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It's nice to see you gradually moving in an 'all-natural' direction on this setup.
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Thanks BV. My heart has always lied with natural looking/feeling tanks. The plastic plants had always been a temporary idea, I just didn't realize how temporary they would be :P.
Tonight I cleaned the glass cover on top of the tank so more light gets through as well as wrapped tinfoil behind the light- my light housing had no reflector, just white plastic. Figured some reflection was better than none
Aquascaping Plans: The jungle val. will be left to grow to the height of the water, then I will trim it to about 2/3-3/4 that. The cabomba will be kept at 1/2 the height of water. Once it reaches 1/2 height I will take it and then split the stem in half and replant it (so I will have two 1/4 height stems). The fern in the back left corner I will just be letting grow all of it's own accord (I don't know how tall it will get but I don't think it will get taller than my tank any time soon :P). The anubias I will leave to take over the front right corner of the tank as well as the area the plastic plant is using (that will obviously be a while yet). Finally, the java moss will be kept trimmed to be just as it is plus the area that the plastic plant is using- meaning short and flat.
Note: that spot at the front in the middle will be left unplanted/undecorated in order to allow my fish to easily eat the odd sinking pellet I put in the tank.
Questions:
> Does my aquascaping plan sound good or do you think it will look bad or be too hard?
> Do I need any sort of cave or anything for my shrimp to molt if I have all these plants? I figured he would feel safe enough among the jungle vals, but should i still give him something better?
UPDATE: I removed the remaining plastic plants (all but the log are now gone). I saw that none of my fry were even using them as they are too big for the holes it provided, and when I removed them there as a TONNE of old food and poo and other detritus caught under them, so I did a little water change to suck some of it up and remove it. It was gross :S. So now I have an al planted tank except for on eplastic ornament which will be removed eventually.