[bigstick120]

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.

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

 

[Steven_Chong]

Really nice plants man

 

[fredyk]

I would grow the EC in lower light to avoid flowering and promote plant division. Nice looking plants.
Mark

 

[redstrat]

your plants look incredibly healthy!!

 

[bigstick120]

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.

 

[lildark185]

Great tank! Just wondering, what's the red plant in the back and what are your specs?

 

[xcooperx]

Spec of the tank is on the second page, big stick what is the plant on the left tank, the one that looks like L. Aromatica, and is that a L. "Cuba" on the right side? All plants are growing well, i want to have that downoi, maybe i'll get for the next you sale some of them

 

[bigstick120]

The one to the left of the aromatica is Pogo. stellatus, and yes that is Cuba on the right. Thanks for the comments

 

[AaronT]

Looking good Jeff. No wonder it's the GWAPA featured tank.

 

[Avi]

Hey...terrific improvement IMO.

 

[krisw]

I'm a few months late, but I finally came across this thread. The plants look incredibly healthy in here! I'm still amazed at how clear your tanks look when I see them in person. I think they might be the clearest water in GWAPA. All that said, my only suggestion would be the same one that Ghazanfar gave me on my latest 75G picture: Use plants with leaf sizes more suited to the size of the tank. I think your success at growing these plants, might have made them outgrow the aquascape. Between that last picture and this one, the aromatica looks huge!

All in all, hats off to growing a fine looking tank!

 

[fredyk]

This is where it's at, Kris!!!
There's a lot of information, LOTS OF AQUASCAPES, misc. goodies, including user galleries.
shameless plug
http://www.aquaticplantcentral.com/gallery/browseimages.php?c=15&userid=723
Mark

 

[BSS]

Wow! Sweet tank. I love the look of that Ericuloan (sp?) plant...even with the punk, spiked flowering thing going on . Great textures and differing colors. My kinda tank!

 

[cs_gardener]

Nice looking tank, very lush and healthy.

 

[bigstick120]

Thanks for the complements and suggestion! I am gald that you folks enjoy the tank. Kris I get what you are saying and I tried to do that. I at one time had hemigraphlas(sp?) Trian in the right corner where the Cuba is and it looked like total crap! The leaves are huge and just didnt look right at all. The aromatica has a fairly small leaf and one of my favorite plants so it is staying for sure! Any suggestion on what plant I can maybe replace it with?
The Eriocaulon cinereum is still flowering and still shows no sign of spliting, kinda sucks as I would really like more of this in the scape.

 

[xcooperx]

my favorite plant on your scape is the P. Stellatus they grow towards the surface, thats Broad leaf right?

 

[bigstick120]

my favorite plant on your scape is the P. Stellatus they grow towards the surface, thats Broad leaf right?

No, its the regular version

 

[krisw]

The aromatica has a fairly small leaf and one of my favorite plants so it is staying for sure!

Well, I agree that aromatica is one of my favorite plants too. Honestly, it might just be the trimming in the latest picture. The previously pictures make it look more at home.

Any suggestion on what plant I can maybe replace it with?

But as far as a suggestion to replace the l. cuba, what about a rotala species, or something like didiplis diandra? I think the didiplis diandra would complement the stellatus rather nicely.

Of course, none of this should contradict the fact that it's a nice looking tank as is. And admittedly, I'm a bit hypocritical in that my developing scape in the 40G has both aromatica and l. cuba in it!

 

[Stargazer53]

Wow....the colors that you have in that tank is magnificent. Just a great blend of plants and the rasboras and tetras....they just all fit in so well together....almost like their all harmonizing together. Great work.

 

[bigstick120]

Update! Few changes not many though, more Rotala Mac. Green in the left corner, got a new camera so I have been taking a few photos. Canon Rebel XTi, I have lots to learn to hang with some of the folks around here! Hopefully Santa will bring me a macro lens, Im thinking Canon 100mm or a Sigma 105, I'll be happy with whatever Santa brings!

Playing with my new toy

Picked these guys up today! I got 6, I have bees in this tank as well so we'll see how that works out. These were a STEAL so I couldn't pass them up! I was holding the bag so I got some camera shake.