Re: Planted 75 gallon Tank
Looks like a great start to a carpet .
I look forward to seeing the tank as it progresses .
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coralbandit
Looks like a great start to a carpet .
I look forward to seeing the tank as it progresses .
Thank you Tom, I have a picture in my mind as to what I want, but we all know what we think it will look like and what it actually does look like are sometimes 2 completely different things, hehe.....
At least I have a nice group of rams to go in it.....
Thx
Larry
Re: Planted 75 gallon Tank
Only thing with carpeting plants is cleaning. Maybe also co2. Are you planing co2 and what type of lighting.
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Iminit
Only thing with carpeting plants is cleaning. Maybe also co2. Are you planing co2 and what type of lighting.
Those are some good questions and here are my thoughts on what I am planning and my thinking:
I have selected a seed which according to the supplier should be able to be grown without CO2, but have no problem adding CO2 if I find it needs it. The light I am using is my saltwater lighting system, I am able to program the spectrum as I need to so am going to go with what I have for now, am also adding plants that can survive low to medium lighting. anubias, swords etc.
Will adding bottom cleaners to help with clean up. While having a carpeted bottom is a bit more difficult, you can carefully siphon above it and get a lot of the waste.
Thank you
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Good one Larry. What is the carpeting plant you seeded? Looks like it's gonna be nice and thick. How tall will it grow?
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danotaylor
Good one Larry. What is the carpeting plant you seeded? Looks like it's gonna be nice and thick. How tall will it grow?
They call it love grass:
Description they listed:
"Easy to grow, no need of CO2, nor strong light.Temperature should not be too low, Add water daily to keep the temperature in the fish tank at around 28℃(82℉).Each bag can plant 30x30cm tank"
Bought the seeds from amazon for like 9 dollars.
Not sure how tall, figuring not that tall as it is a carpeting plant, should be able to trim if it gets too tall.
Thx
Larry
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Looking forward to the progress man. Haven't heard of love grass but it looks cool!
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Nice one Larry...when are you gonna fill er up?
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I filled the tank up with water and added a couple of my Anubis plants, they are a large variety (Anubis Barteri broad-leaf), it has been filled less than 24 hours and is still a bit cloudy. Will plant the rest of my plants today (baby chain swords and some large swards and a grass type forgot what its called.) Hope you like the pics.
Also had a portion of the carpet start to die and am working to remove it and added some lava rock there.
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Larry
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Shan_Evolved
Looking forward to the progress man. Haven't heard of love grass but it looks cool!
Shan:
That is just what this seller called them, but looking at the same types of seeds on other sites, the basically call them grass seeds, for the aquarium, hopefully will grow good in my setup, i kinda messed up and didn`t add water soon enough, and had some start to die and got kind of moldy. Am fixing that and will see what I can plant in its place.
Thx
Larry
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Looks great Larry. Looking forward to progress pics :D
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danotaylor
Looks great Larry. Looking forward to progress pics :D
Thank you Daniel appreciate it.
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Well this didn't work as I had planned. All of the carpet died for some reason, so I am taking it all out (what a mess) and am going to replant some other type of carpet.
Larry
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