My first true planted trial

[MrPCB]

Hi all, Here's my planted tank starting to mature...







15 gal 60W
Please comment at will...

Cheers from Portugal,
Pedro

[aizaspurz]

Looking good Pedro. Good job!

[geoffrey]

It's a beautiful tank. I like it very much.

[juggler]

Picture perfect! wow!

BTW - how about stating the plant list?

[robin]

Looks like some algae on the foreground plants, but overall, very beautiful. nice colors and contrast.

Robin

[Slan]

Very nice tank.
Nice colours.
Perfect pictures. cropping and such.

To the constructive critics.

maybe some more hairgrass to fill upp the void between bottom plants and steam plants.
Some very green plants to add to the "freshness" of the tank.
maybe some nice stone formation center/right would give you a central point.

Hide the equipment when taking pictures, or put them on the left side where there arer higher plants to cover them.

Nice overall other then that.
Congrats to the sucess of your tank.
Greetings Simon.

[loupgarou]

*envy*

[MrPCB]

Hi all, thanks for your kind remarks and critics.
It's true the Glosso has some green-spot algae, but that is becoming less with time so I'm not worried. The tank has not fully matured yet, it's 3-4 months old, and some of the plants are rather recent <1 month so there's still room for establishment.

Here's the plant list:

Lysimachia nummularia "Aurea"
Hetenantera zosterifolia
Eleocharis sp.
Hygrophyla corymbosa "Compact"
Echinodorus x ozelot "Red"
Ludwigia arcuata
Micranthemum umbrosum
Sagittaria sp.
Cryptocoryne balansae
Glossostigma elatinoides

Cheers,
Pedro

[apollo]

You just killed my hobby! Been planting for 2 yrs odd already and still cant get close to your 1st trial!!

Hahaha..

Stephen

[MrPCB]

Hi... sorry to hear that.
I've been planting for 2-3 years also, but not on a tank directed to plant aquascaping. This kind of stuff was also a mirage to me... only when I got REAL light I was able to achieve this effect. Perhaps you're also just one spec. away from success, keep it up.

Cheers,
Pedro

[CT]

nice tank! nice mix of colours.