Sunday, January 21, 2024

The D-Day 🏁🎯🚀


 

It took me at least several hours to put all the plants in the tank, and I've learned some things along the way. When I was checking how to place the plants properly some people were using a hand sprinkler which I also went for, it was helpful as I got everything in the tank super humid which helped get the plants in place however I didn't know at the time that upon filling almost half of my plants will choose the more active way of living and start to swim around the tank 🙈


I've decided to put the Rotala Macrandra behind the stone on the left side of the tank, I thought it would nicely fit in the scape, and supplement the rock a bit with its vibrant red color. Eleocharis sp.mini was selected as a grass/floor plant and was supposed to spread throughout the tank to take over the ground at some point and look more like a grassy carpet rather than disconnected groups of weeds. In the end, we got the mosses that I picked for the tank, on the driftwood I added mostly Christmas moss as I thought it would give it a nice tree look when it spreads out. The creeping moss was added mostly on the small rock placed in front of the tank, however, I used some small chunks on the tree also as I've run out of the Christmas moss.
After putting in the missing water the tank got pretty foggy so I could not wait for the next day to see how it looked in much clearer water...