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Post by angelminx on Dec 6, 2014 0:08:55 GMT -5
The last series with different angles: Most of the pictures I've taken recently have been done at night because the glare from the window doesn't show up then, but I'm going to try to remember to take some more during the day and see if the "lighting" shows up a little different, like it did with my 1st few picts--taken before the GroBeams).
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Post by Deleted on Dec 6, 2014 0:13:18 GMT -5
Hi Angelminx,
I had one of those inexpensive Marineland LED lights go bad, too.....11 inch bar light - Was the the same style as yours? I paid around $19.00/$20.00 for mine on clearance -- It lasted several months.
Your aquarium looks amazing!!!
Judy
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Post by angelminx on Dec 6, 2014 3:31:17 GMT -5
Hi, Judy,
Thanks! Yah, they're the same. The 1st ones went bad, because they got wet, so far these are doing fine. I do really need one of the AquaBars or GrowBeams for the 10G now that I have moved my Ozelot sword over to it to recuperate...the Nerites (at least they are the ones I always saw at the base of the plant) kept pruning the leaves off at the base of the plant (I'm keeping my fingers crossed for the Red Rubin and Kleiner Bar swords I'm trying to grow, too).
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Post by devonjohnsgard on Dec 6, 2014 14:37:56 GMT -5
Tank look great!
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Post by angelminx on Mar 9, 2015 2:29:19 GMT -5
I'll post some more info soon, just thought I'd make a "clarification". The tank is technically no longer a South American Community (I ignored the snails and shrimp when categorizing the tank before--and the fact that most of the plants aren't correct). I moved the 3 Dwarf Neon Rainbows to the tank this afternoon, and also have the 5 SAEs in the tank. Otherwise the [fish] inhabitants are: Angelfish, Black Neon Tetras, Black Phantom Tetras, Corydoras, Banjo Catfish, and a Bristlenose Pleco.
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Post by angelminx on Apr 4, 2015 3:36:12 GMT -5
I just took some photos of the aquarium with different "scenes". The 1st is "Landscape", the 2nd "Dusk/Dawn", and the 3rd is "Night Landscape": I had just finished a WC and had trimmed most of the plants (some of the trimmings went into the 10G quarantine tank, replacing some of the "rattier" ones in there). The Dwarf Neon Rainbows are temporarily in the quarantine tank with my new Paleatus cory, who is undergoing quarantine (before joining her "step-siblings" in the 55G), and my new Elephant Ear Halfmoon Plakat Betta (and Ghost Shrimp--I was finally able to buy a couple who are large enough to go into the Big Tank when I transfer my cory). Any opinions on which "scene" is the best to use for "whole tank" shots? Angelminx
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Post by devonjohnsgard on Apr 4, 2015 13:10:34 GMT -5
Your pictures are great. I like shot 1. I think the colors are nice. Shot 3 is my second favorite.
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Post by angelminx on Apr 5, 2015 17:50:23 GMT -5
I just compared the 3 whole-tank photos again, and I think I like the "Night Landscape" best, because it seems to show a little more depth than "Landscape" does . I've been going over my (re-arranged) pictures folders and I think I have some views for you all that will show some of the progress that's happened within the tank. But 1st is one of the main pictures I took of the Water Wisteria (pre-GrowBeams), taken in the afternoon with flash (before I figured out how to turn it off), that shows the extensive "arial" roots that tended to develop on them. That still happens, but not to the extent that it used to: The next is a photo of (one bunch of) my hornwort, a while ago (when it was "new"). Now I am down to a few short (~3-4") scraggely pieces. It doesn't seem to be able to return to its normal vigorous self (I was always fighting with it getting tangled up in the Water Sprite and Wisteria--as well as itself--before, and had to use plant weights to hold it down on the substrate so it wouldn't keep floating around and getting tangled). It was vigorous for quit a while there--at least 9 months: And this next one shows a close-up of the base of one of my Anubias afzelli (this one is from the quarantine tank). I don't seem to be having near as much luck with them as I do with my other Anubias (I can't seem to get them to cling to rock/wood--and they keep getting brown patches; I may have to wait a little bit with the others, but they do grab hold): As you can see, the Afzelli (right) and the Barteri have been "attached" at the same time, but the Afzelli just won't take hold (in either tank), while the Barteri (and Coffeefolia) are doing great. I tried a Congensis one time, too, but never had any luck with it either.
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Post by angelminx on Apr 5, 2015 18:25:10 GMT -5
Next I'll talk about my Vals. I had been wanting to get some, and finally did. I don't use scientific names for them, because every source I have with photos of the different types may use some of the same scientific names, but they place them under different plants--for example, one source categorizes Jungle Vals as V. americana, while others use that name for Dwarf Va; another calls Jungle Val V. spiralis, others use spiralis for Corkscrew, straight, and Italian Val; Corkscrew Val is also V. asiatica and V. tortifolia; and Jungle Val is also V. gigantea. there is also a "Red Jungle Val". I don't know what names it goes by. Any way, I got some Italian Vals, and some Jungles and some Red Jungles. When they arrived I wasn't sure which was the regular and which was the "Red". They weren't in the best of shape. Here are the Jungles (and a couple of the Italians): [the 3rd photo shows more--towards the top (I accidentally cut off the tips in the photo) of the ones that arrived long.]
