Tanks With Plants And Corys

[jollysue]

I have gotten a tank started which will have plants. I hesitate to say a planted tank, because that means to many people a scaped tank. I just toss plants in and stick them in the soil hoping they will grow.

I personally, while enjoying the art of sclulpted tanks, think so far I enjoy the artless wild look.

So here are some pics of fish, especially Corys where there are plants.

This tank has orange stripe, undulatus, 2 juvie common Plecs for the African Rift tank, and the Blacks.

Only the blacks showed up for the shoot this time.

Look in the floating plastic plant on the left side of the pic

Silly fish: like my albino peppers, the Blacks like to rest off the ground in the trees.

Everything is a little dusty from the Flourite substrate. The gray stuff is actually very green in real life, it is moss.

As you can see the Blacks are busy creatures and do not hide from the camera.

This is a new plant I found in PetSmart

 

[piranha_tim]

I have gotten a tank started which will gave plants. I hesitate to say a planted tank, because the means to many a scaped tank. I just toss plants in and tick them in the soil hopping they will grow.

I personally, while enjoying the art of sclulpted tanks, think so far I enjoy the artless wild look.

So here are some pics of fish, especially Corys where there are plants.

This tank has orange stripe, undulatus, 2 juvie common Plecs for the African Rift tank, and the Blacks.

Only the blacks showed up for the shoot this time.

Look in the floating plastic plant on the left side of the pic

Silly fish: like my albino peppers, the Blacks like to rest off the ground in the trees.

Everything is a little dusty from the Flourote substrate. The gray stuff is actually very green in real life, it is moss.

As you can see the Blacks are busy creatures and do not hide from the camera.

This is a new plant I found in PetSmart

Do you find the fish become confused and swim against the tank where there are reflections of the plants on the side of the tank?

 

[jollysue]

I find that some fish get confused by relections, whether of plants or fish or whatever.

 

[jollysue]

The 100 usg Community tank is busy/ It has a pepper Cory clan with 2 runaways who joined through the Python tube. They are a young Wietzamani and a Pulcher variant. There are also 2 starlight Plecs, a clan of loaches: straita and dario, an appisto pair and a clan or ADFs and another of shrimp. The upper folk are Tetras.

Here a few shots from that tank:

The Odd Couple: the juvie Don Juan of the tank: C. wietzmanni and a young pepper lass

Just for fun: One of the starlight Plecs

And the appisto boy

 

[debbie888]

JollySue

Great pics....very scenic looking...infact when I looked again....it looks like a little underwater forest....! And love the pic of the cory popping outta the floating plant....looks like it was posing for you!

I think the tank looks bloody great.....!

Debbie

 

[Cory_Dad]

Looks better than any of my tanks...

 

[jollysue]

Thanks.

So far the first tank is called the Sierra Nevada tank, because it reminds me of the colors and such in the Sierra Nevadas.

The second tank is just called the 100 usg Community.

ICEEGRL is sending me some ground cover plants that should do well in the Sierra Nevada tank and stop some of the dust from the Flourite.

I need some real floating plants other than the moss, so the little guys can rest in something besides plastic. All the blacks rest in the floating plastic. So do my peppers. Maybe it keeps them from getting blown around from the filter

Sorry for all the typos in the original post. I will correct them now. So if something was unclear, check again.

 

[Cory_Dad]

No need to apologize for the typos, I'm use to them

What were you thinking of for ground cover?

I would have thought you'd want stem plants rather than floating plants for the blacks, it would be more stable, no?

Putting a tank together is way more fun than maintaining it. I think that's one reason why we all keep adding tanks.

 

[jollysue]

Amanda is sending me pygmy val.

Actually I have found that moss works very well as breeding mops and matresses. Fish also seem to like green hair algae for fry cover and as matresses.

 

[ICEEGRL]

The plants should get there today since they didn't come yesterday. I hope they are all still in good shape.
plant all of them... even if they are not looking their best. They may very well come back and do fine.

 

[ICEEGRL]

The plants finally got there, but then she got called to work. She got them all shoved in here and there, but no time to do it right.

I can't wait to see it all filled out.

I hope the blacks like the addition of more live plants... Maybe it will help convince them to make with the egg laying. I WANT BABIES!!!!

Hope to see pics of the finished product soon...

What exactly is that substrate again? Is that the red flourite or the regular? Is it mixed with something else?

 

[jollysue]

Regular--The top group of pics not the 2nd.

 

[jollysue]

Now I don't remember which Flourite it is. The photobucket caption says red.

Here are some new pics of the tank with ICEEGRL's plants. Very stragglely looking, but it will fill out. The plants are not properly distributed. I just wanted to get them in the ground. This is not rinsed substrate either so everything is dusty.

First a properly posing Peru orange stripe youth. He seemed quite sure he needed his pic taken and that you willl love him.

The stone is holding down the plants. They are being very annoying. They come lose and float straight to the top. When I try to replant them, 5 more come lose and float to the top.

The Corys there are blacks, undulatus, and Peru orange stripe. There is one green stripe visiting. I would love to put his whole tribe in, but I am afraid they will mix up the breeding.

 

[Barracuda518]

Looking good. Im sure it was said already, but what kind of plants are those? I could use some easy, tall growing plants that dont require a lot of maintence and CO2.

 

[jollysue]

I asked ICEEGRL to come dialogue with you on the plants.

I am a noob on plant names. I do run around 2 wpg of T-5 on most of my tanks that have or will have plants. But I would buy a chiller before I invested in a CO2.