My first real serious attempt at a live planted tank!!

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I noticed on the top of a few leafs on the Amazon sword plants are brown like this, should I cut the brown part off or just let it go and see what happens?

Thanks again for any help anyone can give me with this!!!

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Looks good. I often go through images and videos of planted tanks and enjoy others but I don't have the patience myself.
 
HybridHerp said:
I hate to break it to you but purple waffle and aluminum plant are not true aquatics. They will grow with their roots in water but that's it.


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+1 These plants are often sold in fish stores and I got hoodwinked into buying them years ago when I was starting out so they've been around forever.

The Amazon sword is looks like it was grown emersed so you are going to loose those leaves. As they transition you notice the leaves will become more blades starting from the bottom than the stem and spade look they have now.

If you have chain stores like Pet smart they have those package plants also grown emersed so they have to go through the transition but be careful some of those packaged plants are demanding and could be a waste of money if you don't meet their needs. (they don't tell you that on the packaging I think) Cryptocoryne balansae would be a good plant to put in the 90g being so deep it takes a while for it to establish itself but then takes off.
 
HybridHerp said:
I hate to break it to you but purple waffle and aluminum plant are not true aquatics. They will grow with their roots in water but that's it.


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Yeah it sucks because I did not figure that out until I already bought them.. When I got home from the pet store I looked them up and found that out!!!

O well i guess like everything else in this hobby you win some you lose some and you figure it out from your mistakes!!! I just figured a fish store would not be selling house plants as aquarium plants and lying to me about how well they will do with my set up after I explain everything I had and what I wanted to do!!!!
 
jay973 said:
If you have chain stores like Pet smart they have those package plants also grown emersed so they have to go through the transition but be careful some of those packaged plants are demanding and could be a waste of money if you don't meet their needs. (they don't tell you that on the packaging I think) Cryptocoryne balansae would be a good plant to put in the 90g being so deep it takes a while for it to establish itself but then takes off.
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I just looked up that Cryptocoryne balansae Plant and they are pretty nice looking... I want some tall grass looking stuff like that in there!!
I will have to look around and see if I can find some, That is the bad part about fish keeping around here we don't have no good fish stores around here, all we have are the 3 big "Pet" stores..... We use to have 1 good fish store in Toledo and he closed down last year, that was the only place I would deal with for the last 20 years now I am just stuck dealing with all these Non Educated Liars at the big pet stores!!

Thanks for the info. I will see if I can find some and let you know...
 
This was my best attempt in 90g tank without Co2. It had a HOB 110 and a sponge filter. Plant list was Anubias nana and narrow leaf java on some driftwood. Lighting was one of those Glo 2 bulb T5HO fixtures. Fish were black Angels and Congo Tetras. The big challenge was the nana this size because without Co2 growth is very slow so I'd move it from my high tech tank after it was big.

Just something else to consider.
 
jay973 said:
This was my best attempt in 90g tank without Co2. It had a HOB 110 and a sponge filter. Plant list was Anubias nana and narrow leaf java on some driftwood. Lighting was one of those Glo 2 bulb T5HO fixtures. Fish were black Angels and Congo Tetras. The big challenge was the nana this size because without Co2 growth is very slow so I'd move it from my high tech tank after it was big.

Just something else to consider.
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Wow very nice I really like that, Looks like it gives the fish a lot of room to hide and play!!! What kind of plant is that floating on the top left side?

Thanks again for the help Jay...
 
INTHECOWBOYSWETRUST said:
Wow very nice I really like that, Looks like it gives the fish a lot of room to hide and play!!! What kind of plant is that floating on the top left side?

Thanks again for the help Jay...
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That was one of the most frustrating plants I've ever owned Echinodorus vesuvius, if I remember correctly but it was mixed with some other clippings.
 
Hey,

Great start! Hope things turn out well.

Just an FYI, you will never get the amount of CO2 necessary to sustain plant life out of those air stones. I would suggest a CO2 infusion of some sorts. Just my two cents.
 
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