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Ok guys, I just changed my 10 gallon to Eco Complete and I'll be putting CO2 in via the DIY way. I currently have the two screw in flourescent bulbs (for aquariums, not just room lights) that are 11 watts each.

Is this going to be enough for high light plants. Nothing EXTREMELY high light, like glosso and micro sword. But I would like good plants in there.

Here is a little plan I drew out to give a general idea of what i want. I want cobamba in the back left, either jungle val or chilensis in the back right, some dwarf hairgrass around the front base of the log, and an ozelot sword off to the right.

Any ideas would be great. Thanks.

Racso attached this image:

Opps, I forgot to say that the top picture is looking down into the tank and the bottom picture would be looking straight into the tank...

just clarifying.

Ok, so I'm not the greatest with microsoft paint

Anyway, i don't know if any just didn't get it but, here are my questions:

is 20 to 22 watts enough for my general idea?
How about with my plants that I choose?
Anything I should add or take out?
Anything I should move?

I'm thinking I should have put this in planted...

Hi,
The tank looks impressive. That's alot of plants, and
in a 10G tank, it is so shallow that 22watts will seem
more like 40 watts.

Once planted, and the plants begin to grow, you are going
to spend some time, every week, prunning it. Keep the
stocking low to normal. Keep the lights on for 10 hrs/day.

Also, I think you chose the right forum to place the post.
It is Aquascaping.

Frank


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The sword is too large for a ten gallon: I'd replace it with something smaller, such as a dwarf wendtii. Vals also tend to do rather poorly in shallow tanks. Balanse, giant hairgrass, or java fern would do fine over it.

Hi,

I just discovered, well not discovered as so but I just got a pot of two new species for me that I'm just loving to grow. one is Limnophila sessiliflora, which looks a lot like cabomba but a really great green, really bright. It's a fast grower and really hardy, in high light it will get all bushy and great looking. The other is Hygrophilia polysperma 'Rosanervig' it's a gorgeous looking plant, the leaves are really nice shaped and have pink nervatures, the tops are a really bright green, also very hardy and fast growing.

Maybe you can mix cabomba with the Linmophilia for a change of color and texture, and use the other to give a little contrast and color, if you are going for valls, in that size of thank go for corkscrew valls they are are smaller in size and with that light you should get really great spirals out of the leaves.

The ocelot sword will get to big for that tank and will take over, they aren't stunned by either space or tank size so it will end up competing with the other plants for space and light, and the others don't stand a chance, instead you can use a tiger lotus or a red lotus that if you keep trimmed will have the same effect in the front of your tank.

Just some suggestions I hope they come handy, keep us posted

Ok, I'll still get an ozelot sword, and I'll just leave it in there until it gets too big for the tank and then I'll move it to another tank. I really like them. Then I might go with some type of red crypt. The reason I want an Ozelot is because of its small size whenever I see them for sale (tallest leaf is about 4 inches high and about 5 inches at the widest) and for some red in there for color.

Also, for the back of the tank I'm leaning toward chilensis since my store has a couple GREAT looking ones.

Falstaf, thanks for those suggestions, but the problem is finding them. I can see if I can get some ordered at my store, or I'll just look around.

And Frank, yes I know I'll have a lot of pruning to do Thanks for the advice.

~Jorge

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