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Firstly hi to all,

i have a 3ft tank i think about 120L, fluval 204 filter, black gravel, large red-brown rocks, several plants and the following fish:

4x Swordtails
9x Serpae Tetra
6x Zebra Danio
4x Kuhli Loach

I'd post a pic, but it doesn't apear i am able to

hmm let me try this...

sounds good. Welcome to Fishprofiles. Do you have any live plants? BTW, you have to be a premium member to post pics. You can still give a link to your pics

Welcome to FP. Looking forward to seeing your pictures.

Jim

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Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody. -- Mark Twain

yeah all my plants are live, but not sure what they are called
i think:

Ludwigia, Xmas tree, and some others i don't know names for.

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e22/ctk1/08022006024.jpg

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e22/ctk1/08022006023.jpg

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e22/ctk1/08022006026.jpg

please note these were taken from a mobile phone camera... so quality is not great, and water looks cloudy cause i had just added fert for plants .

Nice looking setup. How long have you had it running? BTW Welcome to the Fish Profiles.

The tank has been going for ages, but i had let it go completly, and had dirty water and only 4 live seprea tetras.

Since then i have bought the fluval canister filter, and thrown out the bad undersized sponge filter with powerhead. Then i did a massive gravel clean, changed 70% of water giving it a cleaner start, but keeping some of the aged water. bought a couple more rocks and several plants and some danios, more tetras, swordtails and kuhli's.

Now i have had the current planting running for a week, excluding the forefront planting and some of the other plants.

My goal is for that forfront planting to link up and create some ground cover, and some of the right hand corner plants to bush up and get some length.

Any suggestions welcomed.

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Keep it family friendly please, and not bypass the censor
~Babelfish

sorry babefish, didn't realise you couldn't use expletives with #$$%@$$%^^& symbols, wont happen again.

ctk1, that forground plant you have planted in bunches is called glossotigma (sp.?) also known as glosso. You shouldnt plant it in bunches, it wont grow well and definatley wont grow into a carpet if thats what you are trying to acheive...

May I suggest individualy planting each plantlet (3 leaves per plantlet). Also, this plant is high demanding meaning you should have atleast 2.5 WPG and constant co2 if you want this foreground plant to thrive and not grow straight up...

I really like the way your tank looks. As stated above, seperate you gloss. Also Welcome to FP =D

Thanks for the advice, i did seperate it but obviously not enough. it isn't doing to well at the moment, but i have ordered a new globe (a Powerglo). I did ask the LFS of its light requirements etc they said it was a low level light, and no co2.

I have i think 30galon tank and a 30 watt light, so 1wpg.

LFS people 90% of the time will tell you the wrong advice just so you'll buy there item. Glosso is one of the highest light and co2 demanding aquatic plants out there, I find it sad that the LFS would tell you the complete opposite...

Good luck though!