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[VIDEO] My river tank
Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2008 1:00 pm
by oilhands
I changed my setup this weekend, but here is a video of it before I added more plants. I'll add a new video once I get a chance.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DB1eouC8Sd4
Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 1:21 pm
by Joe Khul
Very nice video, thank you for sharing. What all are you going to add?
Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 1:25 pm
by oilhands
Joe Khul wrote:Very nice video, thank you for sharing. What all are you going to add?
Thanks. Two different kinds of vallisneria: Giant and Crystal. I harvested a bunch of both from my "farm" tank the other day. It looks real nice so far. I hope to post an update soon.
Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 1:49 pm
by Joe Khul
Looking forward to seeing more pics!
Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2009 10:37 pm
by oilhands
I finally got around to taking an end-to-end picture of my 125 gallon tank now that it has been planted as I described above.
Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2009 10:55 pm
by shari2
nice.
Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2009 11:00 am
by chefkeith
Nice tank. How do the plants do with all the water flow? Do they ever get uprooted?
Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2009 2:36 pm
by oilhands
Thanks!
The water flow is fairly low ATM since I haven't popped for the big pumps I have been dreaming about installing. Currently the current flows backwards. That is why the Giant Vallisneria on the left is flowing from left to right towards the lone power head. Only one of the smaller Crystal Vallisneria has been kicked loose and that was a day or so after planting. I'm hoping that if I wait a month or so before buying any new power heads or filters then the roots will have developed enough that water flow digging loose the plants won't be an issue.
Interestingly enough this experiment backfired on me somewhat in regards to my donor tank. The donor tank was a high light 46 gallon tank. I dug out about 3/4 of the plants and moved them to this tank. Within a day or so I had a nice algae bloom. I added a Fluval 305 and have been doing daily water changes without really fixing the problem. I have been trying to buy some plants to put in the donor tank to take up the extra nutrients and starve out the algae, but for some reason all three of my usual fish shops have had a very very poor selection to choose from. I guess I have to break down and buy the Nitrate removing insert for the Fluval filter if I want to stop doing daily water changes. If they don't get some plant stock pretty soon.