My 5ft Tank Pics (took awhile to load)

[sadie]

Hi all,
this is my 5ft planted tank. Please feel free to comment. Thanks.

[budak]

is that a tiger lotus, or is it the swamp thing?

very unik! i like!!

How long did it take for the lily to develop?

[sherchoo]

Sadie,
You weren't kidding when you say your tank when you said it's juz tenellus and lotus only......

Very diciplined aquascaping...... to maintain only 2 spieces of plants.

[sadie]

hi budak,
thats a red lotus, till now still no flower yet.

[sadie]

hi sherchoo,
those tenellus do grow like mad,I've not seriously trim them yet.
Its true its easy to look after. cut down lots of effort but increase in viewing pleasure.

[Simon]

imo, too monotone... too much empty space, add some driftwood or mangrove root

[DEA]

i like it tho
a bit the zen feel without using the amano tricks
if you like it too no need to change please
i see those amano lookalike tanks until sian already, yours is a breath of fresh air

[learner]

may i ask what kind of lights are u using?
DIY?

[sadie]

hi, light system is PL-DIY.
each tray consists of 2PL.

[learner]

looks kinda cool to me...
what did u use? ( the metal part to hold everything together)
is that what they call rain gutters?

how much does each one cost u?

got an almost bare tank... don know what plants to add in leh...
don know how to go about designing...

[vinz]

Wow, very simple and definitely easy maintainance... It's nice, I like it. Though additional character can be added with some nice wood or rocks. Just my 2 cents... but overall, I still like it. It just visualised for me a scaping idea of mine but with very different plants.

[hwchoy]

sadie, it is strange your lotus is so big and bushy and yet it is not sending out floating leaves, or did you trim them off? they don't flower until they get floating leaves.

I got the same from hoppinghippo, and within days after planting it threw up lots of floating leaves and also a plantlet. But not yet flowering

[sadie]

hi learner,
its some kind of rain gutters that has shaped to hold the PL.
I dont have the actual cost of these cause I got them as second hand products when
I purchased the bulk (tank, light system etc) together.

hi hwchoy,
the lotus leaves will be trimed as soon as they have the potential becoming floating leaves. so i guess i will never have flowers from them.

[hwchoy]

I had a red tiger lotus (the thin leaf kind) flowering once I let the leaves float. Very nice dark pink flower with a yellow centre, about 4-5in across. Think you might try letting it float.

[juggler]

Interesting layout. Nice growth of plants!
Did the lotus grew from one single rhizome? Looks so leafy. Will you be propagating its plantlets round the tank?

[sadie]

hi juggler,
thanks,
the primary lotus doesn't grow from rhizome.
initially it survives from standalone plantlet, now it has quite a few plantlets
around it. i would be propagating cause they are getting rather huge.