My 2ft Planted tank

okey,

after i got my new plants from Khalid (Thanks Dude),

this is how my tank is looking now, will still sort of some of the plants, as some needs to go into my 3Ft (once i can get rid of all those snails in my tank).

how does it look?





Vez

 

a pic of the small little dudes in this tank.

 

then i played around with this one pump, and the air pump, and got this "Jet", and the fish love it, and on the one site, they said, plants and moss like water flowing over them, and it needs to be rich with oxygen.

 

then one pic of the moss

 

looking good so far man!

 

Is that big bunch of green stuff not a bit overwhelming? Suppose it is necessary if you have fry in the tank.

 

haha, jip, thats why i said, some of the plants will be going into the 3ft...

 

the bunch of green stuff floating is hornwort.. It looks really nice if you plant it , or just use a peace of rock to keep a peace under the water.. It also tends to grow like a bush when you do this.. I have got some in my tank , and i have to say , it looks better than youd think..
Regards

 

thanks skaapietjie

still need to do that, and some will be planted, and the rest will end up in my 3ft,

i really love the llok of that plant, and this even more

 

Just be warned , hornwart grows incredibly fast , so you nood to trim it often , i usually take the peaces i cut off and plant them again.. Post some more pics when you are done , id really like to see..
regards

 

Thanks skaapietjie,

i did a small test, i got a small piece a week ago, planted it, in marked it on the side of the tank, and diff last night is almost 2cm.......

 

looking great dude

if you borrow a clown loach from a friend, he'd take care of those snails for you in no time

what i normally do is soak all plants in a (unscented) bleach solution for 10 minutes, then rinse thoroughly befor adding to tank..

 

thanks dude

i want to get one, a real snail killer, haha

why do you do that with your plants?

Vez

 

Looking nice @Vez

You mean CO2? Not oxygen?

I see you using the moss/mesh technique. You should get some rocks, wrap them in moss. Then wrap that mesh over the rock, creates a really bushy rock design.

 

kills the snails and any eggs before they get into the tank

 

mmmmm, will do so, once the moss is long,

the guy i got the moss from, said to keep them in the mesh till i need to trim it,,

but thats the plan, want to wrap some on my new driftwood, and on some rocks, almost time to trim the moss, so i really cant wait to start with the moss

oh ja, sorry about the oxygen, jip, should be CO2,

 

please tell me more? what do you use?

 

you welcome

oops.. forgot to tell you to rinse them off before you place them in your tank

 

haha, no thats fine, the few that was on the plants i got from you is fine, i mean the ones in my 3ft, i have almost 60-80 small apple snails, that need a new home, or that will be lunch for some other fish......

 

well, i was ignorant about snails and snail eggs, so i never suspected that adding plants to my tank would also cause a snail explosion..

so i tried using a skunk loach. worked like a bomb. problem was he also decimated my white cloud population in a week.

i have since learnt that clown loaches are equally good at killing snails, but not as aggressive as skunk loaches toward other fish, but these days however, i just soak the plants in REGULAR, UNSCENTED HOUSEHOLD BLEACH. this gets to the snails and eggs.

no more snail problems

the problem with snails is that (besides golden apple / mystery snails) they breed even if there is just one in the tank, and you can end up with hundreds of snails all over your tank if you allow them to get in there in the first place, just removing the snails is not enough as they tend to lay their eggs in the substrate and even hide themselves in there... its a real mission to get them out and besides breaking down the tank and rinsing everything in there in a bleach water solution and re-starting, the best bet is to leave a few clown loaches in there for a few weeks.