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Post by angelminx on Apr 5, 2015 18:29:32 GMT -5
This one shows the Italians: I wasn't sure if they would make it or not, but I planted them anyway (the Jungles on on the left end of the aquarium, and the Italians on the right):
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Post by angelminx on Apr 5, 2015 18:35:43 GMT -5
After they had been there a day or two, they continued to melt... ...so I "trimmed" them, and moved them to the front, so they'd get more light,and I could keep an eye on them:
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Post by angelminx on Apr 5, 2015 18:49:53 GMT -5
The next photo shows some of them a little while later (some didn't make it, and the rest put only put out 1 or 2 roots, and that very slowly): I later moved them again so I could add the "sand box" for the Cories and Banjo catfish. These were taken quite a while later: (this last one was taken during the day, so the reflection of the window ruined the shot, but you can still kind of see the one Jungle Val at the surface. [Edit: today they are even longer, but I haven't taken any pics of that yet.]
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Post by angelminx on Apr 5, 2015 18:54:28 GMT -5
The last 3 show close-ups of the jungles. One shows the center stripe that began to show up; even later the "spotting" started to appear one one of them: I've got to run and fix dinner, so I'll "blog" some more later. Angelminx
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Post by devonjohnsgard on Apr 6, 2015 9:05:54 GMT -5
Sorry about the melting. I've had some plants do that before. I also thought it was because the source of where I got the plants from had different lighting then me, so my plants were having to get used to my new light.
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Post by parker002 on Apr 8, 2015 18:25:59 GMT -5
Some plants are just fragile. I've seen the melting leaves before, even in healthy Crypts, which are quite hardy.
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Post by angelminx on Apr 9, 2015 14:55:31 GMT -5
I finally got a chance to sit down for more than a few minutes . Here are some photos of my Crypts... ...the Green Wendtii and the Lutea, on either side of my "centerpiece" rock (I don't know which are which, and they weren't identified when I received them, and were hard to tlee apart, so they may be mixed together. Also,the group on the right is no longer as large a group or in size--no pics of that yet) ...my Balansae (when it was younger--I got them in October) started out as an ~ 4" long group, ~3" high, and ended up being 2 separate plants (you can see a hornwort "sprig" in this shot) ...here they are taller, and you can see what my Water Sprite looked like (the thickness of the stems) that had settled in real well (the "sand box" was added Dec 10)
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Post by angelminx on Apr 9, 2015 15:06:21 GMT -5
...this pic shows them starting to reach the surface... ...and here is one taken a bit closer, with my Kleiner Bar Sword behind the "sand box"... ...and this one shows 2 "babies", one is poking above the gravel between that and the glass. (today there is a 3rd one, ~ 3" tall, growing up between the plant on the left and the side glass)
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Post by angelminx on Apr 9, 2015 15:14:17 GMT -5
My Swords consist of one unknown species that I have had for a few years, an Ozelot and a Kleiner Bar. I had a Red Rubin for a while, but it didn't make it--I think it was because of the Chocolate Rabbit Snails (I was told they wouldn't eat plants, but I was constantly removing them from base of the younger the swords, and as they transitioned to their submerged form, I kept finding leaves--stem attached--floating at the surface of the tank).
Here is a photo from when I got the Rubin and Kleiner Bar in October
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Post by angelminx on Apr 9, 2015 15:28:48 GMT -5
I accidentally click on "create post" for some reason, instead of "add attachment" (Let's try this again): here are the Rubin (left) and Kleiner Bar ...here the Rubin has been transplanted and was melting ...and here it has been moved to the 10G, along with the Ozelot, to get to get them away from the Rabbits I eventually move them back to the 55G, and the Rabbits to the 10G. They didn't bother the Kleiner Bar as much. The Nerites occasionally nibble on the different plants, but the one they seem to bother most is the Bolbitis heudelotii, they do nibble on the Crypts and the Vals, but they don't do as much damage--only occasionally more than I like. I may eventually move them to the 10G, too.
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Post by angelminx on Apr 9, 2015 15:40:31 GMT -5
This shows the Ozelot (I got it when Petco had their last 3-day fish/plant sale) these are after it has been moved back to the 55G and has had a chance to recover (a little bit of snail-damage to the Anubias leaves can be seen) ...this one shows the Bolbitis recovering, too (in the 1st photo, if you look in the corner, you can see it just starting to come back) ...and this one is taken from a distance, showing both (and you can see the size in comparison to one of the Water Wisteria leaves) [one of the Italian Vals can be seen on the left]
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