Thanks lol, I plan to pick up some more plants today, once I get them situated in the tank I'll take some new pictures. Yesterday I got my order of baby Jungle Val plants, a bit of Hornwort, and some Mini Pellia.
Mike's 45 gallon long (48"x12"x19") planted tank
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Thanks lol, I plan to pick up some more plants today, once I get them situated in the tank I'll take some new pictures. Yesterday I got my order of baby Jungle Val plants, a bit of Hornwort, and some Mini Pellia.
Well I wasn't able to get out of the house today, but I'm hoping the local fish store I go to has some Ludwigia Repens, a couple Amazon Swords, maybe a Ozelot Swords, a Melon sword, but I'm really hoping to get some Hygrophila corymbosa for the tank. Hopefully I can get out of the house tomorrow, and see what they have!!!
So I just back from the fish store, picked up the only Hygrophila corymbosa they had, also picked up some Ludwigia Repens, Bacopa caroliniana, and they had this monster leaf Bleheri Amazon Sword!!! I'm talking the biggest leaf on the sword is bigger then the my entire hand, and it was only $5 lol... I'll take some pictures of the tank later tonight because the water is somewhat cloudy from planting the plants.
Went to fish store again today, and picked up some more Ludwigia Repens, a good size cryptocoryne wendtii, and 2 Amano shrimp to clean the tank!!! I'll be picking up more Amano shrimp because these 2 were just test subjects to make sure my tank was mature enough for them lol. Unfortunately I decided to lend my camera to a family member for their trip to the grand canyon, so new pics won't come until next week.
So here's a couple pictures of the tank taken with my cellphone, I'll get better pica once I get my camera back!!!
Well done Mike! I'm looking forward to seeing the plants grow in. What's the plan for stock? Is that a sandy area? GEOS?
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Thanks, yeah that's a sand area around the rocks, some of the plants have really taken off with amazing new growth. Not sure about the stock list just yet, currently the tank has 6 Amano shrimp working their magic on cleaning up the hair algae from the driftwood, and clearing out the dead plant detritus lying around the tank.
I'd love to have a clean up crew of Amano shrimp in my pts - but my fish would eat them! Looks like you spent quite a bit of time with the hardscape. Best layout so far on this setup :beer:
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Plenty of time spent on the hardscape, but the tank looks uncoordinated because the plants I just planted them anywhere lol. So I need to get started on a plant layout so it looks more uniformed, and it'll give the plants the ability to fill in the hardscape.
