From Plastic To Real

[gregswimm]

My 29 gal had plastic plants i removed some and added some valls and Brazilian pennywort
I have 1 36" 6500K bulb above the tank and no CO2
The plants on the left are real and the ones on the right are fake. What would you replace the ones on the right with? I would still like to maintain the cover in front of the wood piece as it is a cave for my kribs.

Also, if I scrape that algae off the glass will it reattach to my plants?

 

[Noahs ark6]

My 29 gal had plastic plants i removed some and added some valls and Brazilian pennywort
I have 1 36" 6500K bulb above the tank and no CO2
The plants on the left are real and the ones on the right are fake. What would you replace the ones on the right with? I would still like to maintain the cover in front of the wood piece as it is a cave for my kribs.

Also, if I scrape that algae off the glass will it reattach to my plants?

Answer to red---- you could hold your water syphon next to it, so when you scrape it of it gets sucked straight up. As for the plants on the right, i would use Green Myriophyllum, these also look quite similar to the fake ones

 

[gregswimm]

Cool, I took your advice on cleaning the glass which I did (I don't know why I waited so long )
I also got 3 more vals and 2 anubias, just waiting till friday for my LFS to get some anacharis and green myriophyllum in

 

[Noahs ark6]

Looks realy good looking forward to seeing it with the green myriophyllum in

 

[gregswimm]

do you think the myriophyllum will do well in very hard water with a p around 7.4?

 

[Noahs ark6]

do you think the myriophyllum will do well in very hard water with a p around 7.4?

KH can be between 3 and 8, 8 is high. and ph is 5.5 to 7.5. So you should just be ok

 

[gregswimm]

Well I ended up going with Anacharis because I have a high phosphate content in my tap water and I figured i will need a good nutrient sponge.
I also got a bonus plant that was stuck in one of the bunches

Bonus plant

 

[Noahs ark6]

That looks great, an amazing improvement, well done

 

[gregswimm]

TYVM
Hopefully i can keep the algae down in this tank. Now to get some foreground plants