10g planted coming together, also new FREE fish

[MXPX4318]

alright so I've been slowing setting up this planted tank over the past couple months, and it's finally starting to come together (besides the sword in the front it's just there to grow up a bit then off it goes) so this is a pretty low tech planted tank, just 17watt flourecnet strip over 10g, Shultz aquatic plant soil/sand mix, no liquid ferts (yet), some simple hygrophilia, a crypt and java fern, I am thinking of adding a few more crypts but that'll be about it. so enough talk here's the picture:

and then I work at petsmart and sometimes we get people bringing in their fish they don't want (even tanks sometimes) and we can't re-sale them so the fish are adopted out by those of us that work there, and yesterday a lady brought in a powder blue dwarf gourami, 2 albino glo lites, and 2 white skirt tetras, so I brought them home (the white skirts will go w/ my other white skirts in my 29g, and the glo lites will stay in the 10g (to which I'll add my 4 regular glo lites from my 20g) once again enough talking, but I've only got the one pic of the gourami, others may come later (but they're kinda dull fish to take pics of):

enjoy
Phillip

 

[laurasmithuk]

the tank looks wicked mate! love the plants.... am trying to get mine planted up but having few probs..... good luck with it!

 

[Bloo]

that's a lovely little tank you have there

 

[qwikimpss]

Thats a gorgeous male dwarf! Very nice looking tank. Been a while since my planted 29 was that algae free!

 

[-cAtFiSh-]

its looking really good. will look great when the plants have grown a bit more.
but that 'sword plant', isnt it a java fern? ah well, nevermind.
some bogwood in there would look really great too

edit: and the gourami is so shiney and pretty

 

[MXPX4318]

on the left is a piece of java fern but right in the middle in the front is a small sword (looks almost like a piece of hygro out of place lol) when I take it out I'll be filling that whole front section w/ some sort of low growing not TOO light demanding plant (or maybe I'll just double up on the light (I've got a double tube stripe light I could put over it) and that would help suffice.

thanks for the comments (I had a terrible hair algea problem in there but I got a couple florida (american) flag fish and over the course of a week they've really knocked it out)

Phillip

 

[-cAtFiSh-]

on the left is a piece of java fern but right in the middle in the front is a small sword (looks almost like a piece of hygro out of place lol) when I take it out I'll be filling that whole front section w/ some sort of low growing not TOO light demanding plant (or maybe I'll just double up on the light (I've got a double tube stripe light I could put over it) and that would help suffice.

thanks for the comments (I had a terrible hair algea problem in there but I got a couple florida (american) flag fish and over the course of a week they've really knocked it out)

Phillip

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oh ya i can see it now

 

[zig]

I think this is a good effort, nice and simple but very effective for a small tank, i like it.

 

[George Farmer]

Nice tank and photography.

It is good to see your Hygrophila polysperma doing well in low-light, this should give hope to more people wanting to start taking the planted route, without all the extra lighting, CO2 and ferts etc.

Well done.

 

[MXPX4318]

thanks gf, I also think that hygro is a great plant for those looking for a nice low demand plant, gf I know you use dwarf sag, and I've got it in my 20g but that's under 3.5wpg and co2 injection, I was wondering if you had any exeperience or knowledge of it in lower light conditions such as my 10g is.

Phillip

 

[George Farmer]

Sag may do ok as you have a nutrient-rich substrate. Certainly worth a try.