Memento to my 2ft adventure

[ConcaveLiNkiN]

Just another update on the progress of my tank. Did quite abit of touch-ups over the weekend:

prepared my 2nd batch of Riccia as I feel my foreground pretty empty, and it would take awhile for my Riccia to grow to cover and make a carpet of it

ran out of riccia stones and used wire mess instead. Hope they will grow quickly and cover up the ugly foreground.

Understood that my HM are planted wrongly and at the same time shaded by my Hornwort. I removed all my HM and Hornwort and repositioned them STALK BY STALK (super back breaking):


subsequently, after repositioning, Rotala were also re-located (alos stalk by stalk, I realise that alot of plants do not like being lumped together):


Finally, Day 15 of my Tank:

[felix_fx2]

You mean buy more mesh and tie the riccia growing out is it?

actually after some time, i hope you already noticed hortworts is floating plant. (That or someone mentioned but i don't recall.)

[ConcaveLiNkiN]

You mean buy more mesh and tie the riccia growing out is it?

actually after some time, i hope you already noticed hortworts is floating plant. (That or someone mentioned but i don't recall.)

I bought more riccia when i pass by NSA to tie them onto some left-over mesh to try cover-up my foreground.

You are right, hortworts are floating plants, I notice some of them were left dangling among the rest of the plants but they continued to grow for many days. Planting them into the substrate just make them more tidy and not float around the tank. And I feel they make good background, curtain plants.

[ConcaveLiNkiN]

Day 19:

my first trim for my Tank:

before trim:


after trim:


re-located the egeria densa:


and guess what, they started to pearl:
http://youtu.be/M2G7pN2qFPQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2G7pN2qFPQ

I guess the previous position together with Lindernia rotundifolia Variegated did not work well, all the light been covered by them. My Lindernia rotundifolia Variegated grew really great, getting denser by the day.

[ConcaveLiNkiN]

Woah! After the trim, my 2ft is pearling like nobody's business. I love it! Been staring at my tank for the pass 30min. Oh no, here comes me wifey...


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[felix_fx2]

Woah! After the trim, my 2ft is pearling like nobody's business. I love it! Been staring at my tank for the pass 30min. Oh no, here comes me wifey...
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The plant is pearling due to the cut is it?
staring at green stuff is good for eyes....

[ConcaveLiNkiN]

The plant is pearling due to the cut is it?
staring at green stuff is good for eyes....

Yes sir. More pearling due to the trim. Before the trim moderate pearling form a few of the plants


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[ConcaveLiNkiN]

Day 24:

[David]

Uncle...one thing I can say is that you grow moss really well...moss in my hands will be dead within a month...somehow moss has never agreed with me since day 1.

[ConcaveLiNkiN]

Uncle...one thing I can say is that you grow moss really well...moss in my hands will be dead within a month...somehow moss has never agreed with me since day 1.

Haha... I was actually pretty surprise how my Java and Christmas Moss grew. So far, I have been only dosing Brighty K every single day. This weekend onwards, I will dose the rest of P, N and Fe. Hopefully, the rest of the plants will improve too. Ammonia level in my tank is still pretty high, so still not suitable to have the main faura added.

[David]

Brightly K as in the ADA? Heard it's pretty good but have not tried it personally.

Seriously ...Moss and Fern are supposedly easy plants...to me they are the hardest plants ...HAHAHAHAA

[ConcaveLiNkiN]

Yes sir, ADA expensive for a reason I guess. It is pretty effective/

[David]

Uncle!!!!.....Is there a reason why you keep your white bowling ball so white?....hahahaha....I look at your tank picture and the first thing that still grabs my attention is your white bowling ball.....hahahaha!!!!!

[felix_fx2]

riccia everywhere liao lol..

[ConcaveLiNkiN]

Uncle!!!!.....Is there a reason why you keep your white bowling ball so white?....hahahaha....I look at your tank picture and the first thing that still grabs my attention is your white bowling ball.....hahahaha!!!!!

Aiya... I thought some algae might turn it a little greenish. *touch wood, touch wood* but seems my Amano shrimp, SAE and oto are working so hard in my tank. Now I can only hope my Christmas moss will grow faster to cover the rest of my rock.


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[ConcaveLiNkiN]

riccia everywhere liao lol..

Yes sir, the ricin took awhile to acclimatise before it started to really grow. Hopefully it will cover my foreground in no time.


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[ConcaveLiNkiN]

Aiya... I thought some algae might turn it a little greenish. *touch wood, touch wood* but seems my Amano shrimp, SAE and oto are working so hard in my tank. Now I can only hope my Christmas moss will grow faster to cover the rest of my rock.


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You see, this oto never stop working:

http://youtu.be/hm7ME-HO5a0


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[felix_fx2]

Yes sir, the ricin took awhile to acclimatise before it started to really grow. Hopefully it will cover my foreground in no time.


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it won't cover completely on it's own, it's a floating plant by nature.
for the lot of us who keep moss, it finds it's way inside the moss and become a very scary eye sore...like zombies.. can never get rid of it completely.

[ConcaveLiNkiN]

it won't cover completely on it's own, it's a floating plant by nature.
for the lot of us who keep moss, it finds it's way inside the moss and become a very scary eye sore...like zombies.. can never get rid of it completely.

Hmmm... In that case, I will need to rearrange them in such a way that it will blend nicely with my hairgrass. There must be a way, in the meantime, I shall let it grow denser first.


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Riccia growing everywhere with pearling: