Hi, all your tank are great you must have a great time enjoying watching it at home I like the last tank may I know where you purchase the black plastic grid and how much. Amazing that you actually use garden horti soil with sand on top do you add any fertilizer or roots tab below will the water be dirty any advise thank.
Haven't posted here in some time it seems. Working on a new small 9 gallon tank
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Some of the hardscape work:
Your tanks are amazing!
Really clean tank.. amazing growth.. how do you tackle Bba?
Nice
Impressive!
Sorry Dennis, didn't know that xiaozhuang was your ID both on this forum and on planted tanks.
Thank you for making several insightful videos on youtube. I've learnt alot of new stuff from them. Appreciate the contributions.
Impressive scape! Thanks for sharing the video!
wow din realise this thread is 3 years old
glad that your hobby as well as tank is still growing strong
Awesome scape and super healthy plants! This thread has ever fail to amaze me over and over again! Got a question regarding densely packed stem plants. How are your bottom halves of your densely packed stem plants doing? It seems that yours are doing just fine. Mine are always rotting away at the bottom halves... and when that happened, I have to re-do my tank. I'm always wondering is it due to nutrient deficiency in the water column or due to the lack of light reaching the bottom halves?
Dennis has a youtube vid on this. Basically, you start "moulding" the stems plants to the shape that you want (may take a few months, depending on how fast your plants grow), of which we usually take photos and trimm and replant the tops. The scape don't last "forever" and you will need to restart.
If you go to east ocean, Ryan also has a 2FT tank near the entrance with Rotala H'ra Vietnam. If you look at them closely, you will noticed that the lower stems are all blackish green and they have shed their leaves, but they do not rot and die. I've kept H'ra, indica and roundifolio and seems rotala does not rot away like most other plants (ludwigia SP red as an example). They still have a strong root system.
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Thanks for the link! great video and very insightful! Yes they do turn blackish and looks "bad". Ny worst case was hemianthus micranthemoides, basically the bottom were totally melted away, but on the front you could only see a very healthy dense bunch hahaha... held together by interlocking each other...
It also depends on how dense you plant it - the bottoms/start planting should give space to each plant; for rotala rotundifolia, the spacing between each stem should be at least 1 cm, if not half an inch. Rotala rotundifolia can take many trimming cycles; i.e. I usually only replant them once every 6 months or so. A lot also depends on growth conditions; CO2/light/nutrients. If conditions are not optimal, plants will sacrifice their lower leafs for top growth more quickly, repurposing mobile nutrient from old growth for new growth.
Been moving the Brownie ghost buceps between a few tanks. It seems that while Buceps seem to favor slightly harder water, having very low alkalinity (<2dkh) & acidic pH is alright as long as potassium, CO2 levels are kept up. Moving this batch from a 9dKH tank to a 1dKH tank didn't induce melting
Been growing out proserpinaca palustris as well, haven't kept this in some time
Also, propagated the red erio, Eriocaulon quinguangular, quite a bit over the year. They grow at good speed with rich substrate
What lights are you using for these? The reds are amazing..!
i also see some UG growing nicely, any secrets to grow UG?
This "farm tank" is under T5s; with a mix of Gieseman and dennerle T5 tubes ( available at FB, and AA)
It's mainly the tissue culture UG that give people issues, cos it's more sensitive than usual. One way is to buy matured patch from shop/hobbyist. UG is generally sensitive to ammonia and uncycled tanks, so never plant it in a fresh setup, especially fresh aquasoil. After the cycling period, it works like any other plant. It grows quite aggressively though, and will tangle around hardscape, mosses, etc... it doesn't require a substrate to grow. For converting new plants, maybe easier to grow it floating / on wire mesh before attaching it to substrate.
Heh, this is a 3ft tank. Probably gonna be my main farm tank while I aquascape the others
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