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29 gallon
4 small angels
4 otos
1 med pleco(soon to be traded)
8-12 ghost shrimps

about 3wpg, with diy co2, no special gravel, with tablets. i want my tank to be heavily planted like one of those dutch aquariums, right now i have cabomba, amazon sword, red temple, apons, crypt wendtti, java fern.

and the best one thats growing like nuts is the apon, then crypt, then red temple, amazon sword is having clear new leaves now, and cabomba is shedding a little, java fern is eaten more and morei thought nothing really eats java fern... but the edges where it turns brown are eaten.

so any suggestions for my tank? i thought about anubias, anacharis, water sprite, wiseria, some kind of vall, i want to fix my amazon, so do i need iron for its clearness? anybody have bad experiences with these please let me know. so i wont get them



i am so excited because my co2 just started working yesterday, and it dropped my pH from 7.4 to now 6.8 ]]]]

http://www.aquabotanic.com/diagnose.htm
http://www.csd.net/~cgadd/aqua/art_plant_nutrient.htm

You say you're using fert tablets...which ones? Also, what is your nitrate level at, and phosphorus level if you have a kit for it. What sort of lighting do you have over the tank ...3 wpg of what? Do you dose any trace fertilizers in conjunction with the fert tablets? ( Tropica Mastergrow, Flourish comprehensive plant supplement, etc?)
Also, what is your gh and kh please.

[span class="edited"][Edited by jake 2004-07-19 07:12][/span]

Well if you like for it to look as a dutch tank, then you should go for more lush plants like Higrophila any variation, also more fat growing plants like Althernanthera reinecki, Red Ammannia, Bacopa monneri, elodea, Rotala and maybe a carpet depending on your lighting.

unsure my gh and kh, but they are below average, i dont know what kind of tabs they are because they were purchased long ago, dont know nitrate, dont know phosphorus, 4 compact fluorescent bulbs with 5000-6500k, and a full spectrum tube of fluorescent. i was looking for some iron supplements, but so far cant find any good ones at lfs.