My Babies

[icy]

Heres my aquarium, currently stocked with various coloured guppies, a handful of neon tets and 2 chequerboard sand loach, finally managed to get a couple of great shots, esp of the loaches

 

[guppy_man]

tank looks gd, not to keen on the bg tho, IMO i would go for a plain bg shows the fishes colours much better

 

[stang1]

 

[icy]

Am thinking of maybe losing the BG still undecided though, i love the way the sand loaches behave and seem to guard there hidey places, they are hugely entertaining to watch

tank looks gd, not to keen on the bg tho, IMO i would go for a plain bg shows the fishes colours much better

 

[spudgun2k]

really nice tank.

 

[Sammie7]

Nice tank. Just one thing, you should keep the rhizome on the java fern, the light green plant second farthest to the right, above the gravel or else it will die from lack of water circulation. The rhizome is the horizontal bar type thing that the leaves are growing out of. You can plant the roots just not the rhizome. You can also plant java fern on driftwood or anything you like. Just tie it down with some cotton thread and after a month or two it should root itself, and the thread should disentigrate.

 

[icy]

Nice tank. Just one thing, you should keep the rhizome on the java fern, the light green plant second farthest to the right, above the gravel or else it will die from lack of water circulation. The rhizome is the horizontal bar type thing that the leaves are growing out of. You can plant the roots just not the rhizome. You can also plant java fern on driftwood or anything you like. Just tie it down with some cotton thread and after a month or two it should root itself, and the thread should disentigrate.

Thanks for the advice sammy, when i got it it also has the silver band around the bottom, should thi be left in place or removed, i have never really known what to do with this, so i always just leave it on and bury it, am i doing wrong, i have now lifted the fern out of the sand.

 

[Sammie7]

By silver band do you mean the lead weight type thing that can be used to hold some plants down? If you can get the fern to stay without it, I say its not necessary. All that needs to be buried is the roots. If you can't get it to stay like that then you could use the lead weight.

 

[three-fingers]

The silver band will constrict it too much and should be removed, also java ferns should really be planted on stones or wood, not in gravel or sand. However mine is growing really well in the gravel so you could be ok.
Also, i'm no expert on plants, so i don't know what they are but a couple of your plants look non-aquatic(lots of places sell non-aqautic plants for aquariums). It would be worth visiting the planted board to see what they are, other wise they could die and spoil the tank water.
Its the fern looking plant on the left in picture number 8 and the tallest plant at the back far left of your tank .

 

[Sammie7]

The silver band will constrict it too much and should be removed, also java ferns should really be planted on stones or wood, not in gravel or sand. However mine is growing really well in the gravel so you could be ok.
Also, i'm no expert on plants, so i don't know what they are but a couple of your plants look non-aquatic(lots of places sell non-aqautic plants for aquariums). It would be worth visiting the planted board to see what they are, other wise they could die and spoil the tank water.
Its the fern looking plant on the left in picture number 8 and the tallest plant at the back far left of your tank .

I was thinking that very same thing. I have never seen an aquatic plant that looks like that yet. In my opinion it looks like something that should be in someones garden.