Aquafest Planted Tanks

SubMariner

SubMariner

Master Jedi & Past VP
No way Franny!

My wife would kill me if I have anymore tanks. :smashfreakB:

Question though...Do you think a Mary Jane Plant would survive underwater in one of those tanks?

I think John was asking me that at the show. :p
 
maddog10

maddog10

Members
I haven't decided to start one (yet). But I did join the GWAPA forum and will probably join the club as well. Hope to come to one of the meetings in the near future to see what its all about.
 
mscichlid

mscichlid

Founder
I haven't decided to start one (yet). But I did join the GWAPA forum and will probably join the club as well. Hope to come to one of the meetings in the near future to see what its all about.[/b]
Click to expand...

The meetings are nice because the meetings move from member to member homes. Just like CCA used to be when we started out. You get to see different setups and the plants for sale....! Ahh!

The next meeting is at my house, one week before our holiday party....can you believe that!

FB
 
marge618

marge618

CCA member
<div class='quotemain'>I haven't decided to start one (yet). But I did join the GWAPA forum and will probably join the club as well. Hope to come to one of the meetings in the near future to see what its all about.[/b]
Click to expand...

The meetings are nice because the meetings move from member to member homes. Just like CCA used to be when we started out. You get to see different setups and the plants for sale....! Ahh!

The next meeting is at my house, one week before our holiday party....can you believe that!

FB
[/b][/quote]

When is the next GWAPA event? ..I need more green (plants that is) during winter months. Also, what was that mobile filter they used on the aquascaped demonstration tank at AquaFest? :confused0083: (I tried using 'proper' soil to start a planted tank and it still looks cloudy.)
Later,
Marge
 
L

ltrepeter2000

Members
Next GWAPA event is this coming weekend at Dave's house in Mount Airy. The directions can be found on the front page of the GWAPA website under the description of the January meeting. Dave is going to talk about the set up of his 180 gallon tank that he built in when he recently finished his basement. They are then going to demonstrate setting up the tank using the "golden ratio".
 
marge618

marge618

CCA member
Next GWAPA event is this coming weekend at Dave's house in Mount Airy. The directions can be found on the front page of the GWAPA website under the description of the January meeting. Dave is going to talk about the set up of his 180 gallon tank that he built in when he recently finished his basement. They are then going to demonstrate setting up the tank using the "golden ratio".[/b]
Click to expand...

This is interesting. Maybe enough time to find a ride... Is anyone from the Balto area going to the BWAPA meeting next Saturday? If so, please pm me.
Later,
Marge
 
DeeCee

DeeCee

Members
I love this site. Everyone is SOOOOO Helpful! :love0007:

Hey Marge, now what you need to do is go to GWAPA and convince them that you need rides to CCA, so we can get more of them over HERE too! Heee heee! Oh, my wheels are spinnin' again!

DC
 
Sonny Disposition

Sonny Disposition

Well-Known Member
Maybe you'd get them here if someone did a presentation on "cichlids for planted tanks."

Heavy on apistos and kribensis, I would guess. So far, the yellow labs and Ngara flametails don't seem to be bother the plants I keep. (Although it's only java fern, java moss, hornwort, and Potomac River Val.)


I love this site. Everyone is SOOOOO Helpful! :love0007:

Hey Marge, now what you need to do is go to GWAPA and convince them that you need rides to CCA, so we can get more of them over HERE too! Heee heee! Oh, my wheels are spinnin' again!

DC[/b]
Click to expand...
 
marge618

marge618

CCA member
Maybe you'd get them here if someone did a presentation on "cichlids for planted tanks."

Heavy on apistos and kribensis, I would guess. So far, the yellow labs and Ngara flametails don't seem to be bother the plants I keep. (Although it's only java fern, java moss, hornwort, and Potomac River Val.)


<div class='quotemain'>I love this site. Everyone is SOOOOO Helpful! :love0007:

Hey Marge, now what you need to do is go to GWAPA and convince them that you need rides to CCA, so we can get more of them over HERE too! Heee heee! Oh, my wheels are spinnin' again!

