Random Piccies - Some Good Ones

[jimbooo]

Hi Everyone, been snapping away again. i really must set up a journal but in the meantime this will have to do

Angel over riccia carpet

close up cardinal tetra

very rare shot, cardinal yawning!!!

lazy sailfin plec passing time on a lilly pad

blue rainbow

Java Fern pearling like mad

I recieved a lovely parcel from RYO the other day. here's the piccies

Glosso in rio 180 (from RYO)

Glosso in rekord 60 (from RYO)

Sagittaria Subulata (bottom left) in 50G cube (from RYO)

Look at this anubias nana. i pruned off some algae covered leaves last week and it's just taken off

not the best pic (for obvious reasons)
4 day old guppy fry in the cube

hope you enjoyed that
Comments welcome

 

[Bloo]

you really should stop flaunting your tanks so shamelessly !






they are just super stunning and make me incredibly jealous but I know there's hope for me yet (looking back at your pics before you started on the planting trend).

 

[jimbooo]

you really should stop flaunting your tanks so shamelssly !






they are just super stunning and make me incredibly jealous but I know there's hope for me yet (looking back at your pics before you started on the planting trend).

yeah shocking aren't they. thanks mate

 

[Squid]

Very nice indeed... could you set up mine please.. just kidding...

angel fish.. adviseable for beginners.. or should i learn how to look after rocks first ) ) )

 

[jimbooo]

i've bought a pair on 2 occasions. both times one killed the other leaving a single angel fish. they are aggressive towards each other unless in a big tank. due to their adult size and shape they need a tall ish tank. mine is in a juwel rio 180, thats about the limit on the height front any lower and he wouldn't be able to swim up and down as he would stretch the whole depth of a 10g (well almost). if you buy baby angels and let them grow up with the tank occupants they tend to get along fine. put an adult in with an established tank and all hell will break loose. anything neon tetra size will be eaten (they are it's natural food in the wild). they are very strong fish believe it or not. i feed frozen food with a turkey baster, as soon as it hits the water the angel almost knocks it out of my hand. greedy little chappie.

 

[AndyTaylor]

Beautiful, jimbooo. I'm redoing my Riccia later after seeing yours. It looks awesome. Quick question.... is there a reason for planting your Glosso in individual little stems like that. I've been putting mine down in clumps. I take a whole plant out of the pot and cut it in quarters. MAybe thats why mine is dying on me?

 

[jimbooo]

thanks mate. have you seen my pinned thread on riccia (in planted section) that may help when redoing yours. as to the glosso each leaf and root is an individual plant in its own right. by planting each individually your carpet will grow much faster.

if you plant a chain of 5 leaves the runners can only come from each end. if that same lump is planted seperatly thats 2 runners from each side of the plantlet so in option 1 you will get 2 new runners in option 2 you will get 10. make sence?

ohh i just realised i captured another new addition in some of the pics.

who can spot my riccia covered (naturally!) coconut cave.

 

[AndyTaylor]

Perfect sense, mate. I'll be redoing mine later, i fear. I'll pick up some fert sticks and redo it. Can't hurt. Apart from anything else, i'll save a fortune on glosso doing it your way!
Just thinking about it, the centre of my plants must be getting no light at all!

On the riccia, your guide was printed out and consulted extensively! I just made a bad job of it is all!

 

[jimbooo]

oh well we live and learn. glad the pin helped (i've used plenty of others in the past and would be lost without them).

on the fert sticks front try and get jbl ferrotabs. they are tablets which you can break up into little bits, very slow dissolving so work well. the fert sticks are too big and you cant submerge them, normally you stab them in the gravel 1/2 buried, 1/2 sticking out of the gravel.

use some tweezers to push them down. the bits that inevitably break away from the tablet float. if you make a mess of it you'll have white bits floating on your water for ages. the trick is to grip the bit with the tweezers then plonk it straight into the gravel. if you start fiddling/dropping it on the way down/moving it etc it'll go pear shaped. these are very high in iron and do a good job of restoring the nutrients in laterite/flourite etc..

 

[zig]

Very nice pics the glosso will really suit the smaller juwel tank.

 

[littleimp]

Great pics, especially like the close up of the cardinal. All plants look extremely healthy, I hope mine turn out the same.

On another note, has anyone every bought the plant packages from greenline. I'm looking at the 72" quality pack of 200 plants. Are they any good?? They just seem too cheap

 

[jimbooo]

never bought a collection (i think hondour has though) the thing is 200 plants means 200 stems ie a bunch of ludwigia can be 15 plants in their eyes.

quality is good though. my riccia fluitians and tiger lotus lillies (the pic with the lazy plec!) came from greenline.

Very nice pics the glosso will really suit the smaller juwel tank.

cheers mate i prefer it in there as well. not sure what will happen in the 40G what with the depth and the lillies over the top. it's a bit shady but we'll see.

 

[fish_face]

I'm loving that riccia plant, how do you grow that so well? i've seen it in pictures, but never in the shops Can you tell me what RYO is - is that where you got it?

 

[pseud]

Looks great, will look fantastic when the glosso spreads.

That driftwood on the left... I'm thinking christmas moss (or fissidens)

 

[jimbooo]

RYO

he sent me some freebies after his weekly prune thats all.

Riccia is very hard to find. dwarf riccia and riccia fluitians are available from tropica but has to be special ordered by the LFS, they wont stock it. greenline sell riccia fluitians

link

Looks great, will look fantastic when the glosso spreads.

That driftwood on the left... I'm thinking christmas moss (or fissidens)

cheers mate, i hope so. as to the wood i like some bare wood showing, breaks up the look a bit. i think i've got enough to cope with for now but thanks for the idea (and i'm banned from the LFS, apparently i'm spending too much money ) )