Since I started researching for the discus riparium I have considered emerged and emersed plants for my other tanks, the freshwater ones at least.
So here are my first steps into ripariums. I added these plants today.
The plants are spathiphyllum and they're planted in expanded clay pellets. The containers are ricotta baskets that I cut and tied back together to reduce them in size.
This is the shrimp tank, a 62 litre tank with a carpet of glossostigma and a small copse of cabomba behind a chunk of dragon rock. There are no animals in there yet, not even snails from the cabomba. I wanted to get the glosso nice and spread before the shrimps got a chance to dig it up as it happened in previous shrimp tanks.
I'm about to get an initial population of crystal red shrimps
This is my ram tank. Two pairs of rams and a school of ember tetras, plus a culture of pond and ramshorn snails to keep it tidy and feed the crabs in the terrarium. Same arrangement for the plants with the ricotta baskets.
In the background you can see an alternanthera that grew out of the water
I'm going to use the same baskets also for the discus tank, but since that's going to be a lot larger (around 900 litres) and the plants are going to be a lot larger too, I'm not going to reduce the size of them and use them as is.
So here are my first steps into ripariums. I added these plants today.
The plants are spathiphyllum and they're planted in expanded clay pellets. The containers are ricotta baskets that I cut and tied back together to reduce them in size.
This is the shrimp tank, a 62 litre tank with a carpet of glossostigma and a small copse of cabomba behind a chunk of dragon rock. There are no animals in there yet, not even snails from the cabomba. I wanted to get the glosso nice and spread before the shrimps got a chance to dig it up as it happened in previous shrimp tanks.
I'm about to get an initial population of crystal red shrimps
This is my ram tank. Two pairs of rams and a school of ember tetras, plus a culture of pond and ramshorn snails to keep it tidy and feed the crabs in the terrarium. Same arrangement for the plants with the ricotta baskets.
In the background you can see an alternanthera that grew out of the water
I'm going to use the same baskets also for the discus tank, but since that's going to be a lot larger (around 900 litres) and the plants are going to be a lot larger too, I'm not going to reduce the size of them and use them as is.
