My New 270L

very very nice!

what plants dit you plant?

 

Thanks guys!

Well for the moment, Vallis and Glosso, or at least I think its Glosso, lol

 

haha oh okay.

are you sorted with lights?

 

Yup, thanks, i got some for the interim, I'll get some proper tubes in February

 

Looking great buddy, will come grade your work on the weekend

 

Okay since I dont have enough light in the display tank yet and the fact that I planted the Glosso incorrectly, I decided to rip it out and make a little growout/recovery tank for the Glosso.

So first I cleaned all the plantlets and straightened out all the roots, after this I cut the bunch into individual plants


Slowly getting there


After a few hours I ended up with this.




this batch was planted underwater, but with VERY little water. I planted another batch fully immersed, but didn't take pics of that. So Hopefully I'll get some results from either of the two batches

 

what did you use as substrate?

nice dude!

 

Well in the underwater one, riversand and in the immersed one, potting soil

thanks man

 

looking good dude, unfortunately that isn't glosso it's Marsilea minuta. Still an awesome carpet plant and it carpets under low light conditions.

 

Thanks man, seems you were right, got some real glosso now. Pics to follow

 

Okay, so I finally got my arse into gear and cleaned the tank up a bit.
Also spruced up the lighting a bit. Running two 30w T8s at the moment, 1x 7500k and 1x 10000k Sylvania

Will up the lighting as soon as I start dosing the water column

Livestock:
1x SAE
10x White Clouds

Flora:
Glossostigma Elatinoides(Glosso)
Hemianthus Micranthemoides(HM)
Rotala Rotundifolia
Vallisneria americana
Heteranthera zosterifolia(Stargrass)

This is what it looks like now:



Still murky, but this was just after the waterchange

From left to right:







And lastly a shot from far




Now just to wait for them to grow out a little :bigsmile:

 

Looking good bud,those white clouds look awesome under those lights

 

Thanks man! I'll try and get some proper pics of them soon, they're really quick!

I'm just really happy that the SAE is eating again, quite a lot at that.

 

Just really keen to get my filtration sorted as I'm doing 10% water changes every second day.

 

Very nice bud!

what are you gonna use for filtration?

 

I was thinking of a few nice and big HOBs, I'm cured of canister filters

 

Tank looking good, would however remove the elastic from the drift wood and use cotton to tie the moss down,,horror stories about elastics breaking and fishing eating it.

 

Noted, I'll make a plan tonight! How long does flame moss take to tie itself to the wood though?

 

Interested to see some updated pics