferns have such bumps; they are the fruit, or seed of the plant so no worries if thats the case for aquatic ones as well (which makes evolutionary sense); wind dispersal on land, current dispersal in the wet stuff! Hope thats the case for you! Stick up a pic in plants and I'm sure someone will confirm or refute that...
 
just expressed an interest in some java off a forumite in planted classifieds!

Are the fern 'bumps' on the underside of the leaf? - I know that land-based ferns have such bumps; they are the fruit, or seed of the plant so no worries if thats the case for aquatic ones as well (which makes evolutionary sense); wind dispersal on land, current dispersal in the wet stuff! Hope thats the case for you! Stick up a pic in plants and I'm sure someone will confirm or refute that...
Yes, they are under the leaves. I'm hoping for new plants to come out of them some day. Or whatever they can throw out, spores or something.
 

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