cs_gardener

I'm glad you were able to get your tank back without any trouble. It certainly has cleared up nicely and it's rather appealing in a chaotic sort of way. I'm looking forward to seeing what you do with it.

p.s. I just love the look you caught on your cat's face. My cats give me that look all the time when I'm not doing what the want me to do.

Jessie

Thank you Catherine! It is sort of nice to look at. Especially seeing all the fish happy again. They missed their mom, I'm sure of it :P

Kazoo, the kitty, is hilarious. I named him Kazoo because he doesn't have a regular "kitty voice" it's very raspy and sounds relatively deranged most of the time. A friend of mine believes that power he holds in his "jazz hands" can slice cheese just by pointing at it. Such a goof!

Jessie

Hi everyone!!

Today I received two wonderfully packaged shipments. One from DJKronik57, who sent me a generous helping of Blyxa japonica, sunset H. polysperma and a nice clump of Christmass moss. The other, from houseofcards who sent two heaping portions of HC.

I must say, I now have a new respect for those w/ HC in their tanks. After planting a 6-foot long span of it, I must say that is the most aggrivating, tedious and beer-inducing task I've experienced in a long time! AND, tying moss onto branches. I have skinny little girl fingers and that was a PAIN.

I also arranged the Manzanita. It's not completely sunk, but I've managed to strategically position some rocks to keep it down until it can sit on it's own.

Pics!

The tank is still a little cloudy from tearing things apart.


Right side. Please ignore the obnoxios sea-monstor branch. That will be repositioned once it's not so damn buoyant.


Left of the tank. This is after I became very impatient with the HC and planted larger and larger clumps, haha.


Center of the tank, Uhoh, sad face. A clump of HC uprooted and floated up.


Quick little shot near the center with Alternanthera, Didiplis, and other mess.


Full tank shot.

Nothing is final... but it's getting there!!

mikenas102

Jessie, I feel your pain. I'm also going through the "I am Manzanita, see me float" period. It's been almost 2 weeks that I've been holding some down with rocks and there is a big improvement. If I take the rocks off it doesn't float but doesn't sink like an anchor either. It kind of just bounces around the bottom like an astronaut on the moon. I figure another week I'll be good. Keep the CO2 cranking so you don't get discouraging algae issues while you're in transition.
Nice to see a hottie into aquascaping

slickwillislim

6ft of HC... I planted my 4ft tank a few times with glosso and recently with hc so I can imagine the struggle. I have seen Jsenske plant large clumps like that in aquasoil so your method is certainly easier then smaller clumps and your in good company.

Lets hope the rest of your HC stays in the soil. I have Soil master select in one tank and HC just loves to float out of that stuff. Aquasoil tends to hold my HC better so thats good for you.

I looked through your other thread on your old tank and can't wait to see it return and exceed its former glory.

I love big tanks. I will have to get one some day.

Steven_Chong

I'm impressed with your resolve/effort and the shape of the scape thus far-- I think you will eventually have a really great 'scape on your hands.

Chuppy

Your tank is turning out to be great... Nice job

mikenas102

Did I miss something? Where is the link to the old setup of the tank?

slickwillislim

http://www.aquaticplantcentral.com/f...sies-125g.html

The sn "Jessie" and 125g sounded familiar so I searched posts by Jessie and I found her thread. I had seen it before but not commented. There aren't that many large well planted tanks on APC so I remembered this one.

mikenas102

Thanks for the link. I can't believe the growth in that tank with just an occasional splash of ferts. And just micros. I think that tank is solid evidence of how good root tabs are and how using them really cuts down on the need for water column dosing.