My Plant Journal

[Smalltank3]

Thanks ZenGoalie!

 

[Smalltank3]

4-25-06: Microsword
I bought some microsword at the lfs on sunday. A lot of people said to get dwarf sag for the growth and some people said get microsword for the looks. I wanted a nice looking carpet plant so I got microsword. Here are the pics:
Full tank:

Microswords:

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[jumpfreak26]

Loks nice, those micro sword should cover up your floor fairly well, when you start having an abundance, you shoudl let me know and maybe ill buy some from you, its super hard to find around here

 

[Smalltank3]

Ya I know I looked every where and finally my lfs got a shipment of it so I bought it right away. Your 29g is coming along very nice!

 

[jumpfreak26]

Not sure if youmentioned it, but how many WPG do you have as of now?

 

[Smalltank3]

I don't think I did either. Right now I have 15 watts so 1.5wpg. When this bulb burns out like my other one did, I'll get a 20 watt bulb.

 

[Sebastiandacrab]

very nice tank you have there smalltank3

 

[Smalltank3]

thanks sebastianandacrab. My micro sword is sending runners and my ambulia needs another trim. I am glad my plants are growing.

 

[Smalltank3]

Major Trim

4-30-06: Ambulia Trim
Hey guys, I just trim my ambulia to about 3 inches on each stalk about 3 days ago. Its already about 6 inches so it doubled its size All my plants are really healthy and I'm glad about that. I've read that you need very high light for micro sword to grow but I only have 1.5wpg and it's sending out some runners already! Stocking is 4 Mickey Mouse Platies 1 German Blue Ram and 2 Sailfin Mollies. Here is the pic:

Comments Welcome!

 

[GeraldTheMouse]

Nice tank you got there, I'm going to probably order my first plant for my tank, a java fern. I hope my tank turns out like yours.

 

[Smalltank3]

Thanks Gerald, thats cool that your just starting live plants for the first time. Good Luck!

 

[GeraldTheMouse]

Yeah, right now I only have 3 plastic plants, and some fish.

 

[Sebastiandacrab]

aww you took away your pic i liked that blue ram nice tank

 

[Smalltank3]

Oh, my avatar. I couldn't get a good one of my ram so I took one of my frog. Thanks for the comments

 

[Smalltank3]

Well, I thought I would update you guys with my tank. I know this update is short from the last one but you will see why I updated. My Ambulia is just growing really fast. Look at the picture in the 4-30 update then look at this one. It is really different. I also have new anacharis plants popping out of the ones I bought. i have 3 of them. In four days this is what happened. Here are the pics:

Anacharis New Growth

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[Sebastiandacrab]

that looks alot better

 

[Smalltank3]

Well, my ambulia has grown very long which it was curled at the top of my water. Both sides were like that, so I trimmed them both. I haven't updated on this for awhile so I have pics
Anyway, if you've noticed, I have my 10g planted in the rate my tank forum. That is just for comments and whatever you guys think I should do to make my tank better in your opinion. This thread is to record all the things I've done to my tank and the growth of my plants. I have the rasboras in there temporary until my brother's fry grow up. Here are the pics:
Full Tank:

Anacharis and its new growth stems:

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[Fish Friend]

looks great! everything is coming on well now!
cant wait to see what it looks like once everything has grown and youve finished planting it.

 

[Shady Milkman]

I just started my planted tank about a week ago. This thread will serve as inspiration to me. It looks great!

 

[Smalltank3]

Update everyone!
First of all, thanks for the comments
So a couple days ago I moved my anacharis to the right side in front of the wisteria. I broke up the bunches of ambulia and planted the stalks indvidually all across the back part of the tank. I also added a female German Blue Ram today to hopefully success in breeding rams Here are the pics!
Full tank:

Female German Blue Ram: