Today I'm able to cruise over to the LFS and get some more plants for my 29g. I have a 15W 8,000K Aqueon bulb as well as an 18W florasun by zoomed that is 5,000K. So far I have a red wedntii, some dwarf sag in the front, regular babytears, some vallisneria, and lastly a moneywort I believe. Anyone have any suggestions that would go well in this tank? I'm also thinking about adding a black background, I like how many of your tanks look with it. My only concern is that the black will accent some calcium deposits on the aquarium. I got it used, and I cleaned it as best I could but there is still some on there that I couldn't get off. Any tips on that one as well? Thanks again!
Very nice! And I agree I think that would look double good if you put some normal black window tint on the back of it; helps make the plants stick out more.
I'd also get smaller plants to add there now; something like narrowleaf chain sword; maybe different colored Crypts to your red one there or small swords....thing like that
A suggestion on the background, if the deposits show up as you mention; try brown paper, like a plain paper bag cut apart. Black will of course make white stains more procounced, brown will not. And the brown colour of paper bags will be neutral. An inexpensive test to see if it is better.
Well I didn't see that tip before I bought stuff so I went with black. I ended up adding some hygrophila, water sprite, and more dwarf sag to fill in some areas. I'm going to see how that grows in before adding more! Finally starting to look like an aquarium :-D
What a difference. That looks much nicer; your plants look better too. Black is good; my brown suggestion was only because of your concern over the "stains" but I can't see any. And, as those plants grow, you will not notice anything except the beautiful plants and fish; backgrounds tend to "disappear" and plain black works best at that. Nice work. Byron.
Looks nice. That's a crazy looking piece of dw. If it were mine I'd name it driftosaurus. The end of it that is elevated looks like some kind or "saurus" lol
Nope it's not that one, that's duckweed but it's also in the Lemna family (Lemna minor). It's actually the smallest flowering plant in the world! The one I have doesn't have any roots at all and looks quite like Lemna triscula. Here's a stock photo of what that looks like, next time I'm digging around in my aquarium I'll find it and take a picture
EDIT: It's also spelled Lemna trisulca, but for some reason at work we always spell it differently. The common name is star duckweed
That's quite attractive. I've never seen this species in stores, must keep a lookout for it. I'd like to see it "live". According to Rataj & Horeman and Hiscock--and few know aquarium plants better than these three botanists--the correct name is Lemna trisulca. Perhaps you could educate your store folks.
Well actually I do aquatic plant surveys on lakes in my area for my job so that's where I always see it. I just have to laugh at myself since apparently I have been spelling it wrong on reports for months now and haven't noticed! Here's a few pics of it in and out of my tank, sorry for the bad pictures I haven't figured out how to take good tank pics yet! I don't think the plant I have here is L. trisulca, but it does look quite similar.
I can only send a big YES..... I was miss-leaded by the name earlier on and thought of the FINE duckweed....until I saw the pic...I somehow had gotten that stuff in one my tanks once (I assumed I carried it in not knowing on another plant) and that stuff TOOK OVER that made duckweed seem harmless. While it initally looked 'pretty' to me it just grew & covered everything so fast that even the weekly 'scoop out' like I'd do with duckweed wouldn't control it well any more and I eventually seriously cleaned my tank off of any & all lil specs of that stuff and tossed it for the birds :lol:
I haven't seen it on SA before, but any pond supply store would carry it, its a favorite food of waterfowl that's where it gets its name. Check for either duckweed, lesser duckweed, or Lemna minor. Here's one site I found it at. Duckweed Lemna minor
Thank you. I actually have a local pond place by me. I'll have to see if they carry it. Thanks!
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