Planted Tank Show and Tell!!

[Sparrowhawk]

Originally Posted by FishyFishy89

Do you mean duckweed or frogbit?
Either way, their both good in my book.

Duckweed's awesome... Until you want to remove it, haha, it's almost impossible! I did love mine until I decided I didn't want it anymore. :P It was an excellent nutrient sponge and grew like wildfire, but the frogbit's growing at about the same pace and is far easier to pluck out if it overruns the place. XD

[FishyFishy89]

Originally Posted by Sparrowhawk

Duckweed's awesome... Until you want to remove it, haha, it's almost impossible! I did love mine until I decided I didn't want it anymore. :P It was an excellent nutrient sponge and grew like wildfire, but the frogbit's growing at about the same pace and is far easier to pluck out if it overruns the place. XD

I think I may send Olympia's goldies some of my duckweed xD
They'll love me for the awesome snack.

[Sprinkles55]

Originally Posted by aokashi

moved the filter :O
found a forest of plants on the left side!!!

sucky phone camera takes over exposed photos :(

Wow, your tank is beautiful! What's the plant on the bottom front? :)

[aokashi]

Originally Posted by Sprinkles55

Wow, your tank is beautiful! What's the plant on the bottom front? :)

Hermianthus Glomeratus, Erronously known as HM, lol. love the stuff :D
I trimmed my tank the other day, unfortunately it doesn't look trimmed at all, haha

[motherpeters]

I love your tank. The decorations you chose are some of my favorites too!

Originally Posted by DanielaMarie

You all have some amazing tanks! I'm currently in the process of redoing my tank due to my plants dying off from an algae bloom. I currently have a few amazon swords in the back of the tank and some anacharis floating. Do you guys have any suggestions on additional plants? It's a 10 gallon with Petco sand substrate and I'm working on making it heavily planted. Here it is currently; the small swords in the middle and foreground will be replaced.

[AyalaCookiejar]

Originally Posted by aokashi

Hermianthus Glomeratus, Erronously known as HM, lol. love the stuff :D
I trimmed my tank the other day, unfortunately it doesn't look trimmed at all, haha

I honestly like the overgrown/untrimmed look. I just think it looks more natural. It's a hard look to get, though, if you don't have live plants and you try too hard to make it look all organized and whatnot (even though I also have yet to see a planted tank I did not like, so I guess that's a little irrelevant, lol).

I got my live plants in the mail last Thursday :) they are in QT containers and will be staying there until I get the rest of my girls and get them QTed, too. I'm really hoping I can keep them alive. So far, the anubias and java moss are the only two that look perfect and my hornwort turned into a pile of mush while it was being shipped :(

[DanielaMarie]

Thank you motherpeters. My goal has always been to have a jungle look and I thought these pieces would fit in nicely.

Aokashi: I'd say your tank is trimmed nicely to still be overgrown and easily viewable at the same time.

[LittleBettaFish]

Here is an updated shot of my 20cm 'paludarium' cube.







Mum wants to make a feature of this when I convert it over to a 60-F tank. Going to be using seiryu rock as well as the belem hairgrass, staurogyne tropica, HC, native pennywort and glosso I have going over in my emersed tank. It will also house my remaining killifish female.

[kyle89]

A update on squirts tank. Led upgrade and plant growth

[helms97]

i like all of these tanks.. lol.. heres my new 29G tank. i just got it yesterday and have my betta in there. hes only there temporarily to help cycle it. i plan on getting pennywort and duckweed. maybe some type of carpet. anyways, here it is!