Re: ADA 60-P planted tank 'Prairie' (week 7)
Another productive day today. I got a delivery from aqua essentials. A razor for the glass, some shrimp food and a pot of HC. You can tell the new HC from the picture, as it is quite a different colour to what's already in the tank.
First up was a bit of glass cleaning. I've not been able to get right to the substrate until now and it makes a huge difference as you can imagine.
Then on to planting. I moved a few things around. Some pogostemon helferi was moved from hidden areas to fill out a couple of sections I thought could use it. I pulled up some HC and separated it out and replanted too. mostly removed from the front left which I'll be dealing with later.
I took Antipofish's idea of creating a pathway through the scape and moved some blyxa from the centre back to the front right. There was a bit of saggitaria there too, which I moved to centre left with the other sagg.
Originally I had planted a reineckii at the rear but it didn't sit right with me and need to go to help fit the pathway in. When I uprooted it it looked pretty good so is now just behind the intake, with the other.
The new HC from aqua essentials was split and used to spread the carpet to the back of the tank. There was plenty there so I used some to fill out other areas. I just hope the colour starts to match soon. It was quite tall too but I haven't trimmed it yet. I'll let it bed in a bit first.
Everything else got a trim where needed and then I spent a while picking bits of parvula out of the other plants. That stuff sticks to everything!
So, plant wise I'm almost done (that may be speaking too soon, I know). Just the front left section to go. My plan here is to plant quite dense quadricostatus. Thanks to Piece-of-Fish on here I have plenty of it, all really healthy looking.
In the morning, I'll split that up and get planting. At the moment it's all chained to the mother plant. I don't like to have just a random chiunk of one species though, so will find a couple of other spots to plant a few as well.
Picture time! Note the danios, who followed my hand round the tank as I worked. The widows all hid but I'm sure they will get used to e. They are less than shy when it's feeding time. Those guys go crazy for the micro pellets. I thought a couple of them were going to leap out of the tank to get them before they hit the water!
Thanks to Chris for the path idea and to piece-of-fish for the plants. Plus aqua essentials should get a thank you for speedy delivery and great looking plants.
Another productive day today. I got a delivery from aqua essentials. A razor for the glass, some shrimp food and a pot of HC. You can tell the new HC from the picture, as it is quite a different colour to what's already in the tank.
First up was a bit of glass cleaning. I've not been able to get right to the substrate until now and it makes a huge difference as you can imagine.
Then on to planting. I moved a few things around. Some pogostemon helferi was moved from hidden areas to fill out a couple of sections I thought could use it. I pulled up some HC and separated it out and replanted too. mostly removed from the front left which I'll be dealing with later.
I took Antipofish's idea of creating a pathway through the scape and moved some blyxa from the centre back to the front right. There was a bit of saggitaria there too, which I moved to centre left with the other sagg.
Originally I had planted a reineckii at the rear but it didn't sit right with me and need to go to help fit the pathway in. When I uprooted it it looked pretty good so is now just behind the intake, with the other.
The new HC from aqua essentials was split and used to spread the carpet to the back of the tank. There was plenty there so I used some to fill out other areas. I just hope the colour starts to match soon. It was quite tall too but I haven't trimmed it yet. I'll let it bed in a bit first.
Everything else got a trim where needed and then I spent a while picking bits of parvula out of the other plants. That stuff sticks to everything!
So, plant wise I'm almost done (that may be speaking too soon, I know). Just the front left section to go. My plan here is to plant quite dense quadricostatus. Thanks to Piece-of-Fish on here I have plenty of it, all really healthy looking.
In the morning, I'll split that up and get planting. At the moment it's all chained to the mother plant. I don't like to have just a random chiunk of one species though, so will find a couple of other spots to plant a few as well.
Picture time! Note the danios, who followed my hand round the tank as I worked. The widows all hid but I'm sure they will get used to e. They are less than shy when it's feeding time. Those guys go crazy for the micro pellets. I thought a couple of them were going to leap out of the tank to get them before they hit the water!
Thanks to Chris for the path idea and to piece-of-fish for the plants. Plus aqua essentials should get a thank you for speedy delivery and great looking plants.