my very humble planted tank
 

Dear Fellow planted tank fanatics

this is my first planted tank in a long while. first since i graduated from primary school at least. please tell me what you think. it was only set up on monday. sorry for the very poorly taken photo. i was thinking of adding a red lotus, is it advisable? what plants should i add? any comments to layout? thank you very much for the help. all comments are welcome, both good and bad. fish have not been added. still thinking about what to add. will do so sometime next week.

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y19...n29may2006.jpg



Special Thanks to

Eagle for the sand
Carlfsk for the CO2 system
mum and dad for supporting the hobby and allowing me a big tank at home

-ff-

more plants and more plants..(prevent algae outbreak)
suggest you install an external filter(thoe one you using now will not statisfy for the long run)

are you using any base fert, dosing any liquid fert?

dosing liquid fert. just added 3 lotus today. will add more plants soon. will put in fert. stick or balls tmr or something.

alright... an update... i added more plants... please feel free to comment!! thank you to all the people onthis forum who've helped me! btw.. QN- how do you propegate Java Moss?

Before
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y19...6resized-1.jpg

After
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y19...er2resized.jpg

putting more plants is always a good thing when 1st setting up.
one immediate problem to rectify is that your substrate is too thin.
you need another inch or 2.
some of the plants you used have pretty long roots.
also you don't want fert leech from the base fert or root monsters do you?
great try, keep it up :)

take car of those lotus .... they will be big in future blocking all the lights to the plant below..

ok, thank you very much! inside there is 30kg of lapis sand. do you think another 20 kg will do the tricK?

okie!! i will!! what can i do when it grows big?

since u got a few different looking rocks, maybe by growing some moss on them will make them look more uniform and more natural. Just a thought

get another 2 bags of lapis (ard 45kg total).
leftover can use for small shrimp tank :D

as for the lotus, if you want it to remain low, always cut it before it reaches the water surface. after a while, the new leaves will "learn" not to grow so high.