25 litre tree scape

[tim]

Any hygrophila pinnatifida in there Tim? Could look quite nice behind the stumps.
Love the texture of it.

Not had much luck with it tbh, may try and pick some up from my local p@h on delivery day.

 

[Nathaniel Whiteside]

I've never tried it. Is it co2 heavy? Or funny with ferts?

 

[Alastair]

Ive grown it low tech and it did great. .ive heard some people have kept it well and others not. Mine were 1 2 gro though so had adapted to low tech instantly

 

[Nathaniel Whiteside]

Really? I hadn't seen they did it in 1-2 grow! Might have a go in my Dry start!

 

[tim]

I've only used the aquafleur variety, always seems huge compared to the tropica pots, leaves have always dropped off leaving bear stems so I always binned it, mind I haven't tried any for a year or so.

 

[Alastair]

Really? I hadn't seen they did it in 1-2 grow! Might have a go in my Dry start!

Yes mate. Cant remember if it was one of eds (freshwater shrimp) invitro pots or tropicas. One of them anyway and they bloomed

 

[Nathaniel Whiteside]

I've only used the aquafleur variety, always seems huge compared to the tropica pots, leaves have always dropped off leaving bear stems so I always binned it, mind I haven't tried any for a year or so.

I thought this was common mate? Then they pushed out submersed leaves? Might be wrong lol.

 

[tim]

I thought this was common mate? Then they pushed out submersed leaves? Might be wrong lol.

True mate, but 8 inch stems with no leaves looked s*** so out they came

 

[tim]

5 days in daily waterchanges paying off plants are settling well, little fungus on the wood even though it was soaked and scrubbed daily with fresh water for two weeks, nothing too bad. Substrate and filter was mature so I'll add the blue shrimp in later today. I'll get some pics up this evening.

 

[aliclarke86]

Nice one dynanomo this is another beauty

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[tim]

Not much change in 5 days stems maybe grown a little

No issues as yet other than the little fungus shrimp and water changes should see this off.
Thanks for looking.

 

[Ady34]

Lovely again Tim. Will only get better when the stems show through more too
Cheerio
Ady

 

[tim]

Lovely again Tim. Will only get better when the stems show through more too
Cheerio
Ady

Thanks Ady

 

[ourmanflint]

Really amazing! Those red stemmed plants really make the whole thing come alive

 

[tim]

Really amazing! Those red stemmed plants really make the whole thing come alive

Thanks mate, just gotta get them to bush out well behind the trees.

 

[tim]

Added some pinatidifida today and some crypt willisi for some different textures around the trees, the pinna was in quite bad shape, removed a lot of leaves and brown roots hopefully it'll take well.

 

[Alastair]

Good luck on the wilisii mate. Ive had roughly 20 pots worth in my biggie and they've done absolutely nothing. Even with root tabs.
C.parva is supposed to be even harder than this yet ive got that stuff slowly sending out leaves

 

[tim]

Good luck on the wilisii mate. Ive had roughly 20 pots worth in my biggie and they've done absolutely nothing. Even with root tabs.
C.parva is supposed to be even harder than this yet ive got that stuff slowly sending out leaves

Yeah I've found it really slow to get going in the past, can be a bit of an algae magnet too. Small tank like this though two new leaves and it'll look fully grown

 

[tim]

Two weeks since setup it all seems to be ticking along nicely (for a change)

I phone pic with a back light.

 

[aliclarke86]

Lovely purple hue with the backlight, looks magical!

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