The journey continues...my rimless Aqua Forest
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Anybody care for some updates?!?!
Did some more re-scaping, thanks to my buddy Chonh saying I had too many plants lol! The rotala on the left side wasn't doing too good so I pulled it out and trashed it. Not sure why, ever since I got that batch of rotala it's been scraggly and leggy, with bits of algae on it. It never grew too good while my other rotala plants grow great.
Also gone is the cabomba furcata. Nice plant, but it only looks good from up top unless you give it a crapload of light. Otherwise it looks bare and leggy.
In the background I added a bunch of hygro (not sure what species). It goes like a weed and looks great as a background plant IMO. The hygro on the left side was planted from trimmings so it will be a few weeks before it reaches the top.
In other news, I switched out my no-name bulbs for some Giesemann bulbs. Huge difference in color! Hard to capture in pictures, but the bulbs really make the colors pop, all the reds and greens. I got the Aquaflora and Midday bulbs. Lately I've found that regular 10,000k bulbs were too blue, and 6,500k were too yellow. The Aquaflora is very pink, and the Midday is very crisp white. They go great together for a planted tank.
Well that's it for now, enjoy!
Did some more re-scaping, thanks to my buddy Chonh saying I had too many plants lol! The rotala on the left side wasn't doing too good so I pulled it out and trashed it. Not sure why, ever since I got that batch of rotala it's been scraggly and leggy, with bits of algae on it. It never grew too good while my other rotala plants grow great.
Also gone is the cabomba furcata. Nice plant, but it only looks good from up top unless you give it a crapload of light. Otherwise it looks bare and leggy.
In the background I added a bunch of hygro (not sure what species). It goes like a weed and looks great as a background plant IMO. The hygro on the left side was planted from trimmings so it will be a few weeks before it reaches the top.
In other news, I switched out my no-name bulbs for some Giesemann bulbs. Huge difference in color! Hard to capture in pictures, but the bulbs really make the colors pop, all the reds and greens. I got the Aquaflora and Midday bulbs. Lately I've found that regular 10,000k bulbs were too blue, and 6,500k were too yellow. The Aquaflora is very pink, and the Midday is very crisp white. They go great together for a planted tank.
Well that's it for now, enjoy!
update looks good, but it will take a week or more for your rescape to grow and be ready to trim to make the plant groupings more defined. so ill be back to look in a week
Haha sorry for the let-downWill Hayward;4546081;4546081 said:update looks good, but it will take a week or more for your rescape to grow and be ready to trim to make the plant groupings more defined. so ill be back to look in a week
Yeah the left side is pretty bare, and the background plants on the right still haven't grown past the group of rotala
Truly amazing tank, hope to see more in the future, maybe even some floating plants/plants that reach the surface.
Oh they reach the surface, trust me. That hygro (??) was growing out of the water just last night, but I trimmed it down 4"+ to have some trimming for the other side. I plan to let the hygro grow wild in the back, but keep the mid-level plants trimmed neatly.Tom LoFaro;4546484;4546484 said:
thanks folks
Thanks! All your fault, I was up till 1am last night and got no sleep lol. Actually I just looked it up, Hygrophila Polysperma. A damn water weed if I ever saw one!chonhzilla;4546228;4546228 said:
