planted tank showoff

[OIJ]

My humble relatively newbie project....

 

[RYO]

Still got some way to go to catch some of these tanks up , great work guys n girls.
(lol just noticed maybe i need to update sig)

 

[mrV]

The old jungle in my bedroom:

And the soft bushes in livingroom:

Close-up:

 

[tear-scar]

A work in progress:

 

[Warr40]

i need to get my tank cycled so i can put my plants in and snap sum pics

 

[Aussie_Star]

dont need to cycle, get the plants int here and going. They will do it for ya

 

[mrV]

dont need to cycle, get the plants int here and going. They will do it for ya

[snapback]844790[/snapback]​

Meaning exactly what?

First of all.. I recommend to cycle the tank without plants, because then you can keep your lights off = no algae growing like they usually do during cycling process. When the cycling is almost done, buy a huge load of plants. Plant them, give them nutrients and CO2. Let the tank still cycle for it's end.

Benefits:
- no huge algae growing during cycling
- tank is fully cycled before fishes come
- lots of plants will "remove" nutrients from algaes and they don't have a chance to grow

 

[superjalami30]

**tear-scar**

What kind of substrate is that in your tank pic above?

 

[tear-scar]

superjalami30: That's Red Sea's "Flora Base" and it is awesome

On Cycling: I agree 100% with aussie star, you want to have the tank with as many plants as possible right from the outset. Light or no light, you have planting substrate in the tank, you can get algae. You need plants to fight it. Plus you want the tank to be drained during the planting process anyway. Plants also really accelerate the cycling process. I don't even keep track of cycling anymore.

 

[flash]

Here you are, my main tank.

Had to take the pic with my mobile coz some thieving chav stole my digi camera, argh.

 

[Mr Miagi]

Updated again!

 

[Aussie_Star]

dont need to cycle, get the plants int here and going. They will do it for ya

[snapback]844790[/snapback]​

Meaning exactly what?

First of all.. I recommend to cycle the tank without plants, because then you can keep your lights off = no algae growing like they usually do during cycling process. When the cycling is almost done, buy a huge load of plants. Plant them, give them nutrients and CO2. Let the tank still cycle for it's end.

Benefits:
- no huge algae growing during cycling
- tank is fully cycled before fishes come
- lots of plants will "remove" nutrients from algaes and they don't have a chance to grow

[snapback]844897[/snapback]​

you will always have algae in a newly setup tank, just becasue you cant see it, its somewhere there your levels are always out.

algae will not grow unless it has the bacteria etc to grow. If you put plants into first up they use all these to grow, so you will have every little algae which is good to put algae into to settle them into the tank. i did if for my 187 gall planted and it worked a treated, but i have my algae problem casue i wasnt adding right amount of ferts.

 

[Maroonostrich]

My first tank, there are a couple more plants in now, and it's brand new...

 

[Adistar]

Very nice tanks everyone!

 

[Beta 93]

oh how i wish i had time for real plants