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Right Hand side...Notice the new section of ludwiga in the right back corner.

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Left side of tank...

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Heres the star of the show...

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His friend the rineloricaria...

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And some local fauna...

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Red, those plants are looking great! Those Ambulia are looking so lush & full after you planted the tops of them! I do see the holes in the Alternatheras. I hope they recover for you, as I know you like them.

Your tank changes so much. I'll be glad when it finally gets settled to where you are happy with it.
I'm also happy to see Mr. Haplos is hanging in there for you. I know you're especially attached to him.

Well, I'll await more pics later & see how your tank has changed again I wish you the best of luck with it.

James , Nice job , should grow in very well for you .
Garry

James

I am glad the ambulia is doing better. I do agree that replanting the tops has made a difference in the look of the tank. Good job

Shane

Thanks for your input as always, Shane
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Hello Good Friends,

Thanks for your nice comments on the tank, always greatly appreciated.

Heres another photo session of the tank and its inhabitants. Yes Patty, more changes happened, but only minute ones...hehe

I changed the hardscape a bit and brought forth a piece of wood that was hiding in one of the corners behind another piece of DW. Thanks to Patty, who pointed it out and made the suggestion. I think it looks a lot better, what do you all think?

Also cleared out the frontal left corner of ambulia and transplanted them to the left back corner. Its a bit of a shaded area but hopefully the ambulias will take to the shade.

This allowed the plants in the left corner to be appreciated and now we can see the swords and the nicely growing anubias.

The ludwiga tops are sprouting new leaves after recovering from clipping and replanting, hopefully they will stretch upwards and start covering the corner and hind walls of the tank.

The echinodorus has also shown some improvement after clearing out some of the shade from atop of them.

I uprooted the alternatheras and replanted them by burrowing the naked stalks deeper into the gravel and leaving only the tops showing from the substrate. New leaves coming out nicely, a bit shriveled up but nice looking in color and thickness.

I got a new plant from my friend El Tiburon Tailandes, many thanks go out to you Tib. The thing is, I really dont know what type of plant it is since its very little and only recently has been showing normal growth patterns. We will call this plant X and if anyone has an idea of what type of plant it is please let us know.

Ive been ferting with both Tetra Flora pride and Nutrafin Plant Gro for the last 3 weeks, hoping that this will help my pityful java fern, the leaves turn black and start to seem like they die. Any ideas on what may be causing this behaviour?

Hope you all enjoy the pics.

Thanks again,

James



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Left side...

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Center...

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Right side...

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Anubias...

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Swords...

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Echinodorus...

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Java Fern...

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A beautiful clump of algae...

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Alternathera line...

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This is plant X, first a full shot...

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Plant X close up...

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The lot of them marbles...

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Riney...

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I couldn't see the fish, so I played around with one of the photos. Nice fish.

Nice pics, plant x is rotala indica( rotundifolia). Love your hatchets.

Brengun thanks for the touch up on the photo of the hatchets. Greatly appreciatted.

Thank you as well, clownloachfan, for the ID on plant X, I was looking it up and Rotala rotundifolia seems to be the precise plant species. The term indica pertains to another plant though different from the R. rotundifolia.

Great help, thank you guys!

All the best,

James

Oh yeah Red....... point the finger at me in case no one likes it.

But you're right! You DO have other plants on the left side of your tank besides the ambulia.
I can see them now.....very pretty plants!

Well, now that I can see your other piece of driftwood, I'm going to name it camel-back. I had no idea it looked like that. Leave it to you to find odd driftwood. Now you have a camel-back & a Nessie.

I like that new plant. I like it's different shape, like fingers reaching upwards.
Once everything grows in (someone grab Red's scissors) I think you will like this look a lot better. If not, you can always change it around again.
Personally I like it better myself.

James , you have something new for us to look at everytime I peek at your tank . Tank looks interestingly different if a little sparse compared to what it was , no wonder Patty likes it .

I like the Hatchets too, very different looking fish .

Your Java fern problem is interesting , how long have they been in there ?
Shouldn't be a light problem so its either Carbon or Macros , How do you take care of these ?
It shouldn't be micros , but do you add any Flourish or similar ?

Any way love to help if I can .

Garry

Hi guys,

Well its been a while, sorry for not responding back in such a long time.

You will be happy to know that I havent "trimmed" since my last post and the tank is looking much the same.

The plants are growing very slowly. Ive continued to use Nutrafin Plant Gro that contains some micros and sometimes add a bit of Tetra Flora Pride but I think these ferts stop short on my plants requirements.

I have been advised to use Hydroponic fertilizer for the micros, this is what most everyone here uses, but Ive been reluctant to introduce non fish intended products in my tank.

Thanks for you comments Patty and Garry, they always put a smile on my face.

Garry the java fern has quite a while in there, Id have to say more than 6 months, but it hasnt really have a good foothold on the wood. I have retied it and now its secured with 12 pound fishing line hoping that the roots will become one with the wood.

The new leaves of the fern roll out and are nice and green but soon after turn very clear on the edges and then those edges turn into brown.

I add no CO2 to this tank, its only 1.8 WPG, do you think I should start running some addition of this in order to help the plants out?

Your help and all of the others support is greatly appreciatted.

Thanks again,

James

Well, i am glad the tank is still going great, keep up the great work. If anything changes, post some pics

Hi James,
I'd stick with the fertilizer routine that you are using
now. The plants all look well "fed." Generally speaking
it is only when one starts "driving" the plants with
light over 2 wpg, that the addition of CO2 becomes
a necessity. It would not hurt, and the plants would
appreciate it, but they won't give you the huge increase
in growth that would be commensurate with your money outlay.
To get that, you would need the injected CO2, and around
3 wpg. Then, the plants would "take off."
Frank


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