chadly

Thanks chunkylover817

It's no mystery CO2 contributes greatly to plant health and growth, although to achieve them, artificial CO2 injection is not a necessity. I have been doing careful dosing of ferts and have adequate lighting. There are a few more tweeks I'd like to make before I'm somewhat satisfied.

chadly

Squawkbert

More light or some frequent "training" may be needed if you want ground covering instead of vert. glosso.
I like the scape so far.
When you add CO2, you may end up hating the sunset hygro (when it gets to the point you're pulling a pound of it out per week).

chadly

the glosso is def shorter than when I put it in, It's not growing up w/ long stems between the leaves as it is in my low tech 3 gal. I'm thinking it's currently getting a foothold in the substrate, and will blow up soon.

You are right about the hygro. It's getting kind of unmanagable as it is. I do like it though. I may take it out and reuse it in my 75 g w/ lower light intensity and no fert dosing.


thanks for the comments

Here's a pic of the glosso from yesterday. It's not spreading fast or anything but it's not growing tall at all. slight algea prob, but nothing that can't be fixed.

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chadly

after no further delay. I did a little cleaning up and took some new pics.


full tank


anubias nana


Blyxa japonica


peacock moss


Anubias Coffefolia

Genin

the updated FTS looks really sharp. looks like your tank is progressing well.

chadly

Thank Genin. I appreciate the reply.

you wouldn't by chance be the genin from P-fury would you. If so this is traumatic another p-fury OG.

chadly

Since these pics, I trimmed the aromatica, blyxa and of course the hygro. They both grow very fast. I've also added some pelia down in the front left in front of the anubias nana - Where the glosso won't take hold (steenkin fish keep digging it up). I'll have pics when the pelia starts to bounce back.

nationof2

Really liking the Anubias in there... I would focus more on that plant, they look great.

chadly

UPDATE*

After picking up some new plants (thanks Don) I was struggling with what to do next. They didn't fit in where I put them and my crypts have just become megalithic. So, after much comtemplation, I rearranged some plants, and added a bit more gravel. I've concluded that the additions have a nice touch and the changes I made will work well. Now to have some real results in the next week or so is up in the air. I did a higher than usual dose of ferts and excel as well as a normal water change.

the new additions are as follows:

rotala colorata
Heteranthera zosterifolia (stargrass)
elatine tiandra

Basically the move consisted of pushing the crypts back in the left corner where the aromatica was, and shifting the aromatica over closer to the vals. I had intentions on removing the crypts all together, but I have nowhere else to put them atm. The space occupied by the crypts is now full of star grass. I then put the colorata in a neat little spot behind the blyxa. Theres' a small area in front near the glass just to the left of the blyxa that the tiandra is now. I intend on repositioning the anubias nanas a little bit. So far so good.