ere is my original thread when I first planted my 75g
http://www.piranha-fury.com/pfury/index.php?showtopic=183038
It was going great for a while then I was gone for training for a month in july and friend took care of tanks. Things grew a lot while I was gone and he dosed with ferts a couple times a week but no maintenance was being done while I was gone (besides wcs).
I trimmed and moved things around when I got back and everything was going very well. I didn't anticipate how some plants would grow and how they would look in the placement I had them. Some plants (Heteranthera zosterifolia, rotala sp. green, and Ludwigia repens x arcuata) just grew out of control and blocked a lot of light for the other plants.
I cut back a lot of the rotala sp. green and Ludwigia repens x arcuata and had so much of it for a while.
Anyways I got really busy at the end of august with being a full time student, rotc, and working 25-35 hours a week, and sort of let the tank go. Stop fertilizing on a daily basis and let the algae grow out of control. Last week I spent a couple hours scraping the algae off, ripping a lot of dead plants and debri out and replanting some plants. I like the way it looks now and hopefully it will grow in the way I think it will in my head.
Anyways here is an updated pic, I will get back to weekly water changes and dosing every day
Lost a lot of plants, my original list was
Hemianthus micranthemoides for ground cover
Rotala rotundafolia
Rotala sp 'green
Rotala wallichi
Limnophila aromatica
Heteranthera zosterifolia
Blyxa japonica
Cryptocoryne wendtii
Cryptocoryne balansae
Ludwigia repens x arcuata
and one or two anubias and a couple large rocks with flame moss attached.
Now I have
Hemianthus micranthemoides for ground cover
Rotala rotundafolia
Rotala sp 'green
Limnophila aromatica - only a few small stems left, trying to get more, one of my favorite plants
Heteranthera zosterifolia
Cryptocoryne wendtii
Cryptocoryne balansae
and an anubias and the flame moss
Lost all the blyxa japonica and would like to get some more and all the Ludwigia repens x arcuata but that was given with some other plants I purchused so I put it in the tank anyways, was never in the original plan. No more Rotala wallichi, couldn't get it to grow at all in the beginning.
trying to get the tank they way I like it before adding either the manuelli back to the tank or a brandtii.
first couple pics are the what the tank first looked like, and progression over the months.
LAST TWO PICS are the updated pics taken today.
first set up-
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couple weeks in-
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about a month after the last picture, after adding co2 and ferts
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the next picture with the manuelli in it was taken less than a month and a half ago. probably early late august early sept, prob two months after the last picture.
and the last two after the one with the manuelli is the present.
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as you can see I lost a lot of plants between those two updates, hopefully with persistent care now I can get it back to full looking with a nice carpet
http://www.piranha-fury.com/pfury/index.php?showtopic=183038
It was going great for a while then I was gone for training for a month in july and friend took care of tanks. Things grew a lot while I was gone and he dosed with ferts a couple times a week but no maintenance was being done while I was gone (besides wcs).
I trimmed and moved things around when I got back and everything was going very well. I didn't anticipate how some plants would grow and how they would look in the placement I had them. Some plants (Heteranthera zosterifolia, rotala sp. green, and Ludwigia repens x arcuata) just grew out of control and blocked a lot of light for the other plants.
I cut back a lot of the rotala sp. green and Ludwigia repens x arcuata and had so much of it for a while.
Anyways I got really busy at the end of august with being a full time student, rotc, and working 25-35 hours a week, and sort of let the tank go. Stop fertilizing on a daily basis and let the algae grow out of control. Last week I spent a couple hours scraping the algae off, ripping a lot of dead plants and debri out and replanting some plants. I like the way it looks now and hopefully it will grow in the way I think it will in my head.
Anyways here is an updated pic, I will get back to weekly water changes and dosing every day
Lost a lot of plants, my original list was
Hemianthus micranthemoides for ground cover
Rotala rotundafolia
Rotala sp 'green
Rotala wallichi
Limnophila aromatica
Heteranthera zosterifolia
Blyxa japonica
Cryptocoryne wendtii
Cryptocoryne balansae
Ludwigia repens x arcuata
and one or two anubias and a couple large rocks with flame moss attached.
Now I have
Hemianthus micranthemoides for ground cover
Rotala rotundafolia
Rotala sp 'green
Limnophila aromatica - only a few small stems left, trying to get more, one of my favorite plants
Heteranthera zosterifolia
Cryptocoryne wendtii
Cryptocoryne balansae
and an anubias and the flame moss
Lost all the blyxa japonica and would like to get some more and all the Ludwigia repens x arcuata but that was given with some other plants I purchused so I put it in the tank anyways, was never in the original plan. No more Rotala wallichi, couldn't get it to grow at all in the beginning.
trying to get the tank they way I like it before adding either the manuelli back to the tank or a brandtii.
first couple pics are the what the tank first looked like, and progression over the months.
LAST TWO PICS are the updated pics taken today.
first set up-
couple weeks in-
about a month after the last picture, after adding co2 and ferts
the next picture with the manuelli in it was taken less than a month and a half ago. probably early late august early sept, prob two months after the last picture.
and the last two after the one with the manuelli is the present.
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as you can see I lost a lot of plants between those two updates, hopefully with persistent care now I can get it back to full looking with a nice carpet
