Million's Planted Nano

[Themuleous]

Looks really, really nice to me the scape you have would seem to lend itself to having to planted pieces of wood in either corner, with a 'path' down the centre, which looks a bit cluttered to me at the moment.

Just a thought

Sam

 

[Million]

I agree, that's a nice idea, but I can't afford to buy any more bogwood at the moment! I found a gorgeous piece at the LFS, massive, £22 - damn student life

 

[ryanp15]

you posted on my post about planted betta tanks, thanks this is actually quite useful. I've found lots of information that people have told you

Your tank is looking good! I bet it's great now you've finished your exams, I'm doing my AS levels, one week until I'm finished Then I can do my bettas tank!

Also, do you use co2 in the big tank you have? It looks superb, I wish mine looked like that!

 

[GobyMaster]

Looks great!

I really hope when I set up my first planted, it look even close to the people's on this forum!

 

[Million]

Thanks very much guys!

Ryan, what you said about my questions and others' answers - that's the beauty of the forum eh? So much collective knowledge! I don't actually use CO2 in my main tank, I just keep low maintenance plants like anubias, java moss and java fern, and they seem to do ok anyway - it's quite low light too. The reason I went with CO2 in the nano, is because it's got much higher lighting, and I want more demanding plants, namely dwarf hairgrass. You can definitely get by without though, just choose plants wisely

 

[Million]

Yesterday I found a betta I liked enough to move in to the nano, and also moved out the old swords and in some of what the LFS called foxtail (though I'm not convinced). I have planted dwarf hair grass since last time too.

Tank in situ

Full frontal

Oto

New betta - Tony

Healthy Java moss with nice green tips

New plant - foxtail?

Hairgrass

Tony's back end

Tony amongst the water lettuce roots (PM ME IF YOU WANT SOME WATER LETTUCE!)

Opinions welcome as always,
Thanks for looking

 

[aaronnorth]

loving the mossy look

 

[Million]

loving the mossy look

The moss now has some fine green algae, not thready looking, more flossy... anyone have any ideas?

 

[saintly]

hi million, thought i'd pop in!

tank looks great! it'l look great when that grass gets going.

 

[Mauricia]

Does that tank have a cover?

 

[Million]

hi million, thought i'd pop in!

tank looks great! it'l look great when that grass gets going.

Thanks saintly, it's getting there. Gave the hair grass a trim today, so hopefully it will have a growth spurt now!

Does that tank have a cover?

Yeah, it has a cover glass

 

[saintly]

i didnt know you could trim it.

how? i my give it a go myself. i thought you just let it grow as it wants to

 

[Esfa]

i didnt know you could trim it.

how? i my give it a go myself. i thought you just let it grow as it wants to

i think its just like giving a haircut...

not sure, though.

 

[aaronnorth]

just trim it to the desired length, as far down as 1cm short. It is extremely annoying picking out all the pieces of grass though!

 

[saintly]

does triming encourage growth? i've just butchered mine!