What are your personal goals with a planted tank?
What are your personal goals with a planted tank?
Lurkers are welcomed to respond. Regards, Tom Barr |
What are your personal goals with a planted tank?
What are your personal goals with a planted tank?
Lurkers are welcomed to respond. Regards, Tom Barr Something that looks good first and foremost and as 'natural' as possible on my limited budget. I'm not a fan of the rather sculpted and artificial Amano style. I like to see some dark places where my Cardinals hang out and I like the look of untidiness you get if you leave (pardon the pun) some plants to get on with it. In the future I'd like to get a tank with more light and try some more difficult (red) plants. -- Graham Ramsay You might be a Bright: www.the-brights.net |
What are your personal goals with a planted tank?
A more balanced and diverse ecosystem, first and foremost. Also a less
maintenance-intensive tank, i.e. low-tech. -- Victor M. Martinez http://www.che.utexas.edu/~martiv |
What are your personal goals with a planted tank?
Making it nice with not too much care ;-) BUT...
It is not a joke but since I add CO2 my H.zosterifolia melt quite often followed by H. corymbosa, L. sessiliflora, D. diandra and G. elantinoides. Root feeding plant seems to resist more. Cryptocoryne and Nymphea are OK. NPK and Fe are rather high. gH is 9 with 1/3 of Mg... Light is 108W fluorescent tubes ! 200 l with 150 l of water CO2 added but perhaps irregularly due to pump clogged As some peat in the filter CO2 too high per normal calculation i.e. pH 6.2 kH 4.5 = 2 bubbles per sec. with 1.5cm x 120 cm opening at the cover and some nice O2 bubbles to make it nice ;-) [to my wife] Changing 5 l every day and bored of doing so ! Adding the Fe + 10 ml TMG That's all, Regards, Philippe " wrote in message om... | What are your personal goals with a planted tank? | Lurkers are welcomed to respond. | Regards, | Tom Barr |
What are your personal goals with a planted tank?
For me, my goals are to give my fish a healthy environment to live and
breed in. It is not even a look thing because there are plenty of fake plants which look nice in a tank, but lack the benefits of live. Live plants help break down waist products and add a food source for when we go out of town. Small fish have a good place to hide and the large fish even seem to feel safer with taller plants. Vicki Visit me on line at http://shamrock4u.250free.com |
What are your personal goals with a planted tank?
" wrote in message om... What are your personal goals with a planted tank? My planted tank functions as living art. I have many beautiful things on display but the planted aquarium is the one thing everyone focuses on. It dominates the living space- as planned. And as art it pleases me immensely- it graces my home with a very soothing and tranquil influence. That it requires some measure of balance and effort to remain tranquil and soothing seems a good lesson. Tomorrow I could have a different answer. g -- Toni http://www.cearbhaill.com/aquarium.htm |
What are your personal goals with a planted tank?
"Toni" wrote in message link.net... My planted tank functions as living art. I have many beautiful things on display but the planted aquarium is the one thing everyone focuses on. It dominates the living space- as planned. And as art it pleases me immensely- it graces my home with a very soothing and tranquil influence. That it requires some measure of balance and effort to remain tranquil and soothing seems a good lesson. OK- so that didn't make any sense in the context of the question. What I kinda sorta meant was that I was learning a lot about life (and I'm 50) from my planted aquarium, and my personal goal is to continue to refine the process on both fronts. -- Toni http://www.cearbhaill.com/aquarium.htm |
What are your personal goals with a planted tank?
" wrote in message om... What are your personal goals with a planted tank? My planted tank functions as living art. I have many beautiful things on display but the planted aquarium is the one thing everyone focuses on. It dominates the living space- as planned. And as art it pleases me immensely- it graces my home with a very soothing and tranquil influence. That it requires some measure of balance and effort to remain tranquil and soothing seems a good lesson. Tomorrow I could have a different answer. g -- Toni http://www.cearbhaill.com/aquarium.htm |
What are your personal goals with a planted tank?
