Howdy, I'm new to this forum and new to the hobby, so I'll give a little background: I've been doing this for a couple months. Started with a 10g tank and moved from 2 plants to about 7 plants in it, it finally finished cycling and my fiance and I made a deal, if I stick with it and am still rabid about it by the time the 10g settles down, she'd let me get a larger tank. So, last week as a birthday present to myself I picked up a brand spankin new 50g acrylic tank.
I spent quite a while with the LFS rep figuring out what to go with and now I have a 50g tank with about a 2.5" flourite substrate and a layer of pebble substrate over the top of it. With that I've got about 4 red hygro, 1 set of clippings of hygro ceylon from my other tank, 4 microsword bunches, 4 java ferns and some plants I don't recognize and can't remember the name of. I've also got 12 black skirt tetras in there cycling the whole thing. Tonight is my first water change, so before I start it I'll post some pictures of the tank currently and try to get some close ups of the plant I don't know the name of.
edit: Photo of the 50g at week 1
I spent quite a while with the LFS rep figuring out what to go with and now I have a 50g tank with about a 2.5" flourite substrate and a layer of pebble substrate over the top of it. With that I've got about 4 red hygro, 1 set of clippings of hygro ceylon from my other tank, 4 microsword bunches, 4 java ferns and some plants I don't recognize and can't remember the name of. I've also got 12 black skirt tetras in there cycling the whole thing. Tonight is my first water change, so before I start it I'll post some pictures of the tank currently and try to get some close ups of the plant I don't know the name of.
edit: Photo of the 50g at week 1
