Didiplis Diandra might be too big for such small tank. You can but it will make your tank look smaller. Why don't you try smaller leaf stem plant like rotala sp "mini". It leaf is half the size of MM/HM
I'm setting up a 25cm cube nano sometime in the near future. it will have Gex soil as its substrate, 13W PL light and EI fert dosing with Excel as a carbon source.
I'm thinking of using Japanese Hairgrass as the foreground lawn with 1-2 pieces of downoi as highlights and MM as a midground plant to fill up space between hardscape rocks. I was thinking of using Didlipis Diandra as one of the background stem plants, and i think having 1 more other background stem cluster would make the tank look nicer. does anyone have recommendation for a stem plant that might suit my purposes?
i'd also greatly appreciate it if anyone can visualize the scape i'm planning and give feedback/comments on it.
Didiplis Diandra might be too big for such small tank. You can but it will make your tank look smaller. Why don't you try smaller leaf stem plant like rotala sp "mini". It leaf is half the size of MM/HM
thanks for the recommendation Robert do you have any pictures of this plant? i've only managed to find some not very complimentary pictures of it via google, and so far it seems more like a replacement midground for MM than a nice bushy background
i guess you're right that didiplis diandra might look too big as it has quite a large overall diameter. but that's the kind of look i was looking for i guess, thin long leaves around the stem as i've read that thin leaves make the tank look bigger
you can try Potamogeton gayi.
Chee Yong
Try ludwigia Arcuata
ludwiga arcuata looks good. thanks!
No probs.. its one of my favourites... wasn't on the market for quite some time but i think recently.. it has re-appeared again.. easy plant to control and "scape" to your desired shape..
Last edited by Shadow; 3rd Oct 2007 at 10:24.
I am using Didiplis Diandra for my 1ft cube as background. It looks pretty good but DD requires high lighting to develop that nice tinge of red. Vallisneria Americana" mini twister" is also good for a nano background, small, slender and short enough for nano.
Nice tank you have there, Robert. Is that your low tech tank?
Cheers,
U.K.Lau
that's a nice picture Robert, i think that plant would be awesome as a highlight plant in the back or mid ground
would blyxa japonica work? it has narrow leaves so might make the tank look bigger
or rotala wallichii?
the R. wallichii has really thin leaves.. but it is also a fast grower..
if you're going for low-tech then i am assuming that you don't want to be trimming here and there most of the time.
Blyxa japonica would work in a low tech... but it will somehow look different from ones in a high-tech tank.. you dont think the plant as a whole will look too big?
yeah after going down to look at my 4ft again, blyxa indeed is too big the idea just occurred to me as my blyxa was having self detaching plantlets than rooted themselves in my foreground lawn...so figured i could just take them for free.
trimming wise i don't mind if it's just snipping off the tops i guess, that's why i opt for stem plants...every week or so cut away 1/2 to 3/4 the plant takes me just 5mins in such a small cube.
would the R. wallichii work in a "mid-tech" setup?
it works anywhere..haha.. it grows so fast... just that perhaps in a low tech.. it may not be so "compact"
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