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"Dutch something or the other" 120 Gal

Looking great Tom.
Show us a side by side image of that and your reef for a colour off......:) You dont see too many planted tanks with that sort of vibrancy, it almost glows! The optiwhite is like a neon surround.
Cheerio,
Ady.
 
I did a large hack yesterday and sold most of the cuttings. 500$ a month or there abouts from this tank. Much better than winning any ADA contest.
 
Love how the wood looks like this intricate root system twisting around the scape.

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500 thats crazy.. basically the tank paid for itself over time :clap:

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That's a normal typical month.
The Trithuria, downoi, Tonina or A reineckii each......... can fetch 100-200$ each per good sized replant/trim.
But I only trim those once every 1-2 months.

The problem, it took me 20 years in the plant hobby, 35+ in the aquarium hobby to figure out how to do it:)
 
I have about 50 of the Trithuria blood vomits, they are growing back well after the last uprooting and dividing about 3 weeks ago?
Tank is post trim so the L senegal is whacked way back as are the Rotala mini butterfly, Myrio mini and the R wallichii.
No KNO3 for 6 days last week, the E hydropiper yellowed some, the A reineckii mini had a few holes. Other plants seemed fine though. Low N is not wise.
RCS continue to grow/breed like no tomorrow, the cockeroaches of the tanks.
I redid the A reineckii and the Downoi also.
The Erio type 3 is in the rear right corner, it's really blooming up nicely like it should. It is the canary in the coal mine, a bellweather plant for me. If it does well, then everything else will also. It'll be another 2 months or so I'd say before I can trim and redo the section up to nice standards, but.........that's the way this stuff goes.
The side view shows the S. maderia and the lago grande and the dwarf canuck(you can see the differences between the madiera and the dwarf canuck pretty good now after some growth and recovery).
E hydropiper continues to expand and root well even with a little yellowing.
UG is really hyper dense. Even by my standards, the wood boxed it in. Probably should trim and replant it next week.
The toughest plants for trimming and such:
Tonina, they are not topped. And there are a lot of them.
But they sell well and I have a back list of orders as they grow out.
Not a hard plant to grow...........but a PITA to trim and propagate.
Easy weeds: R mini butter fly, L tornado, Mini milfoil, H araguaia, Blood vomits, downoi, Cuphea, mosses/liverworts.
Fastest growing: R wallichii, R macandra, L sphaerocarpa.




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Tom what rout do you take when propagating downoi, top it or take side shoots?
Cheers

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Trying to think what to do in this bare spot, the shorter Syngonanthus did not feel right as as foreground type plant really. So I removed it and placed it in another tank. So this is all of the S madiera now. Cryptocoryne x willisii 'lucen might be good for that spot on the side.
H. sibthorpioides
Starougyne purple or porto velho would work good also.
The EH is simply too short to add cover and transition. I could add more Riccardia on wood in this spot, or another plant species like, a Crypt, but that will be very similar to the Red Hygro araguaia.
A different shade of green perhaps might work. Hydrocotyle sibthorpides might be good. I want something darker though.
I'm not entirely happy with the Hottonia, but for now..........I'll likely redo that section with something else. Might add Monte Carlo there.


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A couple of weeks later after stuffing the holes I drilled:

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Limnophila wavy guinea and Erio type 3 have come a long way:
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It's time to uproot and divide those Erio compressums.
alastair, yes, Mini Pellia, grows weird in this tank, it's hard, like a scrub brush fiber.
 
Just WoW!

I'm mor a natural kind of guy, but this is just stunning... looks like a painting to my eyes!
 
Post trim, did a fair amount of Erio removal so it's still pretty cloudy:
Things will fill in pretty good this next cycle.
The Erio setaceum type 3 in the rear right corner have come in nicely now.
I had to most doubts about those.

The Erio compressum will fill back in pretty nicely over the next 2-3 months.

Elatine hydropiper will continue to spread and fill in some of the open area before the erios get too big.


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