Muirner

braty- you can use Soil Master Select, which is like the stuff used on baseball fields. It doesn't break down into mush and is inert unless you fertilize the water that you pre-soak the SMS in.

foofooree

i have heard that that stuff is very light, its like charcoal or something isnt it?

BruceWatts

It looks like you have buried some of the rhizomes. If that is the case then the anubias plants will rot. As to the substrate, it doesn't really matter what it is or even if you use none at all as the anubias will grow attached to wood or rocks.
I can't understrand why anyone would use kitty litter in their planted tank. For Anubias you would have been better off using 2mm gravel.

Bruce

foofooree

ha, ya, none of the rhizomes have been buried, and as for the substrate, it is an experiment and I will add different plants in time, it is in the works for now

foofooree

well, i got tired of how this was looking so i moved all the nubias to my 20 gal that i put eco complete in, and the anubias are pearling

foofooree

heres my new anubias garden, looks much better if you ask me

i got some nana petite thanks to the great generosity of neon shrim, thanks again man!

foofooree

sorry for the bad glare, and no thats not algae in the top left corner, i added 5 amano shrimp today so i now have eight in there, i also have tons of red cherry shrimp (which look much better in the 75 degree water and over the dark subs. than they did over the white sand) and i have 1 red oto

foofooree

some new pics:
what is the plant this shrimp is holding? some kind of liverwort? its not a decaying leaf, because mini "sprouts" are coming out of it, and its not watersprite either.

AzJim

I realize you made this post quite awhile ago, but I never saw an answer to your question. If you haven't identified this yet, I'm fairly certain that is a piece of riccia she is holding.

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Jim

foofooree

just seeing if this works