Let me know what you think. It needed trimmed up in this photo, other then the heater across the back wall and needing trimmed what do you think of my setup
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Bigstick's 29 gallon
Let me know what you think. It needed trimmed up in this photo, other then the heater across the back wall and needing trimmed what do you think of my setup
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I like it. Nice color in the reds. I think an odd # of renekii or placing them in a group would be more balanced.
Some people say that red looks better if it's off-center in the background but I think you get away with it here.
Some people say that red looks better if it's off-center in the background but I think you get away with it here.
I find the reinickii in the left side within the Blyxa too distracting. Otherwise, I really like it.
Some of each left and middle is anubias, right side beside the blyxa is lobelia. I am really loving that lobelia it is a beauty!guaiac_boy said:
Hey thanks, I just noticed that as well, maybe behind the blyxa and in front of the rotala it would look ok.Bert H said:
Thanks for the comments and help, keep it comming, this is my first try at an aquascape
Thanks Jeff, that means alot comming from you! I apperciate your work as well! Ill update this and you folks let me know what you think
Forgot I even started this thead! Here are some new shots. Let me know what you think, I have changed a few things since the last photo
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Little different view
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Little different view
Very nice growth with DIY CO2, the HC is looking great as well! I'm loving the color the Limnophilia aromatica is giving!!! keep up the good work!
Thanks, the moss is just there for the shrimp to hang out in, I could move it back a little, funny how you dont really notice those things, thats why I posted!, John I have pressurized CO2, I DIYed for about a month
This is the Spec of Big stick tank:
65 watt PC for 10 hrs
30" T-5 36 watts across the back for 8 hours in the middle.
Pressurized CO2 cranking at 30+ppm
Dry ferts, modified EI, I dont like dosing as high as EI and rely on the plant to tell me what I need.
Flourish 2-3ml every other day Flourish Iron 1-2 ml on the same days.
Filstar XP1
Addition powerhead for added flow- I like to see the Cyperus helferi flowing in the current!
That tank john is my inspiration on my first aquascape, thats the one i told you that has a coralife 65watts and can grow L. Aromitaca but now i think he add a T-5 bulb because his plants are leaning at the center. Hope to have a tank like that someday. Your 29 gal. tank john and this tank is the best 29 gallon i ever see, Job well done Guys!!!
65 watt PC for 10 hrs
30" T-5 36 watts across the back for 8 hours in the middle.
Pressurized CO2 cranking at 30+ppm
Dry ferts, modified EI, I dont like dosing as high as EI and rely on the plant to tell me what I need.
Flourish 2-3ml every other day Flourish Iron 1-2 ml on the same days.
Filstar XP1
Addition powerhead for added flow- I like to see the Cyperus helferi flowing in the current!
That tank john is my inspiration on my first aquascape, thats the one i told you that has a coralife 65watts and can grow L. Aromitaca but now i think he add a T-5 bulb because his plants are leaning at the center. Hope to have a tank like that someday. Your 29 gal. tank john and this tank is the best 29 gallon i ever see, Job well done Guys!!!
Cyperus helferi and the Pogostemon Helferi looks very nice! I love how the former looks like it "sways" in the current. The scape has been improved since the first photo ;-)
Perhaps a bit more taller grass plants like Cyperus helferi or some Vals will add more variety to the right background? Not that they're looking bad now, they look nice already ;-)
Do keep up the good work.
Perhaps a bit more taller grass plants like Cyperus helferi or some Vals will add more variety to the right background? Not that they're looking bad now, they look nice already ;-)
Do keep up the good work.
Thanks folks! Thanks cooper for posting the specs.
There is a powerhead behind the Cyperus helferi that causes that look, that was my intention.
Aaron, Ill have a meeting here sometime
There is a powerhead behind the Cyperus helferi that causes that look, that was my intention.
Aaron, Ill have a meeting here sometime
A few changes, took out a few stems of Limnophila aromatica, and slide the narrow leaf stellatus to the right a little and put some rotala mac. green in the back left corner. Thined out the downoi, Cyperus helferi, and thats about it. Picked up a few bee shrimp a few weeks ago at my LFS.
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Also my Eriocaulon cinereum has been flowering/gone to seed for at least 2 months, I was hoping that I would have many more plants soon but that dosent seem to be the case, any info or insight into this plant, anything that I need to do?
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And a crappy photo of the bee shrimp
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Also my Eriocaulon cinereum has been flowering/gone to seed for at least 2 months, I was hoping that I would have many more plants soon but that dosent seem to be the case, any info or insight into this plant, anything that I need to do?
And a crappy photo of the bee shrimp
I would grow the EC in lower light to avoid flowering and promote plant division. Nice looking plants.
Mark
Mark
Thanks alot folks!!! Lowering the light really isnt an option for me mark, then the HC wont grow as fast/well as it does now.
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