planted 5 gallon

[aloaring]

This is my old 3 gallon tank with a 6 watt bulb. the Java fern was thriving in there as well as a red leaved plant, it grew out of a bulb!! and anther bulb plant was thriving in there.(sorry no good with names!! ) Just normal gravel and a trickle filter. i found it easier to grow plants in small tanks than big tanks!!

 

[wrs]

thanks for the pics and info. I definetly will stick with low lights if I cant get more watts. though I will be trying to find some lights like that.

 

[CTS]

Reading this thread has me thinking, i have a 5 gal. just sitting there doing nothing. yup its gonna be a betta tank!!!

 

[Yenko]

I failed to run a 5 gallon tank with 14W of light; absolutely nothing would grow. I have a fairly sucessful 10 gallon tank with 28W of light, complete with pearling plants and hygrophila that grows a centimeter every 2 days for a small stalk and a centimeter a day for the big established plants. Despite that I plan to rip out the hygrophila and replace it entirely with Rotala Indica; the smaller, more orderly leaves of the Rotala will look better in such a small tank. The Hygrophila is also needed to plant my 70 gallon once it is set up; the more plants I have at startup the better the project will go.