[gasteriaphile]

Hmmm...
I thought my 4 gallon was small! These tanks y'all have been talking about are even smaller and yet you have Endler's, lots of shrimp. My LFS owner told me not to put in that many animals. So all I have is one betta although I am going to try some cherry shrimp.

The plants in my 4 gallon (it's a Finnex by the way, much nicer than PetSmart/Petco) have not done well at all. Yet yours seem to be doing fine. Are you fertilizing? Or does the quartz gravel have fertilzer "built in"?

Here's my aquarium. The plants are, left to right:
Riccia fluitans (happy)
Bacopa caroliniana (UNhappy)
Java Moss - not sure of binomial - (has filamentous alga)
Sagittaria subulata (UNhappy)

I have not fertilized yet. Have not tested for ammonia, nitrites and nitrates yet.

Light came with the Finnex unit and is compact fluorescent 13 watts.

Fish: Betta splendens

 

[gasteriaphile]

gasteriaphile: Try adding more water so it touches the bottom of the filter output. Less surface disturbance = more CO2 for the plants. Maybe get better lighting too, but first just raise the water level a bit.

Hi Chris and thanks for your input. The water level is as it is because on the side of the filter, Finnex has a water level indicated for the tank. So I am going with what the equipment says for me to do. The whole setup is Finnex - they're sweet little setups, esp. for the betta enthusiast, but as y'all know, little aquaria are tough to get balanced. Mine is all out of whack and I'm going to completely re-do it. Breck