(If you don't wish to read this all just skip to the bottom where I'm going to put the short version.)
I figured since I've been planning to plant my 75 gallon for the longest time and it will be a VERY unique tank, I figured that it would be good to share it with everybody here.
You saw where I said it would be a very unique tank, that's because I'm overcoming the challenges of planting a tank with a herd of underwater cows, aka silver dollars, and I don't wish to take the normal road that most people take when they're planting with silver dollars. I'm going in a way that I'm pretty confident no one or very few people have gone with before. I'll now explain what I'm envisioning.
First off, I will get curved lucky bamboo in lengths of 18 inches, 24 inches, 36 inches, and 48 inches. I hope to eventually once I get the main planting done to slowly acquire 60 inch pieces. I've found a few sites that sell them but they charge a lot. I can get 10 stalks of 48 inch curved bamboo for the price of 1 stalk of 60 inch straight lucky bamboo, oddly enough I can not find curved 60 inch lucky bamboo. I will only be able to buy 1-3 pieces at a time so it will obviously take a long time to get all that I want.
This is a rather newly added part of the plan but I intend to also get some lotus bamboo for the tank. They're an oddball when it comes to plants and I love the look of them. Here is a link to some I found for sale on amazon.
https://www.amazon.com/Jmbamboo-5-s...pID=51VFDRpS3IL&preST=_SY300_QL70_&dpSrc=srch
Finally the last part of planting, this idea is rather bizarre but beautiful.
I'm going to get a large amount of long-ish straight driftwood pieces, think of a stick. Anyway, I'm going to then use fishing line to bind the driftwood together so it creates a wall basically that expands across the back of my 75 gallon. Then I'm going to acquire a large number of anubis nana, I'm thinking 20-30, and use fishing line to fasten them to the driftwood and have them wedged in between the cracks of the driftwood so they can eventually take root on their own. Eventually the anubis nana will completely cover the driftwood wall and just create a whole wall of anubis nana.
Now for the short version, this is what it will eventually look like once I'm completely finished.
I'll have a row of 60 inch straight lucky bamboo in the back of my 75 gallon. I'll have another row of 48 inch pieces in front of the 60 inchers. The third row will be 36 inchers. The 4th row will be 24 inchers. 5th row will be 18 inchers. I'll have a bundle of lotus bamboo on each side of the 75 gallon in the corners. In front of the 5th row will be a row of driftwood with anubis nana growing across it eventually creating a dense vertical carpet of anubis nana.
So, what does everybody think?
I figured since I've been planning to plant my 75 gallon for the longest time and it will be a VERY unique tank, I figured that it would be good to share it with everybody here.
You saw where I said it would be a very unique tank, that's because I'm overcoming the challenges of planting a tank with a herd of underwater cows, aka silver dollars, and I don't wish to take the normal road that most people take when they're planting with silver dollars. I'm going in a way that I'm pretty confident no one or very few people have gone with before. I'll now explain what I'm envisioning.
First off, I will get curved lucky bamboo in lengths of 18 inches, 24 inches, 36 inches, and 48 inches. I hope to eventually once I get the main planting done to slowly acquire 60 inch pieces. I've found a few sites that sell them but they charge a lot. I can get 10 stalks of 48 inch curved bamboo for the price of 1 stalk of 60 inch straight lucky bamboo, oddly enough I can not find curved 60 inch lucky bamboo. I will only be able to buy 1-3 pieces at a time so it will obviously take a long time to get all that I want.
This is a rather newly added part of the plan but I intend to also get some lotus bamboo for the tank. They're an oddball when it comes to plants and I love the look of them. Here is a link to some I found for sale on amazon.
https://www.amazon.com/Jmbamboo-5-s...pID=51VFDRpS3IL&preST=_SY300_QL70_&dpSrc=srch
Finally the last part of planting, this idea is rather bizarre but beautiful.
I'm going to get a large amount of long-ish straight driftwood pieces, think of a stick. Anyway, I'm going to then use fishing line to bind the driftwood together so it creates a wall basically that expands across the back of my 75 gallon. Then I'm going to acquire a large number of anubis nana, I'm thinking 20-30, and use fishing line to fasten them to the driftwood and have them wedged in between the cracks of the driftwood so they can eventually take root on their own. Eventually the anubis nana will completely cover the driftwood wall and just create a whole wall of anubis nana.
Now for the short version, this is what it will eventually look like once I'm completely finished.
I'll have a row of 60 inch straight lucky bamboo in the back of my 75 gallon. I'll have another row of 48 inch pieces in front of the 60 inchers. The third row will be 36 inchers. The 4th row will be 24 inchers. 5th row will be 18 inchers. I'll have a bundle of lotus bamboo on each side of the 75 gallon in the corners. In front of the 5th row will be a row of driftwood with anubis nana growing across it eventually creating a dense vertical carpet of anubis nana.
So, what does everybody think?
