Planting A Corner Tank

[Lord Fishheart]

I am moving my MBUNA to work and I am setting up a community aquarium in my Juwel Trigon 350.

I want a bit of colour in, therefore it needs to be planted.

Anybody got any tips for planting a corner tank?

 

[Geoff1991]

I like to think that you cant be advised on how to plant/scape a tank. Just keep moving stuff around until you like what youve done.

 

[Bigbadbaz]

Decide if you want to go down the substrate route or just pot up and bury your plants in the sand/gravel.
I personally pot them as I have BN's so I like to be able to really clean the gravel. I find it is also quicker and easier if I decide to have a move round.
I have bought plants from a well known auction site that are very reasonable and can be bought a various sizes depending on what height tank you are planting.

 

[Geoff1991]

If you want plants to fill out a big tank, theyre expensive but are really good quality

On the green machine, the tropica XL plants

Just make sure you can meet theyre requirements listed on the website and youre good to go.

http/www.thegreenmachineaquatics.com/mal...20XL%2520Plants

 

[MermaidMel]

Are you after advice on what plants to use, or where to plant them?

 

[three-fingers]

My advice would be to make sure the light reaches all of the plants once they have grown in.

Linear lighting doesn't work very efficiently in corner tanks IMO.

Shouldn't be as bad in the 350 (as I think it has 4 lights?) but in my 190 with T8's, I had to add a light to the back panel to make sure plants got light back there.

In the two corners, plants don't get much light either once the others have grown in a bit.

So try to plant strategically, use lowish-light plants in the corners and at the (bottom if you cant keep up with pruning). And if it's the T8 version, I would add another light somewhere as it's quite a deep tank.

The other thing is water flow...make sure you have it going in a different directions from more than one pump, relatively dead spots (again, particularly all three corners) can lead to algae.