"Toni" wrote in message link.net... My planted tank functions as living art. I have many beautiful things on display but the planted aquarium is the one thing everyone focuses on. It dominates the living space- as planned. And as art it pleases me immensely- it graces my home with a very soothing and tranquil influence. That it requires some measure of balance and effort to remain tranquil and soothing seems a good lesson. OK- so that didn't make any sense in the context of the question. What I kinda sorta meant was that I was learning a lot about life (and I'm 50) from my planted aquarium, and my personal goal is to continue to refine the process on both fronts. -- Toni http://www.cearbhaill.com/aquarium.htm |
What are your personal goals with a planted tank?
As a lady that I know put it one day "I want for people to come to my
house, look at the tank and just stare. Not to look and say "Ahmm... and where's the fish?" A planted tank that is indeed beautiful, really makes people just look, attracts attention, and very much words are not needed. I'd like to be able to set up tanks that I personally want to return and look at. Style, size, plants - they don't really matter. As long as the tank attracts the eyes like a magnet. --Nikolay |
What are your personal goals with a planted tank?
"Philippe Lemaire (remove all D's)" schreef in
bericht e... pH 6.2 kH 4.5 WAY too much CO2 bring the pH up to 6.8 |
What are your personal goals with a planted tank?
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What are your personal goals with a planted tank?
On Wed, 13 Aug 2003 10:29:31 -0700, The Spud wrote:
As trite as it may seem, my goal is to have a nice looking tank. Or maybe since this is my first attempt at live plants, my goal is to not kill any. Scratch that goal off the list. Even the most experienced plant keeper will still kill some plants. Not all plants work in all tanks. Plant a bunch of different ones that you like, and find out which plants do best in your tank. Chuck Gadd http://www.csd.net/~cgadd/aqua |
What are your personal goals with a planted tank?
What are your personal goals with a planted tank? To have a constant (frequent) Pain in the ... But I enjoy it. |
What are your personal goals with a planted tank?
I think it might have something to do with being a little obsessive
compulsive, suffering from a god complex, and having an obsession for complex systems. :-) I would say healthy plants, healthy fish, and an attractive touch of nature for the house are my main goals. Ron " wrote in message om... What are your personal goals with a planted tank? Lurkers are welcomed to respond. Regards, Tom Barr |
What are your personal goals with a planted tank?
Interesting question. At first I wanted something that looked
beautiful, well-designed - and Amano-esque. What I have ended up with is an eclectic mix of plants that grow out of control. Tank looks wild...but natural (if you ignore the fact that these species are from different continents). Sometimes I'm tempted to rip everything out and start again - and stick to a design this time. One goal is to have success with blooming plants. The only thing I've had bloom in the tank is a Madagasgar lace fern. I've planted camboba carolina - but it has never bloomed. Any suggestions for blooming aquatic plants? |
What are your personal goals with a planted tank?
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What are your personal goals with a planted tank?
Well, Initially I wanted a tank that looked like an Amano tank. A wonderful
natural underwater landscape that looked nice, absorbed all the unwanted end-of-line nutrients and required little or no maintenance because all the Nitrate and Phosphate was gone!!!!! - into the plants.....that is. I also wanted a South American only theme for plants and fish. Hence a SA Cichlid environment (not Discus). It did not turn out the way I wanted despite all the high-tech CO2 injection etc. The plants refused to grow despite the 100% flourite substrate - probably due to the lack of light which I cannot change with my setup (3 bulbs max hence 90W over 250L), the algae took over. I reduced the algae only by purchasing plants that would grow. Now I have a planted tank with plants that are not all South American. Some have too much air roots for my liking...It looks a bit scragly with the Hydrocotyl but otherwise its OK. I now have developing a blue green slime on the leaves - suspect its BG algae. The surface also fills up with Blue Green Slime and requires skimming every week or so. So all in all - not the experience I planned for or wanted. |
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