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- From: fester@island.COM (Mike Fester)
- Subject: Re: [F] Aqua-scaping - any Ideas?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.171718.2650@island.COM>
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- References: <1993Jan21.155545.24669@mprgate.mpr.ca> <C18GG6.9y7@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 17:17:18 GMT
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- In article <C18GG6.9y7@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> thompssp@expert.cc.purdue.edu (Steven P. Thompson) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan21.155545.24669@mprgate.mpr.ca> csmith@mpr.ca (Cameron Smith) writes:
- >>
- >>I am attempting to aqua-scape my recently established aquarium. I have a
- >>10 gallon (20" X 10") tank, UGF. It is currently populated with 2 Bettas
- >>(male and female), 1 dwarf butterfly cichlid, and a pleco, and am planning
- >>to add some tetras (neon or cardinal, blue (blueberry?) or more SA dwarf
- >>cichlids, or maybe a blue gourami! As far as plants go I have a Cabomba
- >>carolineaus (sp?) in the front left corner, and a water fern (Ceratopterious
- >>thalitrodies (sp?)) in the back right corner. I thought that I would like
- >>to place more plants along the left side and across the back.
- >>
- >>I thought an Amazon sword might look good in the back center, but don't
- >>really know what else to plant! Any suggestions?
- >>
- > Is it just me, or does this sound like A LOT of stuff for a 10 gallon
- >tank???
-
-
- Actually, I have noticed I can keep an awful lot of fish in a small tank if
- there are lots of places for the fish to stake out as their own territory, and
- plants certainly help there. I had at one time about 30 fish plus two newts in
- a 25 gallon tank that was 3/4 filled (I used my Aquaclear to make a little
- 'waterfall') with an area for the newts to climb out of the water. LOTS of
- plants, some rocks and "logs". I had a male betta, about 10 cardinals, 4 glass
- cats, 4 marble hatchets, 4 kuhli's, 1 pleco, 2 cats, a clown loach, red-tail
- shark, a couple shrimp, and a bumblebee fish. All lived quite well for over 2
- years. After that, I moved to Japan and sold the tank.
-
- >>Also, I would like to know of any short (say, less than 10 cm [4"] in
- >>height) that I could plant (sparsly) in the center to front.
-
- I forget the name of it, but there is a very small, dark green plant that
- will grow slowly but quite well. Strictly speaking, it is not aquatic, but
- will grow quite well underwater. Sends out shoots laterally and will eventually
- take over most of your foreground. I'll post the scientific name, if I can
- find it.
-
- Mike
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- Disclaimer - These opinions are not so much opinions, as pearls of wisdom. Any-
- one disagreeing is obviously either a) a snivelling, whining, mentally-
- deficient, weak-willed, inconsequential, namby-pamby tool of some vague but
- conveniently defined conspiracy, or b) my wife.
-