Marine planted tank

[Plantbrain]

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So I've been up to no good.

Hopefully this will raise awareness in this genre.

Enjoy and it should give a few folks something to think about.
I'm going to see what Amano will do when I enter this in the ADA competition.

I may add a number of blood shrimp and perhaps a different fish or two.
If you have never seen blood shrimp, well, they are seriously red and good sized.

Regards,
Tom Barr

[sherchoo]

Tom,
Great idea! Wish I could see the Amano's face upon seing your marine planted tank entry. What a waste..... all the best to you.

[BFG]

those plants are mainly used in a refugium right?

[Plantbrain]

No, I think that's like using aquatics for filtration in an external filter only.

Who does that?

You can grow these plants without a main tank as a source of dosing nutrients etc.

But you need to take care of the plant's needs.

I suppose I could call it an "extreme brackish tank".
No, I just wonder why Amano has not done this before.
He's done some marine tanks.

It's got plants in the tank so it should fall under the guildlines as a planted tank.

Purist want to piss and moan, but in reality it will only help both genres and open up new doors.

Now I do not have a bunch of corals etc adding to the tank, I think that is more a coral reef tank submission, plant tanks need to have some degree of plants as their main theme.

There is not one coral, sponge, hyroid etc in this tank and it's wall to wall plants.

And if it's so easy, let the purist try one out and see.
The proof is in the pudding.

Ya all know, I have to produce a nice tank every so often otherwise no one believes you are any good

Regards,
Tom Barr

[Fei Miao]

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Ya all know, I have to produce a nice tank every so often otherwise no one believes you are any good

Regards,
Tom Barr

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Tom--
No wonder you've been so quite![]
Really thought provoking tank[:]

I would love to see this tank make it to the top 10 tanks in ADA 2004[] [] []

[Plantbrain]

Well,
I did not like Amano's Marine tank/s so I thought I'd show him the "American style of Marine planted tanks"

Finally someone has one up one the German and Japanese in design/tank concept.

No, these are not really refugium plants, many reef keepers use Caulerpa or Chaetomorpha(better) for filtration/Tang food in their tanks but it's not for looks/design etc.

I know of no one using the species I have in there for "filtration" really, there are a couple of species that I have that are being used but there is 40 other species there that hardly anyone has ever seen, let alone used in an aquascape.

I think perhaps the nicest thing is that now you have conquerned one area of the hobby, you have somewhere else to try your Green thumb out.

But few places offer the species(Much like FW plants 10-20 years ago).

BTW, all the 40+ ssp of plants are from the same region, so it is a pure biotope, rocks, gravel/mud even are from here.

I will do a cold water Marine planted tank in a year or two.

Regards,
Tom Barr

[budak]

The well-illustrated Chek Jawa (Singapore mudflats off Ubin island) guide book has some pages on marine flowering plants found along the coasts..... some look like vals, others like crypts....

[Plantbrain]

Seagrasses.
These are nice.

We have roughly 6 or so species here.
But you have the right idea, get out and collect what you have nearby, you are not too far from the coast and the sea.

95% of the tank is macro algae though.

Regards,
Tom Barr