10 Gallon CPD playground
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Hey guys,
newbie here, first time setting up an aquascaped aquarium, with the sole purpose of housing our spotted pals. I’ve got some inspiration from the aquascapes from CAU, AGA and ADA. If you don’t know these acronyms, I’ll be happy to help you.
The tank is 6 weeks old.
These photos don’t show my CPDs, which arrived 4 days ago, but I’ll post them tomorrow, stay tuned.So, thanks for letting me share my CPD experiences and read from yours.
Alex
Beautiful little tank, Alex. Thanks for sharing.
I have glosso too, and it has me concerned. I now have a 1.5 to 2″ layer all around my tank as it keeps growing back over itself. I’m going to have to deal with it sooner or later.
What’s the plant in back just to the right of the rock? I’ve been wanting a plant like that for my tank.
Looking forward to your fish pics.
Hey Ted,
Yeah, my glosso is all over the place now, growing on top of itself. I did a little pruning a while ago, but with CO2 and all that light, hard to keep it in check. The plant is a rotala indica or rotundifolia. It loves light, CO2 and nutrients, and it shows its appreciation by displaying great reddish leaves.
Hey guys,
As promised, here are some fresh new photos of my aquascape and it’s inhabitants. Weird jumble of java ferns and Crypts on the left. Gotta fix that. The rotala indica on the right side was pruned aggressively, so I can have it the size and shape I want in a week or so. My Valisneria melted two days after I planted it, but it’s recovering very fast behind the rock in the center. At left, by the vals, there is a growing rotala magenta, whose leaves literally exploded in size when I added bottled CO2.
Let me know what you think.
Hey guys,
just pruned the jungle a little today and trimmed the huge java fern leaves and its seedlings that were sprouting all over the place. My CPDs are getting less shy lately, I can now stop in front of the aquarium and they would come out of the back of the tank and play around. Great stuff seeing them play along with the Erytromicrons. But the Scarlet Badis is the king of finicky eaters, doesn’t eat anything that I put in the tank (and it’s a huge menu, frozen baby artemia, blood worms, cyclops, Hikari micropellets and such), only interested in what he can catch himself. Well, judging by his colors and behaviour, he’s getting by pretty well
And my CPDs are eating more regularly too.
Hey guys, I read somewhere on the Web that Malaysian Trumpet Snails are good for planted tanks and will help aerate the substrate as well as eat up dead leaves. I have a feeling it’ll be good for glosso tanks and might help “prune” the carpet. Anyone has experience with this? Anybody has any thoughts on a “natural” pruning method like this? I strive for a balanced ecosystem in my tanks where there is zero maintenance involved.
Celestialdude…
MTSs definitely aerate the substrate, spending most of the daytime underneath it. My MTSs came with a plant, I think, I have them all over my tank, and I did not buy them purposely.
I think that MTSs and other snails are eating my dead leaves at the bottom of the glosso carpet. My carpet is at least twice (if not 3 times) as thick as the pictured carpet here — mine is 2 – 3″ in most areas. The thing is, even with the eating of the melting leaves, that the glosso carpet keeps getting higher and higher. I see no option but to prune heavily every few months. I asked this question on another forum, and it was recommended to simply “mow” the glosso like a lawn down to .5 to 1″. I am going to try that soon.
Ah I see Ted… OK, I’ve got a few MTSs in my tank, but not enough glosso growth to require pruning. Yeah from what I gather, I don’t think there’s any “automated” way to control its growth. Hmm… now if there was a creature that actually ate glosso leaf by leaf, wouldn’t that be perfect?
Hey bzzi,
What’s the scientific name of the Scarlet Badi? I can’t seem to find this fish based on this name…
Tx!
Celestialdude,
Took me a while, but I found a link to Scarlet Badis:
http://www.aquahobby.com/gallery/e_Dario_dario.php
Looks like they are Dario dario.
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