LightingBamboozled
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Been a while. Some changes. Added two Rotala's (Macandra and Indica I think) which are establishing well. I'm trimming the other stems heavily to avoid them getting overshadowed as they grow in. One of the macandra stems isn't producing large leaves but the rest look good to me.
Vallis got a heavy trim late August and took a couple of months to recover but it's starting to grow out well now. The Dwarf Sag has completely dominated the eleocharis. and is actually a bit of a pain to maintain at the moment, catching all the trimming s when I mow it, although the cherry srimp love it as their main residence. The smaller Marsilea on the far left got overshadowed by java fern and being under the floating plants and isn't doing to well but the larger marsilea is holding its own and carpeting nicely. The transplanted Crinum is growing like wildfire, but the parent it was transplanted from is struggling. I'd quite like a third dead centre but am holding off adding anything new at the moment.
I've added more floating plants (bulking out the Salvinia and adding red root floater) very recently so am waiting to see the balance that establishes between the three species.
The only minor bugbear right now is I can tell the tank would be growing better with more CO2 but I'm at the limit of the trickle noise I can stand from the reactor. I'm getting tempted to build a long horizontal reactor and strap it to the back of the tank. That being said, the plants are producing enough oxygen that the tank looks bubbly from time to time.
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Vallis got a heavy trim late August and took a couple of months to recover but it's starting to grow out well now. The Dwarf Sag has completely dominated the eleocharis. and is actually a bit of a pain to maintain at the moment, catching all the trimming s when I mow it, although the cherry srimp love it as their main residence. The smaller Marsilea on the far left got overshadowed by java fern and being under the floating plants and isn't doing to well but the larger marsilea is holding its own and carpeting nicely. The transplanted Crinum is growing like wildfire, but the parent it was transplanted from is struggling. I'd quite like a third dead centre but am holding off adding anything new at the moment.
I've added more floating plants (bulking out the Salvinia and adding red root floater) very recently so am waiting to see the balance that establishes between the three species.
The only minor bugbear right now is I can tell the tank would be growing better with more CO2 but I'm at the limit of the trickle noise I can stand from the reactor. I'm getting tempted to build a long horizontal reactor and strap it to the back of the tank. That being said, the plants are producing enough oxygen that the tank looks bubbly from time to time.
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