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You can find some pics of my semi-planted tank on my blog at www.gettingtanked.blogspot.com

I have wisteria and anacharis planted and I plan to get more of each, they seem to be growing well, although the wisteria is getting covered in some brown algae (diatoms?)

Anyhow, you can see how the leaves of the wisteria (from bottom to top) have transformed in the couple months I have had them.

Hi Scott,

Why 'semi-planted'? I do see some plants, could be some more, though. Are you planning to turn it into a 'planted tank' long term? Itwould be great if you could post a picture of your tank full shot

Dear Scott

The wysteria you have was grown in emersed water and then you submerged it. So the two kinds of leaves you have are from going from emersed growth to submerged growth.

The Full leaves will eventually die off and the newer leaves will take their place. If you have long stems with no growth on them, i suggest cutting the stems down so that the new growth can easily reach the substrate and im sure you will be seeing new roots from the plants.

I agree with claudia on the fact that we would love to see a full tank shot to get a good idea of whats going on in the tank.

Thanks for your input as always, Shane
http://thetanklog.blogspot.com/ - [ Thanks to ScottF ]
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when I say semi-planted, I mean that there are some plastic plants as well as the live ones...

when I got the wistera, I believe they were indeed floaters, with those full leaves. I prefer the thinner leaves, even though they have developed some brown crud...

Congrats on the live plants Scott! I too am giving a few of them a try. Do you have any special substrate for them, or did you just plant them in your existing gravel?

I don't know much about algae, but if you go to "search" & type in brown algae all kinds of threads come up about it. I wish you luck with it!

Ok after a PM I thought I would clarify my point. The difformis that you bought was grown in water but you have now submerged it in the water so its no longer has contact to the air and so the leaves are reacting to the change in environment and are becomming the underwater version of the difformis/Wysteria.

Shane

Thanks for your input as always, Shane
http://thetanklog.blogspot.com/ - [ Thanks to ScottF ]
http://www.natureaquariumclubofutah.com/main.html

updated tank pics after the addition of 3 gold WCMM's and 3 regular WCMM's as well as some fresh hornwort and jungle vals...

this one gives you a good idea of the overall layout...



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here's the Tiger Barbs, enjoying some algae discs...

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again, more tiger barbs... I wanted to have a shoal of cories, but you can see how jagged my substrate is...

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here's a full on front view of the layout again... I tried to get the majority of the plantings to the rear and sides so my minnows and barbs had room to swim freely

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another full frontal

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here's another shot of the barbs and the driftwood

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one more overall pic of the tank.. you can see some of the brown diatoms on the wisteria leaves... note how the wisteria are transforming from the broader leaves at the bottom that they came with, to the submersed leaves they've grown in their 3 month stay in my tank...

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nd here's a good peek at the wcmm's... they really look great, glad I added them. I dropped the temp in my tank from 80 gradually down to about 74, to give the wcmm's a better feel, and the anacharis a fighting chance...

here you can see the brown gunk on my wisteria even better... I was looking for a BN pleco but the LFS didnt have one, no sae's either

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Scott , Fantastic shots mate , love the tank even if I think you could use a few more plants,
but then I would say that .

As far as the corys go you could put a layer of finer, rounder gravel over the top of that
substrate you've got .I've added gravel many times , just wash it very well and use a coffee
mug to lower it to the bottom of the tank . An inch should be ok I think , you could also
remove a bit of the current stuff the same way, if your worried about the substrate being
too deep. That will probably kick up a bit of mulm but your filter should be able to handle that .

Corys are so much fun I think they would be worth the effort .

Garry

man, that's good thinking garry... I love cories, but in my 20g I am guessing that I am close to full fish capacity at this point... I dunno, maybe 6 lil cories wouldnt hurt...

I'll tell you what, my aquaclear HOB clears any water debris pretty quickly following water changes and gravel vacs... it's really pretty amazing, I had just done a 25% WC, gravel vac an hour or so prior to taking those pics...

Very nice scott! Your plants look good despite the slight problem. I want to see this tank again when everything is filled in.

And yeah, I thought I HAD big gravel.


Pretty little fish you have there, the WCMM. We don't have them around here.

I wish you luck with it all scott!

Nice pics & your fish look content

One suggestion would be to switch that tank background to black construction paper, dull side in, you'll get more depth and the things in the tank will stand out more.

The Amazon Nut...

hey Moss, thanks for the idea, maybe I will check that out.... the back ground I have now is pretty cheesy, as are most that are avaiable at the LFS...

thanks!

Wow, nice tank for a 20 gallon! It looks so open and big! I like theVals, and i agree with DMM, a black BG would look nice!

Congrats!

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