My 2 ft Planted Tank

[Nic73]

Pictures are taken Friday morning. It's a 2ft planted tank, using Atman CF600 cannister filter with surface skimmer and CO2.
Plants: Riccia, Spiky Moss and Nana. (The riccia and moss morph to a dunno what kind of new plant, I call it MossCia, hahaha)
Full view:

Under the bridge got some CRS and many Sakuras, just found many shrimplets today.

This plant is Riccia and Spiky Moss mutant. Morph to become funny looking bushes. Riccia light green, moss dark green, this plant's colour is a mixture.

My Nana plant on a coconut husk with my favourite huge red-line torpedo

Another shot

Comments welcome.

[Scape]

Hi, nice growth of ur riccia =D. How old is this tank?

[Nic73]

Hi, nice growth of ur riccia =D. How old is this tank?

At least 3 years old....went thru many, MaNy, MANY changes From normal fresh water to planted and the landscape changed numerous time

[Fingerling]

Good job, a three year old tank?are the moss and riccia new? or did you just trimmed them? Do give your red-line torpedo barb a bigger setup soon.

[Nic73]

Good job, a three year old tank?are the moss and riccia new? or did you just trimmed them? Do give your red-line torpedo barb a bigger setup soon.

The riccia and moss are few months old.....the riccia always overgrow so I tied them with green net abt a month ago.....part of them had grown out of the gree netting creating a carpet look....now must trim occasionally to maintain it....

The red-line torpedo is a FOC fish from a group purchase....bo pian....my next bigger tank (4ft and 6ft) are community tanks with Aros in them....cannot put this fellow in lah

[Cloud-Strife]

wah kao ~! first time see using riccia as carpet. how do plant it? cool man.

[Nic73]

wah kao ~! first time see using riccia as carpet. how do plant it? cool man.

Tks br....first, use a bigger green netting and squeeze all the riccia in....then use a fine green netting to wrap it and tie with black string....next, just wait and let it grow

[Cloud-Strife]

Do you use anything heavy object to pull the nettings down?
Do you encounter riccia floats everything up ?

[Nic73]

Do you use anything heavy object to pull the nettings down?
Do you encounter riccia floats everything up ?

I used to have iccia floating all over the place previously but not for now, after I use the method I mentioned....first stuff them into bigger green netting frames then re-wrap with finer green netting.....now settled nicely.....if it overgrown, just trim....this is a must lor

Anyway, just to update, I had removed most fishes from my tank to concentrate on shrimps.....after removing hor, all the shrimps come out to play....they happy, I also happy

[Cloud-Strife]

So cool ....

Anyway, if you want to make your aquarium more balance with fish + shrimps, you may consider to keep a school of galaxy rasboras. they are very small so they dont have the tendency to gobble up your shrimps and shrimplets.