Journal: beginner 10g planted tank

[FishGeek]

CANT WAIT TO SEE PICS!!! (Im jealous though cause your thread is longer than both of mine LOL)

[alter40]

Originally Posted by FishGeek

CANT WAIT TO SEE PICS!!! (Im jealous though cause your thread is longer than both of mine LOL)

Well I just post updates all the time (plus I have to catch up to you and BV somehow )

[d3sc3n7]

Yeah, go get those plants..and while your at it...GET THAT CHICKEN! Make that woman dinner!

[alter40]

I will go get some plants and maybe some chicken for her

Thanks PITA

[d3sc3n7]

See...here is how today goes. You go out to get the plants. She's probably getting tired of the tank already, so shes a bit annoyed. However, while you are out, you pick up everything you need for dinner. Spend you day like normal, then make her dinner. All is better now!

[RoxnSox]

i love how PITA tells you how to do things for your woman when he cant even do things for his

[alter40]

Alright so I finally got some plants now . I couldn't find many of the plants I was looking for but I got some to try and see how they do. I got 3 crypts of some kind. A couple of bunches of money wort and a bunch of wisteria. After looking these up I don't know if they will do well with my current lighting but we will see.

Both of the LFSs were out of neon tetras so I decided I would rather get those at another LFS rather then Walmart . The one LFS did have some very nice pieces of malaysian driftwood as well so I picked up a nice piece of this as well.

I did try to put the plants in the substrate but can't get them to want to stay in there so any help there would be great too

Ok now for some pics of how I have things at the moment.

Here are the plants just kind floating around for now.


The piece of driftwood.


And one last picture of the piece of wood.

[d3sc3n7]

Your getting pretty lucky with driftwood pieces. They are both really nice pieces! Glad to see you finally got your plants. Now to just tie em down somehow. I'd say start soaking that wood, but I'm sure you already are.

[alter40]

That is actually one piece of wood just setting different ways. I just started soaking it in a bucket. I plan on putting it in my tank in a similar fashion to the bottom picture with the bottom of the wood buried in the substrate and the part that is sticking up in the picture going at about a 45 degree angle.

As far as my plants go, the crypts appear to have some a root system going at the moment so they might stay in the substrate on their own. The wisteria and moneywort won't stay down in the substrate so I think I will break apart on of my larger rocks with a hammer and tie them off to the small pieces of rock till they start growing some roots down into the substrate.

[sweetpickles7]

What i do is dig a little hole place the end into the bottom of the hole and then cover up but i almost make like a hill almost after im done. That will hold them in there and when the roots have grown u can rearrange the substrate so there arent hills on every plant.