Have a great holiday CC! Trust your dad, I trust my mom when I go on trips, no worries. Can't wait to see the new Juwel Record 70l you've got planned. The setup sounds like something right up my alley. Welcome to the jungle. I can suggest some great plants to create the effect you want and save you some. My 36g is setup like that.
I've been reading your journal (sorry I missed it) and am actually quite surprised at the growth you are getting considering the light you have. 11W over your PFK cube, if I remember the dimensions correctly, wasn't a lot of light. A testament to the benefits of adding CO2 and a proper substrate to tanks with lower light levels. Good job. I probably wouldn't of added CO2 myself, and then chosen my plants accordingly. But everybody here knows how lazy I am.
The light levels is probably the reason why you're getting more vertical growth in your UG, however. About your Ceratopsis, after a year or so, the plant actually begins to die off as it produces new plantlets. Typical fern. Just something to watch for. It can also grow really, really big. A better choice for your size nano would be R. rotundifolia or even Hemianthus micranthemoides. Both would do extremely well in your setup and really do well as fast-growing stemplants in these tiny little nanos.
Again, I apologize for missing this thread, but I was preparing for my exams, which I passed.
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