As you can see from my previous freshwater blog post my freshwater tank was looking a bit bare.... I was hoping I could just keep cutting the plants and, replanting however, this was taking a bit longer than I hoped. So I popped down to my local fish shop - fishbowl aquarium in carlton NSW where ken (the owner) has a bit of a fetish and, good knowledge of planted tanks and, quite a nice display tank also. I had previous purchased a whole bunch of plants + crystal red shrimp after seeing his amazing display - this is what inspired me to go this way rather than having a discus tank.... the shrimp really are a surpirse once you notice they are there :> just when you think you have seen and, kept it all something else inspires your interest.
SO I went and, purchased the following four plants:
- 1 x Amazon Sword
- 1 x Lace Fern
- 2 x Rotala Rotundifolia " Colorata"
- 2 x Ludwigia Brevides
I purchased these to fill out the background of the tank and, over the next few weeks I hope to fill out the foreground with some short-hair grass and, others types of small plants. Also, purchased 4 x Otocinclus Arnoldi fish (sounds like autostinkus) which are really good for planted tanks and, they seem to be getting stuck into the algae in my tank which at one stage was growing a bit wild. Apparently cherry red shrimp also love algae - so should make a good combo with the Otoclinclus.
2 x Otoclinclus + 2 x neons
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