My First Planted

[reggieschuey]

sorry perhaps i missed it, whats in your substrate?
this looks too good to be first planted aquarium don't lie hahaha! really well done!

 

[iSnail]

How's your riccia balloon growing btw?

 

[Heather.]

One word.....STUNNING.. Love the little betta.. x

 

[LondonDragon]

i love your tank, its wicked!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! so jealous

Thanks

sorry perhaps i missed it, whats in your substrate?
this looks too good to be first planted aquarium don't lie hahaha! really well done!

Substrate is just plain gravel, this tank was originally setup as a goldfish coldwater tank, then became a plastic planted tank and then what you see now, and never bothered changing the substrate.

How's your riccia balloon growing btw?

Got rid of it after a while, it was growing ok but no longer in a ball shape and the fish kept swiming into the thread holding it.

One word.....STUNNING.. Love the little betta.. x

Unfortunately it passed away RIP little betta!

 

[Budde]

Great looking tank. Love the design, plants, and fish you have in there.



Josh

 

[Tom4Fish]

Your tank is great! where did you buy your plants from? they are wonderfull thanks

 

[backtotropical]

Hi, love the tank, well done!

I love the Nymphaea Lotus. Stunning.

all you need to do is change the lighting

Which lighting do you use now?

 

[LondonDragon]

Great looking tank. Love the design, plants, and fish you have in there.
Josh

Many thanks

Your tank is great! where did you buy your plants from? they are wonderfull thanks

The plants are purchased from a local fish store, the riccia was purchased from a forum member. thanks

Hi, love the tank, well done!
I love the Nymphaea Lotus. Stunning.

all you need to do is change the lighting

Which lighting do you use now?

I use a light unit purchased on ebay for £46+Del, 4 x 24w T5

 

[LondonDragon]

Hello everyone,

Over the last couple of weeks I have been moving things around. I had 3 Clown Loaches in the tank for just over 3 years from my time before moving to planted and they were causing havoc with uprooting plants etc... they were rehomed last Saturday and gave me an oportunity to redo somethings and get the tank back on track.
My place was a building site for about 6 months and the tank was just left there feeling very neglected, since I was doing a lot of the work myself after my job, there went the evenings and weekends. The only plants that didn't survive was the Riccia and HC, and the green plant I had on the left hand side which I have no idea what it was called. Also on the left hand side underneath the plants there was a large 15cm diameter by 30cm long plastic tube where the loaches used to hide which I have now also removed. During that time the Anubias grew like mad now I have lots just from one tropic pot, silly me left them out too long while moving things about and some of the leaves dried out

The plants have been trimmed quite a bit so needs a couple of weeks to grow back, last week got a couple of pots of HC which I planted on the left hand side and this week received some glosso and mosses, which I planted yesterday. The glosso is away pearling which I guess its a good sign, I am trying it on my pea size gravel and see how it goes, if it doesn't hold I will change the gravel.

OK enough for today, here are some photos I just took.

Full tank shot:

Created a moss wall on the back of the tank using a wire mesh, just want to see the effect when it grows.

And a photo of my favourite fish

As always comments and critics always welcomed.
Thanks for looking

 

[big-george91]

nice tank and fish

interesting idea with the mesh cant wait to see what happens

good luck

 

[LondonDragon]

nice tank and fish
interesting idea with the mesh cant wait to see what happens
good luck

Thanks Its weeping moss in the mesh so it should create a nice effect, just have to wait and see.

 

[LondonDragon]

Hi everyone,

Just thought I would give you another update before the water change.

For comparisson, here is last week Saturday:

Here is today:

Since the last update the glosso and HC is starting to fill in, its been a bit of a strugle as my corys go digging in the middle of it and end up uprooting it, I have been replating it every day as it floats.
Also added some Blyxa to the middle, due to this have placed the weeping moss mesh at the back on the horizontal, its starting to show signs of growing now, not fast by any means hehe
Over the last week I have only been dosing TPN+ as I ordered a bottle by mistake of my usual TPN, I will keep dosing this until I get my pressurised system which should arrive any day now. Once I get the CO2 system installed I will move to complete dry ferts.

Full tank shot and a couple more photos of plants:

Thanks for looking, as always critics and comments always welcomed

 

[LondonDragon]

Just another quick update, I have now added the pressurised CO2 system, only been up and running for two days.
I have also moved to complete EI fert dosing with the addition of MgS04. Since the last update added a little piece of bogwood with some branches on the left hand side, and to it added some dwarf riccia.

For comparisson, this is two weeks ago:

This is today (moved the lighting a little back to highlight the moss wall):

This is a close-up of the weeping moss wall:

And this is a close-up of the glosso, did a trim of some older leaves that were developing some algea.

Thats all for now, critics and comments always welcomed

 

[RadaR]

Nice one mate.
Really liking the "tree" on the left.

 

[turnnidge]

I am so jealous!!!

I wish my tank was that amazing!! All my plants keep gettin uprooted or the leaves keep falling off

I just love the natural look you have.

After my holiday in June I will be definately investing in a lot plants.

I love the moss wall as I hate putting false backgrounds on! Altough I never had one lol
How did you do the wall, if you dont mind me asking.