Arowana tank...Plants

**lsz** · 16th May 2002, 10:38

Hello plant kings!! Plant Idiot has a question :

i will be doing a setup for arowana.

The plants i will use are Java fern, nana and also java moss. The lights i should be using are 2x36W PL and 2x30W pink FL (4x2x2 tank)

I chose these plants coz i dont want to have fertiliser layer in this tank and also i will be using pea gravel (at least 3mm) and i want to minimise lighting also.
Of coz won't have CO2.

Can work ?

**Simon** · 16th May 2002, 11:03

lsz, try echinodorus.. use the conventional gravel we r using.. u need substrate though.. but co2 is optional

**lsz** · 16th May 2002, 11:15

thought they need heavy fertilisation ?

**kelstorm** · 16th May 2002, 11:29

LSZ, go for those plants that we saw at Pet Safari... dun recall seeing any fert on those plants.[

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**lsz** · 16th May 2002, 11:35

pet safari aro in the planted tank quite poor thing

no space to swim already

**Simon** · 16th May 2002, 11:36

lsz, they r low maintenance plant.. all they need is a thick base fert.. they r oso hardy enuff for arrowana

**lsz** · 16th May 2002, 11:44

ok thanks simon

how abt hairgrass?

**nizz** · 16th May 2002, 11:49

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On 5/16/2002 11:44:24 AM

ok thanks simon

how abt hairgrass?

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Hi LSZ

Hairgrass wld need lotsa light (&gt;3w per G i believe) &amp; CO2 as well...otherwise, it'd rot. An alternative foreground plant u might wanna try wld be echinodorus tennellus. Growth of course will be very slow.

Nizz

**kelstorm** · 16th May 2002, 12:05

aiyoh.. LSZ, remember i told u just do up the backdrop and the ground only?? dun have a thick lump of grass there.. [

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**Simon** · 16th May 2002, 12:08

yup, suggest u go for all echinodorus, cryptos, anubias, fern.. but i prefer all echinodorus..

HG like what nizz point out require more light and c02...

lsz, what u oso need to consider is yr algae eaters, like what i suggest to vinz, setup yr planted tank first b4 introducing the fish... at least at this point, the plants r adapted and growing in yr tank and the foreground plants can give cover to yr algae eaters

**kelstorm** · 16th May 2002, 12:18

Simon.. i think those SAE can swim much faster than what those aros and let alone eat them...[

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**Simon** · 16th May 2002, 12:26

hahahaaa.. SAE r sometimes lazy and can always be caught off guard.. i think u mistaken them, the ones in pet safari is the typical flying fox, faster than any SAE

**kelstorm** · 16th May 2002, 12:29

alternatively, according to LSZ, u can feed them pellets from young to train them.. LSZ... i begining to like the idea of keeping aro planted tank.. no thanks to u and my fiancee!!!!... urgh.. hehehe.. i only like violet fusion leh.. hehehe.. yes, i know.. ex.. but so far, it is the nicest that i seen...[

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**nizz** · 16th May 2002, 12:47

LSZ

Just some suggestion...

Background: Crypt Balansae, Aponogeton Crispus, E. Bleheri

Mid/Fore: Low-level echis like gruner leopards, e. chord 'harbich', e. parv 'tropica', e. tenellus, crypt. wendtii, crypt. petchii, crypt. x willisii

Nizz

**BFG** · 16th May 2002, 13:27

Guys, have u noticed that some of the aro tanks in PetSafari especially the Violet Fusion has an orange ball the size of a ping pong ball floating in the tank. I speculate that when the light of the tanks is switch on, the light rays hitting the balls will reflect and project an orange/reddish tinge that will reflect or bring out or heighten the colors of the aros especially the Violet Fusion. Or maybe I'm wrong but what's the ball doing in the tank?

**vinz** · 16th May 2002, 13:52

BFG, the bright coloured ping pong ball is to make the aro look up instead of down. If the aro keeps looking down, it eventually develop something call drop eye, where its eye hangs downwards.

Simon, I think the fishes in Pet Safari Planted tank are SAEs.

Hmmm... seems like more ppl are going for planted aro tanks... [

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