Re: My first real planted tank - juwel rio 125 - Ark
I have been busy at my brothers house all weekend because a fued between my mum and virgin media has caused them to cut off our broadband so i wont have internet for a few weeks..
since the last post dramatic changes have happened..
i got a bunch of free plants(cuttings actually) and ive had them in for about 5 or 6 days now
i recieved alot of hygrophila corymbosa and polysperma mainly from keith and i think ulster exile not sure
also got some heterantha zosterfolia, ludwigia arcuata ( which i doubt will survive because it needs high light ) echinodorus tennelus and a cryptocoryne undulata red
im waiting on some more tennelus for the foreground from garuf..
also during midweek all my harlequins died and im suspecing it was because i had just installed the co2 kit and i was slowly increasing the co2 levels and i didnt monitor it enough until it became to high and they couldnt handle it.
so now in this tank i have had 6 serpae tetras to suicide and accidently commited homocide towards 14 harlequin rasboras now iam not gettin anymore fish until the tank has grown in and i get a drop checker to monitor co2 levels..
here is some pics of the tank in it current state -
full tank shot -
ludwigia arcuata
hygophila stems that i removed the leaves - the leaves alone filled a sainsburys carrier bag full
Amoazon sword and crypt petchiin the right hand corner of the tank
Echinodorus tennelus and crypt petchii foreground yet to spread out \
for fish ill probably get some rainbow fish and definately not before christmas...\\
i need some aquascaping ideas as i think it looks a bit odd..
critism strongly advised..
Ark