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Excellent Video. Full plant details with names, your reasoning articulated, general techniques displayed, and excellent general tips such as indicator plants. This whole Tropica series is excellent in it's quality of both tanks and video instruction.
I've been keeping fish for several years, and have been really struggling to transition into the live plant side of fish keeping. I want to make my fairly bare 40 gallon tank into a planted community tank stocked mainly with glass catfish. I've been trying to find what plants grow well in my tank (it has a nicrew planted tank light atm) any suggestions for plants that will fill in all the bare space?
Have you done it yet? Some great plants that are easy to care for & hardy include: hornwort, pearlweed (heminathus micranthemoides), java moss, java fern, bucephalandra, anubias, hygrophila 53b, crypts. Crypts melt initially but when they grow back they are really good. Java moss can take over a tank quite quickly so be careful if you use it
Hi Jennifer, it's recommended and it will make a difference for some plants but not a must just because you have soil. Check out tropica.com/en/plant-care/
With enough time, light, nutrients, and co2, that crypt undulata red will get huge. Mine is about 10" tall and operates as a background plant in a 40 breeder tank. Much larger than what the information says. Realistically, it's turned into a super clump of a lot of individual plants via runners.
Looks decent, although could be improved by flipping the triangular composition, tapering down from left to right so the corner filter unit was less visible. Keep up the good work
Beautiful! I have a 125 and water change 25% every 5 days. Do I put about 10 pumps of fertilizer in every day or every 5. No co2 in my tank. Just not sure how much to put in🌿👍
We often see dosing I instructions for the first weeks/months of a scape, but I'd like to know what are the options in a long term established scape. For example, is it a good idea to transition to lean dosing (e.g 1 squirt of TSN instead of 3, or switch to TPN) so that you have less trimming to do ? Will it trigger algae if plants are starved?
That's a very good subject to tackle; unfortunately it is nearly impossible to create a standard for a successful aquarium as parameters vary from tank to tank: plants, water quality, hardscape, soil and many other factors add up to the tailored recipe blend. You have to experiment and find the best fit for your setup. We monitor and adapt on an almost weekly basis to the conditions of the tank; in terms of starving, some plants deal well with it, others might start showing signs of melting.
