could use advice...

[troy tucker]

On the driftwood is the best place with Geo's.
What do you want for carpet?







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[R_sustaita]

I like the big planted tank. 20g tank will plant and look full right away. But a big tank takes some time to fill in. R is your 75g planted?
I know you Geo's will tare up some plants. you are never going to have carpet with geo's...

yes i have plants, i think they are Java petite (cant rememebr wht roy gave me) they are attached to drift wood. also moss and is also attached to drift wood. the geos change my landscape daily.

btw i want a carpet for my shrimp tank.

[troy tucker]

I like the big planted tank. 20g tank will plant and look full right away. But a big tank takes some time to fill in. R is your 75g planted?
I know you Geo's will tare up some plants. you are never going to have carpet with geo's...

[R_sustaita]

rams are a good choice too. fill it with tetras or rasboras. you can do so much with plant friendly tanks/fish.

[mnemenoi]

South American dwarf cichlids are great choices as well as the Curviceps and a few oddballs (festivums, angelfish, pike cichlids)

[mydawg8mystash]

Yea I know I think imma do a 55 with sum smalls n go from there

[mistahoo]

Also a heads up if your tank has cichlids. Plants and cichlids don't seem to work well together. They'll dig up the plants and nip at them.

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[mydawg8mystash]

Well my goal is to make all of my tanks look more lively insted of a few rocks couple pieces of drift wood and FAKE plants which are ok of u don't have good lights I currently am juggling 6 tanks with another in a couple weeks I know its gonna take a few to get looking right and would appricate any help I am a hobbyists and enjoy sharing and any stemulation of the hobby my mind is always racing with ideas of if I had to or what could be improved but cannot make the great and awsomness ideas I have and want to do because of my muscular dystrophy if I was not psychaly stopped at my ideas were actully done I would b dangerous lol enough poor me b.s. anyways I just wanna improve what I got lol

[mnemenoi]

90 should be a great size tank, though it might take awhile to properly fill in. Many folks on here have plants and many local stores sell decent plants. I would suggest Anubias, Swords, Lotus, Crypts, Mosses, Java Ferns and Vals. All are fairly easy and workable in a tank that size. None are weird about water requirements and do not need Co2 injection. All of our tanks were low tech when you came over to the GHAC meeting last year in Spring. Just keep adding along the way and see what grows and what does not. There is a lot of trial and error involved in first planted tanks and just have fun. Ask questions as they come up and read as much about Low tech planted tanks as you can online as it does answer many issues you might not foresee at start up. Good Luck!

[mistahoo]

same here, MRoy got me started and are the only plants that actually have survive my planted trial.

He started my tank too lol. He completely filled my 5G. That's another reason I like plants from hobbyists. They're already tested and work in our water. You can also get extra info on them if you need from the person. LFS usually get it through shipment and some survive long enough to die in your tank when you bring it home.

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[R_sustaita]

Definitely. Buy from other hobbyists before going to the LFS. There's plenty of hobbyists that'll give you plants or trimmings for free. I always offer up trimmings from my tank for free since I was given free plants to start off when I started plants. I'm located on the opposite side of town from you though.

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same here, MRoy got me started and are the only plants that actually have survive my planted trial.

[mistahoo]

yes bigger is better always but when your limited in funds and you dont know if a planted tank will be the ideal for you then smaller is better. thats why i asked him what was his goal for the tank.

i want a freaking carpet and i will keep trying.

$50 planted my 210G. Even if funds are limited, plants are cheap and also can be obtained at no cost at all.

Carpets are more pricey. Also the fact that almost all of them grow better with CO2.

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[R_sustaita]

You can make a 90 look just as good as a 20L. It's just more space to work with. IMO, bigger is better.

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yes bigger is better always but when your limited in funds and you dont know if a planted tank will be the ideal for you then smaller is better. thats why i asked him what was his goal for the tank.

i want a freaking carpet and i will keep trying.

[mistahoo]

i used that as an example that he can find plants with in here rather than a LFS

Definitely. Buy from other hobbyists before going to the LFS. There's plenty of hobbyists that'll give you plants or trimmings for free. I always offer up trimmings from my tank for free since I was given free plants to start off when I started plants. I'm located on the opposite side of town from you though.

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[mistahoo]

it goes back to what is your goal. if you only want to have some plants the 90 is good but if you really want to get a nice planted tank then start small like a 20L see if you like it and then expand. thats just IMO...

You can make a 90 look just as good as a 20L. It's just more space to work with. IMO, bigger is better.

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