Okie dokie, last week I finally re-scaped my 15gallon, 1WGP tank. Previously it felt constantly overgrown, and the fish got a big cramped. I removed the resin tree roots, added some well soaked mopani wood (talk about tannin release when soaking!), removed loads of the old plants and added some new ones (courtesy of Greenline, these guys really do excellent aquarium plants!). Much of the planting is to benefit what I feel the different fish prefer, but it is also aimed at a more controllable growth of the plants: plants that send out runners can go nuts! So, here is the current setup:
My current thoughts are:
1) I want to move all the cabomba behind the mopani, to the right of the spike in the wood, taking out the rotala macranda
2) I'm thinking a nice sized java fern (or similar) may look really good to the far left corner
3) Not sure on the bacopa to the right of the tank, the colour is a bit light for that location I feel
4) I like, but am not overly sure, on the monosolenium tenerus (spelling)
I am looking to replace the naff Tetra CO2 system with the Nutrafin kit (to get a more balanced CO2 level), I also have some thoughts on modding the hood to take two light tubes, giving me 2WPG: rather than use a method I've seen online which puts a second tube right at the front of the hood I am debating a Dremel (et-al) to remove all the existing Juwel lighting gear, and putting in two new tube mounts and reflectors, to give a more even lighting spread: plants grow towards the front too much already and adding a second tube at the front won't make it any better. I would like to get the plants growing upwards. I reckon I can do this without much hassle.
Oh, and my anubias looks like it is going to flower!
My current thoughts are:
1) I want to move all the cabomba behind the mopani, to the right of the spike in the wood, taking out the rotala macranda
2) I'm thinking a nice sized java fern (or similar) may look really good to the far left corner
3) Not sure on the bacopa to the right of the tank, the colour is a bit light for that location I feel
4) I like, but am not overly sure, on the monosolenium tenerus (spelling)
I am looking to replace the naff Tetra CO2 system with the Nutrafin kit (to get a more balanced CO2 level), I also have some thoughts on modding the hood to take two light tubes, giving me 2WPG: rather than use a method I've seen online which puts a second tube right at the front of the hood I am debating a Dremel (et-al) to remove all the existing Juwel lighting gear, and putting in two new tube mounts and reflectors, to give a more even lighting spread: plants grow towards the front too much already and adding a second tube at the front won't make it any better. I would like to get the plants growing upwards. I reckon I can do this without much hassle.
Oh, and my anubias looks like it is going to flower!