DC[/b]
Click to expand...
[/b][/quote]

Oh Yeah! Everyone in this club is so helpful. I'm going to GWAPA today! I'll tell them I got there thanks to CCA.

DC, good thing you've got so many wheels, I mean tanks. How many of your tanks are planted?

Later,
Marge
 
DeeCee

DeeCee

Members
Only 2 tanks are planted at all right now Marge. I'm hoping to see what shows up at the next CCA auction though
(HINT HINT for all you plant people!)

DC
 
I

ingg

Members
I sent a cichlid person home with a couple free plants yesterday. :p Come to think of it, sent a couple CCA members home with free plants.

Saw several faces I know from CCA at the meeting, glad you all could make it! Man, I was so pooped after setting up the hardscape and rock in that tank.... never even got to pay attention for most of the auction.

Tank is up and running, brand spankin' new 180g fully planted. When the dust settles (literally, forgot to rinse the lava rock, and spewed red dust over everything when I turned the filters on) I'll try and snag some photos.... err... make you all come and do photos, my camera doesn't cut it!
 
maddog10

maddog10

Members
Thanks again for the plants Dave!
The free ones were easy to plant, its that damn Glosso that I bought that is killing me. Sure were a lot of plants in that little tiny bag!
 
marge618

marge618

CCA member
I sent a cichlid person home with a couple free plants yesterday. :p Come to think of it, sent a couple CCA members home with free plants.

Saw several faces I know from CCA at the meeting, glad you all could make it! Man, I was so pooped after setting up the hardscape and rock in that tank.... never even got to pay attention for most of the auction.

Tank is up and running, brand spankin' new 180g fully planted. When the dust settles (literally, forgot to rinse the lava rock, and spewed red dust over everything when I turned the filters on) I'll try and snag some photos.... err... make you all come and do photos, my camera doesn't cut it![/b]
Click to expand...

OHHHHHH BEAUTIFUL TANK

It is picture ready. A giant version of the tiny manicured tanks I have been so jealous of in the past. Now I know what planning a planted aquarium really is = an art form.

Thanks for having all of us there to witness the steps you had to go through to make your tank so self-sustaining. The decisions for soil that will feed the plants forever really intrigued me. Can you add something to the soil of an already established planted tank that will feed the plants for years to come?

Later,
Marge
 
I

ingg

Members
<div class='quotemain'>I sent a cichlid person home with a couple free plants yesterday. :p Come to think of it, sent a couple CCA members home with free plants.

Saw several faces I know from CCA at the meeting, glad you all could make it! Man, I was so pooped after setting up the hardscape and rock in that tank.... never even got to pay attention for most of the auction.

Tank is up and running, brand spankin' new 180g fully planted. When the dust settles (literally, forgot to rinse the lava rock, and spewed red dust over everything when I turned the filters on) I'll try and snag some photos.... err... make you all come and do photos, my camera doesn't cut it![/b]
Click to expand...

OHHHHHH BEAUTIFUL TANK

It is picture ready. A giant version of the tiny manicured tanks I have been so jealous of in the past. Now I know what planning a planted aquarium really is = an art form.

Thanks for having all of us there to witness the steps you had to go through to make your tank so self-sustaining. The decisions for soil that will feed the plants forever really intrigued me. Can you add something to the soil of an already established planted tank that will feed the plants for years to come?

Later,
Marge
[/b][/quote]

You can use "fert tabs", they look like oversized pills that are substrate fertilizers. They don't go for years, more like months, but they are easy to use. Plug one in under a plant or area you want to enrich the substrate of, and come again in a few months. Very common to put them under like sword plants, give them that initial boost they like in the substrate.

Only way I know to make it long term is the mineralized soil or premium substrates like Flourite or ADA's Aquasoils. Realize, though, that the soil method does have its downsides, too. Mostly in initial set up - I'm already battling green water from all of the nutrient rich goodness in there. It does eventually settle down, but it would be quite frustrating to someone who wasn't expecting it. :)

Here it is after the dust settled.

 
You must log in or register to reply here.
American Cichlid Association
Top