My Tanks And Plant Growth

[Termato]

I will be posting pictures of my 5 Gallon Betta Tank, 10G Fry Tank, 20G Community, 29G Main Community.

I put Flourish Comprehensive in on Wednesdays and Sundays. Weekly Water Changes on Wednesdays. I still plan on planting a good carpeting plant and eventually a net of java moss across the back of each tank. Just need time ofc.

Any suggestions are welcome. I am mainly working on the 5G and 20G because the other two are more complete (although none are no where near done). I am also going to be keeping track of plant growth by posting weekly pictures of all the tanks in such details as bellow.

Here is the 5 Gallon Cornelius' Chamber. This tank has been set up for about a week.

Tank Overview:

Fish In Tank:
Male Betta
Snails

Plants In Tank:
Mondo Grass
Water Wisteria
Anubias
Java Moss

Dosage: 1ml of Flourish Comprehensive 2x per week

Left Side Detail:

Right Side Detail:

For those who want to see Cornelius here is a video of his beauty: Cornelius The Betta - YouTube
DDDD


Here is the 10 Gallon Pineapple Fry Tank: This tank has been set up for almost 4 months

Tank Overview:

Fish In Tank:
1 Female Sailfin Black Molly (pregnant)
20+ Red Wag Platy Fry
1 Female Sailfin Black Molly Fry
Snails

Plants In Tank:
Cabomba
Java Fern
Hornwort
Water Wisteria
Red Ludwigia
Java Moss
Anubias
Frill

Dosage: 1-2ml of Flourish Comprehensive 2x Per Week

Left Side Detail:

Front Detail:

Right Side View:

Left Side View:

Fry Tank Video:
Fry Tank - YouTube

Here is the 20 Gallon Community Tank: This tank has been set up for about 3 weeks.

Tank Overview:

Fish In Tank:
1 Male Sailfin Black Molly
2 Female Redwag Platys
Snails

Plants In Tank:
Cabomba
Java Moss
Hornwort
Water Wisteria
Red Ludwigia

Dosage: 2-2.5ml Flourish Comprehensive 2x Per Week

Wisteria Zoom In:

Bottom Ride Size:

Floating Ride Size:

View from Right Side:

Back Middle Zoom:

Back Left Zoom:

Here is a quick Video of the tank:
Small Community - YouTube

Here is the 29 Gallon Main Community: This tank has been set up for almost two months

Tank Overview (this picture is blurry sorry):

Fish In Tank:
1 Male Sailfin Lyretail Creamsicle Molly
1 Male Bolivian Ram
11 Neon Tetras
4 Bronze Cory

Plants in Tank:
Cabomba
Sword Plant
Corkscrew Vallis
Java Fern
Hornwort
Water Wisteria
Red Ludwigia
Java Moss

Dosage: 3.5-4ml of Flourish Comprehensive 2x Per Week

Front Red Ludwigia Zoom IN:

Front Zoom In:

Left Side View:

Top Left Zoom In:

Left View of Java Fern and Baby Ferns:

Left Side View of Corkscrew Vallis and Sword:

Feeding 4 Minute Video DDD of this tank DDD :

Feeding the 29G Community - YouTube

 

[TheJ0kerrr]

Very nice looking tanks! Looks like you've put a lot of time and effort setting them all up and taking pictures + videos! I know nothing about aquatic plants for now, i'll eventually get into it. I think i'll find this thread very inspirational.

 

[Termato]

Very nice looking tanks! Looks like you've put a lot of time and effort setting them all up and taking pictures + videos! I know nothing about aquatic plants for now, i'll eventually get into it. I think i'll find this thread very inspirational.

Thanks Joker! Indeed I have put a lot of time into all of the tanks. I plan on putting even more though ahhaah. My goal is to make all of them look more natural and overgrown.

If you want to start out with some easy plants you should really consider getting some low light plants to start out with like Java Fern and Java Moss. They are low maintenance and low light! I have them in my tanks (you can see Java Fern in the 10 and 29 gallon tanks. The Java Moss is Harder to see but it is in all the tanks.) and didn't use any fertilizer and they were growing fine. They also do not require high light so no special bulbs are required (although always recommended lol)

 

[Xraymark]

Excellent clatter of tanks( I had to look up the collective noun for tanks). All very clean. I especially like the two largest.

 

[Termato]

Excellent clatter of tanks( I had to look up the collective noun for tanks). All very clean. I especially like the two largest.

Thank you very much! I did not know the collective noun for tanks either Learn something new every day!

I am hoping to get a carpet plant so I get even more green in there

 

[thereverendturtle]

Nice looking tanks. My only criticism would be that the mondo grass isn't an aquatic plant. It will live for a while, but eventually will rot and pollute the tank.

 

[Termato]

Nice looking tanks. My only criticism would be that the mondo grass isn't an aquatic plant. It will live for a while, but eventually will rot and pollute the tank.

Thank you very much!

That was the reason I moved it into th 5 gallon. Do you think it can live with about 1 to 4 inches of the tips of the leaves sticking out of the water? That is what I have it doing right now. I stuck them over the filter so they get light and are over the water but the main body of the plant is still submerged.

Here is how i have it:

 

[Termato]

Today I added a Kribensis Cichlid!! She is beautiful!

I also 30% + water changes on all tanks. Some as much at 45%.

Added Noted flourish dose (first forum post) to each tank.

Here are pictures of the tanks ;-)

Betta 5 Gallon Overview:

Not much growth this week. Some of the roots in the anubias got greener. I didn't take details because of that.

Fry 10 Gallon Overview:

The Cabomba is growing like wild fire. The Java Moss is starting to get healthier. I cut the grass plant (forgot what it is called) and replanted it to grow more. Will do again twice to new stems next week. Cut off old bottom leaf of anubias on bottom left.

Cabomba Zoom In:

Grass Zoom In:

Anubias and Red Ludwigia Zoom In:

Fern and Moss Zoom In:

20 Gallon Overview:

In the 20 one of the Red Wag Platys died, I don't know why. The other one has not been eating well. No physical signs of any problems. The Male Molly is doing fine swimming happy and eating. There are a lot of snails in there.

I replanted some plants so stuff moved

Wisteria Zoom - no real growth:

Forward Moss and Red Ludwigia:

Hopefully stuff picks up in this tank

29 Gallon Overview:

In the 29 I replanted the cambomba in the front because it came loose. It also lost half its leaves because of that. I also removed some lost leaves of vallis (2 in total).

I also added a Krinbensis Cichlid today. She is beautiful and swimming happy.

Here is the tank overview:
As you may notice the Vallis grew, the java ferns grew, the roots of the ludwigia are getting bigger and the leaves brighter. The sword is getting brighter.

Here is a zoom of the Krinbensis (Female):

Vallis picture:

Java Fern Zoom In:

Sword and Red Ludwigia Zoom In:

And here is the new Video of the tank: