I'm going plant shopping today on the way home form work. There are two stores in my area that have decent plants and they are both on the way home.
I'm looking for more anubias and maybe a crypt, java moss, java fern, or some stalk type plants.
I need to trim the pennywort in Zeus' tank badly. It is easily five times as dense as what is in the picture. Which is only a week old. the stuff grows like a weed in 10+ watt gallon light. Probably because it is a weed..... but looks so cool.
Whatever they have that does not require co2 and will be ok in low (ares tank) or high (Zeus' tank) light, as I am running very low tech. No special substrates, no co2, regular strip light on Ares tank and an architects desk lamp with 10w (40w output) compact florescent on Zeus'.
If successful in finding good specimens I'll snap new pics tomorrow when everything settles.
I have some dwarf baby tears sitting in my tank right now ill have to plant them when get home and then ill post some pics
neenjar what type of plants are those lilly pad looking things?
The only plant that isn't real is the one with white leaves (but Flair loves that plant - so I kept it...). The plants are actually looking a lot better since they are acclimating - the dwarf hairgrass and crypt have grown like crazy since being planted!
The lilly pad looking plants are Brazilian Pennywort. It is technically a weed and grows like one, a lot of pruning needed, but looks cool
They are in both tanks, as well as anubias nana. Zeus' tank also has a spiral val in it that I took clippings from a friend. Plant shopping did not go so well today, nothing good. Tomorrow I will drive up to big als, they often have really nice plants.
=) first post in this area of the forum...so..my split betta tank..planted, of course...
Oh, the plants are Cambomba, Water Sprite, Anubias Lanceolata, and Crypt. Wentii...and some sort of Hygro that i'm not sure of
:tongue: aww thanks guys. Haha in all that tank is 10 gallons, but it's split unevenly right now, so the picture is of the 7 gallon side. I have some shrimp in there that do a pretty good job with the algae, and I use nutrafin plantgro and fertilizer tablet for the roots once every two weeks... XD the the fish seem to like the real plants better, and it's sort of fun to watch them grow and make cuttings (the plants, i mean).
Today went MUCH better than yesterday. I got a pristine wendtii green and red crypt that I was able to break into 2 plants. also anubias bateri, dwarf hair grass, cabomba, and a moss ball were added to what was in there. Ares got 1 of the 2 crypts, Zeus got the rest and when they get trimmed I will plant out Ares tank :-D
Wow neejar! I love it!! I wish I could have more live plants. I really like your moss ball and the other plant in the front of Zeus tank to the left of the hut.
haha yep, but I had to take it out cause I found out it leaches into the water and raises ph...that and one of my kuhlis scratched itself up on the rock. So I put a terracotta pot in its place and put the rock in my snake tank.
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