60cm ada cube garden aquarium & shrimp

[aquanut415]

hello folks.. here is a current pic of my aquarium.

[Marty]

Where's the shrimp ??? Nice tank ! I like the wide aspect ratio of the photo

[aquanut415]

i tried to post pics of the shrimp, but they are 2kb too large... maybe i will fix them when i get back later.

[Tindomul]

Nice tank!! I have such a hard time growing plants completely submersed.

[aquanut415]

what are you trying to grow? provided with lots of of pressurized co2 and VERY clean water, frankly its hard to kill stuff.

[Tindomul]

I stopped trying cause I was not successful. Only my Amazon sword is doing well, other wise everything else is growing emersed with wet feet. Cryptocoryne, Anubias, Eleocharis

[aquanut415]

yeah... if you want to see plants growing inches in a week, use a presurized co2 system. ofcourse, then you need to start fertilizng the water column with fertilizers; potassium nitrate, potassium sulfate, and then monopotassium phosphate. i can give you levels on this if you decide to do it...or alternatively you can use a specialty aquarium soil designed to grow plants in the presence of additional co2 like nothing you have ever seen in your aquarium, and then there is a decreased need to fertilize the water column.

[aquanut415]

these are cherry shrimp on a real living lawn of underwater plants. the shrimp are about dime sized and breed easily in freshwater. neat little things, and really fun to photo.

[flhiker]

WOW! again this place shows me things I never new existed. I have had a couple of fish tanks (freash and salt) before and had live plants but nothing like that. Thanks for the pictures

[Marty]

Top notch photos !!! Makes me want to start a heavily planted black water angel or discus tank. What is that plant?