"Cherry Tree" 10 Gallon Planted - Aquascaping

Wood · 01-03-2007, 08:37 AM

Here is my 10 gallon planted tank. New pictures taken with Digital. No More camera phone pics!!!

All plants added over month ago, recently trimmed. I figured I would start this journal now since it is not grown out much.

Inhabitants are 3 Otto's & 20+ Cherry Shrimp.

ADA Aquasoil Amazonia & ADA Bright Sand. One piece of driftwood.

I dose KH2PO4, Flourish Iron and Kent Pro-Plant. DIY C02 with Hagen Ladder. PH 6.5

6500K 14 hours a day. Keeps plants small.

Plants are as follows:

1. Ammannia gracilis
2. Rotala sp. green
3. Rotala rotundifolia
4. Limnophila aromatica
5. Ludwigia glandulosa
6. Anubias barteri var. nana
7. Hemianthus callitrichoides
8. Rotala wallichii
9. Hemianthus micranthemoides

Front View

Front Right Side

Front Left Side

Overhead Left Side

Overhead Right Side

Left Side

Lazy Otto

Asian Filter Shrimp (looking overhead)

Hope you like it.

-Ryan

youjin · 01-03-2007, 09:32 AM

looking good....

I am surprised that you keep the light on 14 hours a day. No algae issue with so long a light duration (>12 hours) ?

Wood · 01-03-2007, 11:37 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by youjin

looking good....

I am surprised that you keep the light on 14 hours a day. No algae issue with so long a light duration (>12 hours) ?

Nope, no algae problems. There is plenty of CO2 being injected as well as more than enough phosphate being fertilized. The HM and the Rotala's grow so fast that the nutrients just get sucked up like a vacuum. Plus 3 Otto's and cherry shrimp help as well.

I do not dose excel. I feel that if you have enough plants, CO2, and nutrients for the plants then the algae can be controlled very easily by tank inhabitants. I even have to feed my Otto's algae wafers so that they don't starve.

-Ryan

eklikewhoa · 01-03-2007, 11:39 PM

nice layout!

pyramid · 01-04-2007, 02:28 AM

I like the way of your tree growing too much!
The Asian Filter Shrimp is the shrimp i like best...
I saw some Asian Filter Shrimp in Hanoi a few months ago, but the color of them is...green. Very nice.

Wood · 01-05-2007, 11:16 PM

I did some rescaping of the tank. I moved the Ammannia Gracilis to where the Ludwigia glandulosa initially was and traded the glandulosa for some Red Cherry Shrimp. The gladulosa was just too big for my 10 gallon, didn't really fit IMO.

I also took some suggestions and trimmed the HM in a slope to create some perspective. It is kind of hard to see because I recently trimmed it.

I am going to now let the tank start to grow a lot, let it fill in. I have finished scaping it for the time being. I will post updated pictures of the gradual growth.

Take a look at the pics and let me know what you think.

Front

Front Left

Front Right

Limnophila aromatica

Ammannia gracilis

New Cherry Shrimp added 10 minutes before pic.

Asian Filter Shrimp feeding using its filter fans

Blue_Dolphinvn · 01-06-2007, 05:02 PM

The filter shrimp look great!
But I think that your fast growing plants are not suitable for shrimps tank, they need CO2 injected that could harm the baby shrimps if you want to make them breed...you should replace by low growing plant like java moss, anubias, fern, cryps....
cheers,

fish newb · 01-07-2007, 05:39 PM

Nice to see the tank you've been talking about for a while!

CO2 is fine with shrimp don't worry.

-Andrew

GlitcH · 01-09-2007, 08:19 AM

Very nice Ryan........lookin forward to updates.

uttoshii · 01-09-2007, 08:28 AM

nice tank ,haw many watts do you have there?must be quite a lot to get the sp green to crawl on the floor!or is it because of the 14Hours a day?!?