My 330L Planted Tank Journel

[Zikofski]

Okay i have had a 330L Tank journel in the New Freshwater Tank Section but i am going away fro 4 Months so i thought i shall put a post up here with a before and after pictures so i can you guys can see and compare the difference in 4 months all i am adding to the tank is Low green Solution sold on ebay thats its, so far all my plants are growing have a bit of algae i may try introducing Co2 when i get back who knows but here are the pictures

Small Crypt at the Front of tank

My new Tiny Crypt this started out as just one leaf then my Pleco buried it I'm surprised it has grown

I think there is an Anibus growing on the sand next to it as well, when i planted that plant i weren't sure what it was so il attach it to the wood when i get back if it turned out to be anibus

My Large Crypt at the back, this has taken very well just turned purple

My two Anibus on the far left side of the tank these have melted quite badly lost a lot of leaves but i think my plec is half to blame for this

This is my Anibus middle but left of my tank, this has also been eaten a lot by my plec but it is slowly growing back strong /u]

This is my Anibus in the middle but right this is probably the best growing anibus i have

Picture of my whole tank plants, this one is for the twisted vellas i haven't noticed the tall ones growing but the smaller shoots have grown and the ones i trimmed because of melting have grown more, my fingers are crossed they grow

 

[Zikofski]

okay not sure who is watching this, but hey ,

its been over 4 months now but i shall now post up the pictures from my tank

there are two versions some before my deep clean and some after the deep clean, the tank got pretty manky without me but 80% of my fish survived sadly i lost my huge plec no idea why along with some of my corry's

since then i have bought two baby pleco's unsure on what they are BUT the shop informed me they dont grow big we shall see in the future i guess and i bought 6 clown loaches

so here are the pics

Before my Deep Clean

as you can see the plants have grown masivly to my delight sadly we have a huge algue problem but i know exactly what is causing that (my Gf refused to clean my filters)

but those pictures where taken 3 weeks after the last water change


After my Deep Clean

okay becasue of the state the tank was in i decided to do a deep clean taking two days, this including draning the whole tank of water 100% taking everything out including plants, rock and wood, i moved the fish to a temp home, using the same water and one of my filters so no change for them other than smaller home, i washed and cleaned all the plants sadly i lost most of my anibus due to stupidity left the log outside for to long and they dried up, one survived and is re growing so il cut and regrow that one for now,

all fish survived this ordeal and spaced out the plants a bit more

again i took these 3 weeks after the deep clean so cleaning the filters makes the difference when it comes to my algue problem

so here are the pics

 

[Sharpy1987]

looks good mate!

the vallis looks good. Will look even better as it grows taller.

my opinion: I'd add some amazon swords maybe to the area where the bubbles are or where the vallis is on the far right of the tank. I'd also add some moss to the wood. It would give it a really good natural look. I hope you dont take offence, i wouldnt personally have the rocks that are stood up in the tank. The ones to the right that are making a cave look good, theyd look even better if they have a few plants around them

 

[DaveStu]

It looks promising as it is, as Sharpy has said I think you could take it to the next level with more plants in the midground and some moss on the wood. For me the large piece dominates the tank just a little too much at the moment but Im sure your growing Vallis will help in that respect over time too.