More not-so-great aquarium pics
Oct. 25th, 2010 05:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
urocyonSome plant pics from when I was cleaning the tank and doing plant maintenance earlier.* Please excuse the bit of water cloudiness; I'd already added FeSO4 fertilizer before I spotted a flower and thought to get the camera.
Not surprisingly, there are fish too, whether I was trying to photograph them or not. :)
I hesitated to put this potted Aponogeton undulatus (grown from a little rhizome) into the goldfish tank, but they haven't been tearing it up too much. It's getting pretty big. (For scale: the tank is 180L/about 47 gal., and round little Salsa is fast approaching tennis ball size in the body.)
All the plants in there are potted, BTW, since it's a lot easier to keep a bare-bottom tank clean with messy goldfish. I learned this the hard way. Good thing I also like the look. :)
Every time I look, it's got multiple new leaves forming.
The plant must be pretty happy--it's sent up a flower stalk. :) The light bar reflection in the water surface couldn't be avoided.
Salsa comes up to see what I'm doing. Good thing I'm not a raccoon.
OK, that's not my photo, but I couldn't resist a baby 'coon. *g*
Salsa and Canary (who was yellow, starting out) swam past while I was trying to get another plant shot, but the fin motion looked cool. The very bottom fin portion is Canary's, though his body isn't visible.
BTW, I'm really glad that we can just move the tanks we've got (empty!) to Ireland, without having to buy new electricals or even plug adaptors. Not a cheap prospect, not at all.
* Well past time, too! I hadn't managed to clean it in a couple of weeks, with the viral fatigue. Good thing the heavy planting slurps up a lot of waste products! :-|
Not surprisingly, there are fish too, whether I was trying to photograph them or not. :)
I hesitated to put this potted Aponogeton undulatus (grown from a little rhizome) into the goldfish tank, but they haven't been tearing it up too much. It's getting pretty big. (For scale: the tank is 180L/about 47 gal., and round little Salsa is fast approaching tennis ball size in the body.)
All the plants in there are potted, BTW, since it's a lot easier to keep a bare-bottom tank clean with messy goldfish. I learned this the hard way. Good thing I also like the look. :)
Every time I look, it's got multiple new leaves forming.
The plant must be pretty happy--it's sent up a flower stalk. :) The light bar reflection in the water surface couldn't be avoided.
Salsa comes up to see what I'm doing. Good thing I'm not a raccoon.
OK, that's not my photo, but I couldn't resist a baby 'coon. *g*
Salsa and Canary (who was yellow, starting out) swam past while I was trying to get another plant shot, but the fin motion looked cool. The very bottom fin portion is Canary's, though his body isn't visible.
BTW, I'm really glad that we can just move the tanks we've got (empty!) to Ireland, without having to buy new electricals or even plug adaptors. Not a cheap prospect, not at all.
* Well past time, too! I hadn't managed to clean it in a couple of weeks, with the viral fatigue. Good thing the heavy planting slurps up a lot of waste products! :-|
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Date: 2010-10-26 01:36 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-10-26 03:59 pm (UTC)If you want low maintenance, you might consider a Natural Planted Tank. (She also has a good pictorial up, and here's one from someone else.) The setup is not that much more complicated than usual--basically any kind of plain potting soil will do, under the gravel--and after that, you barely have to touch them. :) They only need water changes every few months, even with some fish in there, and some plant trimming when it gets too overgrown. I've got a couple set up with only snails and cherry shrimp (both are good for algae cleanup, and fun to watch!), and only feed them once or twice a week; the plants are doing great, with only the snail and shrimp waste. It's harder to do that type plant-only, but it would probably work just to drop a pinch of fish food in there once a week or so for extra nutrients.