plantnoobdude
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my wording was a bit unclear, yes k2aqua and buce uk, are retailers, and id recommend hobbyists anyday over retailer
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The Nymph's Spring (EA900)
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I went up to Wild Woods today to collect the plants I'd ordered on Friday. They look fantastic! If WW appear to have run out of something you want, it's always worth asking as they have more plants both in the quarantine room and another storage room. ( I will post pics of my tank one day but it looks a bit sad compared to most as it's scaped by clown loaches!)
Hurrah! What did you get?
I haven't had time to post them today, but I got my plants this morning and they are fantastic quality as usual. The microsorum sunrise is a fabulous plant that I've put right in the middle and it just... Works. I realised as I was planting the new ones that all the plants I've bought from there really stand out for being unusual and beautiful, Dan really knows how to source and pick a good plant!! They all go together though somehow, I think all that time spent being dragged around gardens as a kid had finally paid off 😂 What I really love is that most of the plants I bought from them would thrive in lowtech as well as high-tech, and have all sorts of lovely colours and textures.
For example the three floaters I bought from there last time are growing well and all look unique - the soft turquoise pinnate aeschynomene with yellow flowers, the ludwigia with its fat white advantageous bouy roots, the poppy with it's long stems and glossy oval leaves.
I've heard they're getting even more interesting plants that haven't been seen for a while in over the next few weeks (as well as more of the stuff they immediately ran out of this weekend), looking forward to see what else they can rustle up for me to squeeze in! 😂
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KirstyF
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I think your tank and Hermione’s magic beaded bag have a lot in common! 😂
@shangman
I got a stunning Echinodorus with spots but I've forgotten what it's called. It's loach proof so far! And a Microsorum sunrise too - just beautiful. I also got Blyxa jap. Ludwigia mini red and a couple of other things which, if not chomped on or squashed, may grow enough to make me hopeful and then gradually fade away. I need (want!) to get a dedicated plant tank, a sensible depth so light reaches the bottom, with well behaved fish so I can grow plants properly!
I got a stunning Echinodorus with spots but I've forgotten what it's called. It's loach proof so far! And a Microsorum sunrise too - just beautiful. I also got Blyxa jap. Ludwigia mini red and a couple of other things which, if not chomped on or squashed, may grow enough to make me hopeful and then gradually fade away. I need (want!) to get a dedicated plant tank, a sensible depth so light reaches the bottom, with well behaved fish so I can grow plants properly!
I still haven't had time to add most of my recent plant purchases, been a very busy week! Hoping I'll have a bit of time on Tuesday afternoon though, where I'll also be replacing my red lava stone with jade stone I picked up at Aquarium gardens last week. It wasn't very expensive since I just need small bits. The red lava stone I always intended to be covered in plants, but the plants I've tried refuse to cover it how I wanted so I'm replacing them with this jade stone, which is apparently inert and comes pre-algaed as it's so green. You can see it in the front of the FTS, I added a bit to see the true colour. Looking forward to giving the front of the tank a lil facelift with this and finally planting my new plants 🙂 The one plant I have added is the microsorum "sunrise" and it's soooo nice, I'm a big fan!
Very good choices! They have some great echinodorus there, I've got my eye on their echinodorus macrophyllus after spotting it in one of @taistrietman's tanks last week. When I googled it wasn't that interesting but irl it looks fab.
It's definitely worth getting another tank when all these lovely plants are available to fill it with!! No plecos allowed 😂
Welp, there's Ich in the tank. Just one or two dots on a few fish but it looks it to me. That's it for my stocking hubris, time to treat it and then catch some fish and give away. Not really sure where it came from, since I added the pencils a month ago, I would've thought it would appear sooner but there we are! Some friends have assured me that this is not too bad to treat, so I will start with the esha exit tomorrow.
It’s not too bad if the fish are healthy and you keep on top of it. You hear of horror stories but normally it’s very treatable. Keep up gravel vacuuming and water changes as you undertake the treatment. I’d also bump up your temperature, helps speed up the lifecycle of the parasite.
Cheers
I'm hoping catching it early will make it ok, I've never had it before so it's kinda scary and I feel bad for my fishies but will do what I can. I'm gonna do a big waterchange and gravel vac before and after, as well as increase the temp. What do you raise it to? The storm had acted in my favour for this and I have lots of rainwater luckily.
Super bad timing, I've got an interview at a place I really want to work for tomorrow and now all I can think about is healing the fish 😱 at least that's got rid of some of the anxiety of that I guess!
Could raise it to around 30 however I’m not sure how that will affect the plants you have. Hopefully someone with more experience with plants will chime in.
It's my birthday today, which marks one year of owning this tank and starting this journal! 😀
Today I was chatting on the phone for ages while looking at the tank, it's looking really nice ATM so will take some photos tomorrow. I've added in the jade stone and I love that, and I do think the new ferts regime is doing something, it feels like plants are slowly becoming bigger and more luscious.
Also I treated the tank for ich with Esha Exit and it seems to have worked! Very interesting, I thought it would be an awful task but it's been ok, hopefully it doesn't return.
Today I was chatting on the phone for ages while looking at the tank, it's looking really nice ATM so will take some photos tomorrow. I've added in the jade stone and I love that, and I do think the new ferts regime is doing something, it feels like plants are slowly becoming bigger and more luscious.
Also I treated the tank for ich with Esha Exit and it seems to have worked! Very interesting, I thought it would be an awful task but it's been ok, hopefully it doesn't return.
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plantnoobdude
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I'm curious! any more details on ppm numbers?
I'm gonna be honest I have no idea lmao, it's a recipe from @LondonDragon whose tank is fabulously luscious, and which contains a lot of potassium which my plants were apparently deficient in so I thought sounds like a good idea to try! It's only been 2 weeks though so I'm only seeing it in the fastest growing plants, but some fast growing plants leaves have suddenly gone massive, in trimming like mad.
Happy birthday! 🥳🎉 😀
plantnoobdude
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completely missed that part lol.
Happy Birthday!
Love it
I imagined you were like "yes birthday ok but what are your PPM's Rosie??"
LondonDragon
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Glad that is working for you also 😉 I use K2SO4 to bump up the K without increasing the NO3!! I find high levels of NO3 are no good for ferns!
congrats on the anniversary and birthday, all the best 🙂
plantnoobdude
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how much? Im dosing 2ppm k weekly in my high tech and haven't found any issues with it.
