Progression of Nightster's planted 30 long

[sunkenmetal]

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looks good what plants do you have in there....?

[nightster]

looks good what plants do you have in there....?

I have no idea. Pretty soon I'm gonna take it apart and redo it...

[Totenkampf]

looking good! i can see how they are growing to the middle as you noticed. some people like that and work that into their scape but you might even try adding another fixture or running T5 along with it to even out the light distribution.

as far as the plants wanting to sway, thats not a bad thing sometimes. if you dont have enough current moving water around the plants then they cannot take advantage of nutirents in the water column as well. that is a parameter i am playing with right now. i used to use one canister filter with a powerhead that came on with a timer to move the water for brief periods but now i am using two canisters and playing around with the intake and return placements.

[nightster]

Didn't realize how many shrimp I have. Its getting crazy lol

[sunkenmetal]

Didn't realize how many shrimp I have. Its getting crazy lol

LOL once they get going they just start appearing...

[nightster]

Short video of my shrimp

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ie5-H2AV-hM&feature=youtube_gdata_player

[sunkenmetal]

Lots of shrimp...

Looks like your getting some algae growing in there...

[nightster]

Lots of shrimp...

Looks like your getting some algae growing in there...

Yea a bit, pretty much just on the glass. Hard to get it all and not send my substrate flying all crazy...

[sunkenmetal]

Yea a bit, pretty much just on the glass. Hard to get it all and not send my substrate flying all crazy...

Try some Ottos

[nightster]

Yea I was thinking about some, maybe a pea puffer too to keep my shrimp population in check lol

[aquabee]

Nice. Your shrimp looks awesome, especially those snowballs.

[sunkenmetal]

Yea I was thinking about some, maybe a pea puffer too to keep my shrimp population in check lol

my pp puffers prefer snail face.. But I have so many snails they leave my shrimp alone. Maybe they will like your shrimp...

also my pp puffers leave the ottos alone so I think it is a good combo

[nightster]

Well I added 3 pea puffers to the tank, no shrimp killin yet lol.

[sunkenmetal]

Well I added 3 pea puffers to the tank, no shrimp killin yet lol.

cool man they raping snails yet?

[nightster]

Not too many snails in there, ill add one or two a day. The assassins took care of the snails, hopefully the puffer's don't mow through my assassins lol.