A rookie planted tank

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Tony123639

Jack Dempsey
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May 31, 2010
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This is my first planted tank. It's a work in progress. I plan on taking the rock out as soon as the driftwood is water logged. The lemon bacopa looks un-natural because I just trimmed the tops and re-planted them in front.

I'm going to add more red on the right side to break up the green, I just haven't decided what plant exactly.

The tiger lotus is by far my favorite. I am also very fond of the over-sized amazon sword lol.

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LIST OF PLANTS
AMAZON SWORD
CARDAMINE
TIGER LOTUS
JAVA FERN
ANUBIAS
LEMON BACOPA

The tank is on the border of being low-tech. It has co2 injections but has fairly low light. 2x 15 watt life glo florescent tubes 6700k. Most people would call this a low light but I have been able to grow medium light plants very well.

ANY SUGGESTIONS ON A GOOD RED PLANT TO ADD?
 
got a good chuckle out of the rock part :P
as far as red plants that are decent in medium or low lights, I'd have to say any sort of common Ludwigia or Rotala that gets a hint of red
problem you might run into though, is that most red plants might only show their red in high light and high iron
btw, love the massive sword :P you got any fish or inverts in there?
 
Better than my first planted...it's not as easy as it looks
 
It's looking great, "rookie!" Hopefully they grow out nicely so it won't look too cramped in there :)

What fertilizer(s) do you use?
 
got a good chuckle out of the rock part :P
as far as red plants that are decent in medium or low lights, I'd have to say any sort of common Ludwigia or Rotala that gets a hint of red
problem you might run into though, is that most red plants might only show their red in high light and high iron
btw, love the massive sword :P you got any fish or inverts in there?
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I have been thinking about the ludwigia but I don't want the red to fade out because the lighting is too weak. Iron is not a problem. I dose liquid iron 3x a week.
Yes the tank is full of fish! But no invertebrates...
2 siamese algae eaters
2 ottos
2 panda cory cats
2 metae cory cats
8 tiger barbs
 
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