KentBlokey said:
That's fantastic, well done
Can you tell me what the Plant at the very back is please?
Im affraid i am rubbish with the names.
Basically i just bought lots (and i mean £100s of pounds) of plants over about 2 months.......anything that did well i kept and use cuttings to replace anything that wasnt doing so well.
I know have a collection that seem do do great and pearl O2 like lemonade!
When i do some better pics later i will do close ups on the plants and maybe someone else can ID them?
In the meantime my simple approach was:
Left side.....big long leaves mix with med length leaves to give a sort of tall grass effect (and a big leafed thing in the middle!) These are set around a lot of large rocks which were used for hiding by the shrimp.
Back middle...when i ripped out the rubbish filetr box i was left with a lot of space - but also wanted to hide the pipes - there are two inlets, two outlets, a co2 chamber, an airstone pipe, a thermomoter sensor, an undergravel heater cable all running down the back corner.....so there is half a tree of wwod there then a bushy plant - its almost impossible to see ANY hardware when viewing the tank.
right side, more wood and cave for plec, cool plant that goes redder the higher it grows. Far right is some sort of tall multi branched thing!
Middle is some red plants for colour, some crypts? which are the short bushy ones then lots of ricca and glosso with loads more wood.
ohh...and two java frens which are hidden in the middle......i also have lots of java moss which lives high in the back at the top......it collects bits of leaves that float to the back and would otherwise rot, sink and clog the inlets.
as you can tell.......i really have no idea what i am doing and just planted what looked good till everything was doing well!
T
should add.....i dont suggest the "buy lots and see what lives" approach as sensible......its just what i did. if you do it and get divorced for wasting money dont blame me
(tip - only bring new fish stuff in the house when wife isnt looking)