new plants w/full tanks shots

[HarleyK]

Thanks for the kind words, guys

how many pounds of substrate did you use??

40 lbs of SeraFloredepot in the planted areas and then ~150 lbs 3M Colorquarz mix

what co2 system are you using

I do not believe in CO2 Used it years ago, didn't make a difference with the plants I keep.

Thanks Lupster

HarleyK

 

[HarleyK]

I did read one of your previous posts about it and wondered surely those aren't brigs. Canas are often confused with brigs. Brigs have smooth and well-defined whorls on their shells whereas canas have it rough. The sutures of the brig shells is 90 degrees angle while the canas' are less than that. Harley, yours could have been Pomacea canaliculata or Pomacea insularum.

Could you give me a positive ID?

Pic of their smaller days here:
http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=61795

 

[BichirAddict]

May have answered somewhere but, how many watts are you running on the 220 and 40?

 

[Gr8KarmaSF]

Awesome!!!!

 

[Lupin]

Could you give me a positive ID?

Pic of their smaller days here:
http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=61795

Brigs have peachy to white eggs. Yours laid a vast number of small pink eggs which is quite different from a small mass of large ones that the canas usually have. I'm positive your snails are Pomacea insularum, the largest apple snails there is (not counting the Pomacea maculata whose existence has yet to be proven although assumed to be an isolated population of canas and/or insularums). Pomacea haustrum lay green eggs so yours are not haustrums.

Juvenile insularums are voracious plant eaters (and so are adults although they slow down on that as they age) and will not care which one they eat even if it is utterly devoid of palatability which Java ferns are very famous for. They're not often seen in the petstores as these are illegal to ship around unless they were mislabeled for brigs but you can obtain them legally by getting them from other hobbyists within your state and collect them personally from ditches in Florida where their population has established.

Just as an added reference, the eggs are not exactly tasty which is why a lot of these clutches survive predation. It's obvious from their color alone.

 

[ZachAttack]

I do not believe in CO2 Used it years ago, didn't make a difference with the plants I keep.


HarleyK

Wow! you don't use CO2? I was thinking about injecting some into my tank, i thought everyone with really nice planted tanks used CO2...what do you use for fertilizer?

 

[Lupin]

Not everyone with a nice planted tank use CO2. You can have a nice planted tank fine without CO2. Try some undemanding plants such as Nymphaea lotus. Their red leaves make a good contrast to plenty of green ones.

 

[ZachAttack]

My plants are growing fine...my wisteria is just a little slow and i wanted to speed it up i also thought to get those really nice forest looks, which is what im hoping my wisteria will eventually grow into too, you had to inject CO2

 

[ZachAttack]

Also, do plants always have great roots like that when you buy them online? the ones i get from Petsmart are S*** compared to those

 

[Bizzaro]

40 lbs of SeraFloredepot in the planted areas and then ~150 lbs 3M Colorquar HarleyK

How the!? So its sand??? It looks like a thin layer. How good wil that be for the roots or is it just me? Ive been told for my 60g i need 2in hmm n i did 100% flor. I wish i mix the stuff... Can i see a close up of it?