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Here are som bad photos of my tank just to get an idea of how it is lately. The rotala and some plants are leaning because I left the tank light off all day and they were going toward the next tank over. The red things on the tank floor are bloodworms- just fed fish. And obviously I have a ton of MTS which bothers me.

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Right side

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What is the plant with all the roots on the right shot which is growing right up to the surface?
Nice tank pics.

nice tank
how big is it??

33 gallon 7 neon tetras-5 platys-3 bleeding heart tetras-2 corys-1 rainbow shark-2 L83 gibby plecos

Bren- The plant is pennywort. I love this plant it grows so fast and easy.

platy boy- 55 gallon.

I like it, lovely plants.

What's the lighting? Seems many of your plants are low-light ones such as Anubias, so I'm just curious. I'm trying to get into planting right now, and with all my new plants I'm hoping in two weeks they're still all alive, lol.

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Ryan ...Really nice scaping ...like the hardscape and the gap in the middle ..good selection of plants as well . Dark substrate also looks good ...which is saying something as I don't generally like the darker ones .

Well done mate ...looks fantastic .


Garry

Shingami-

My lighting is a 130 watt coralife fixture. I like it alot.

Garry-

Thanks for the compliment. However, soon the scape will be changing up a little. I am going to add another larger peice of DW in the left side just like the right. And I am going to fill in the gap with some sort of foreground ground cover.

Great tank Punk......it's come a long way!

Your intended improvements sound like good ideas to help the scape develop further. Right now it looks almost like two separate scapes in the same tank, and bringing it all together will be great. Also I'm not sure about the imposing pennywort leaning off to the right; perhaps rather have it start from the right side and flow towards the center. But then again it's your tank so you can do what you want. I'm no Amano so it's not like my opinions on scape matter any more than yours do.

Looks like I won't be able to get plants like yours without getting a new fixture, lol. The combined wattage on my 125 gallon is only 120 watts, which is close but not even as much as yours, on a tank that's over twice as large.

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The aquarist is one who must learn the ways of the biologist, the chemist, and the veterinarian.