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My first attempt - The road to nowhere

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morgante

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Here it is


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The tank is an AquaEl Shrimp set 20, because I'd like to add some red cherry or red chrystal in the future.
I'm going to plant some HC in dry start and then...I don't know what to put in the back. Vallisneria, hairgrass, rotala, bacopa, echinodorus...
Let me know your suggestion.
I'm not going to add CO2 (if not extremely necessary).

Thanks
 
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Now it's time for an almost dry start with HC.
I've lifted a bit the back rock.
Waiting for some advice...
 
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And flooded...

I've bought two plants without knowing what exactly are: I think a Bacopa and a Cryptocorine; are them?
 
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And finally, after plants are grown (quite quickly...), here they are:

10 Amano shrimp
5 Corydoras panda
5 endler (2 m 3 f)
 
Five Panda Corys might be a bit much if they're true Pandas and not one of the dwarf cory species - i used the sae tank as a temporary home for ONE bronze cory and it was a bit small for him. If you're having shrimp n there anyway you don't really need any bottom grazers. Hardscape looks lovely but you might have issues growing HC without C02 (never grown it myself - just what they say on here!). On the plus side if you use the venturi on the supplied filter as your CO2 intake you actualy get pretty good gas distribution without having to invest in a diffuser!
Hope this helps,
Matte
 
I wouldn't call those friend's Some Chinese snail but I don't remember the name. Plant Eaters.
 
And this?

It's like half a quail egg small like a rice grain

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Can you help me?

Thanks
 
hi,

does it have a shell? the pic is not great but it appears (to me) like a small freshwater limpet. If correct, they usually crawl on the glass grazing on algae. They should not be a problem to plants.

G
 
Looks to me like a baby snail.
 
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