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I'm not opposed to it, I don't know Bentley super well though. There are quite a few 'fishtube famous' people in GSAS, but I've never really found myself wanting to make videos. That is all water wisteria. It's actually kind of interesting if you're a plant nerd. For some amount of time (between two weeks and a month) in December, this tank had no CO2. The water wisteria grew very thin, yellow-green leaves in that time. Since getting CO2 back, it has started growing leaves in the emersed form, or at least closer to it. My guess is that the increased environmental CO2 let the plant to think it had broken the water surface and was now emersed. So now you have the old, thin growth and the thicker growth in the same bush. Bart Laurens suggested this could be due low light, but that doesn't make sense to me since you have different growth forms right next to each other. Pic of emersed water wisteria for reference

A couple more fish photos and a full tank shot after the water change

I don't know why GSAS doesn't just have a directory of member numbers. Just search for Bentley Pascoe on YouTube, I think that's his channel name.

My fish always decide the best time to spar and show off is when the glass is dirty and the water murky from trimming and uprooting plants...

Fun tidbit, someone from the Greater Seattle Aquarium Society (Bentley Pascoe, you may know him from YouTube) bought some of my Pogostemon erectus from the last auction and a rainbowfish egg hatched from it. I'm curious if it's the Rhadinocentrus ornatus or the Melanotaenia trifasciata. Probably the rhads since they're so easy to breed.

They're fine. I use the tank water to water my plants then top it off with dechlorinated tap water ever two weeks. I replace evaporated water with RO if it starts to get low. The shrimp are doing well, no breeding that I've seen but the small fish in there also might be eating any babies They're fine. I use the tank water to water my plants then top it off with dechlorinated tap water ever two weeks. I replace evaporated water with RO if it starts to get low. The shrimp are doing well, no breeding that I've seen but the small fish in there also might be eating any babies

Alright, last full tank shot for a while but this is one where I blocked out the light seepage from above. This tank would look waaay better with a hood.

Ludwigia natans

I did more rearranging to better accommodate the plants I got at the auction on Tuesday. Excuse the cloudy water, this is pre-water change. My fav I picked up is this beautiful Cryptocoryne Jacobsenii 'Pink' The crypt nurii 'Luminous Green' is also looking pretty good these days

Wow, you really slathered your hardscape with super glue. Do you ever try to get it off or do you just get new hardscape? The white patches drive me crazy, so I pick at it with a screwdriver

Somehow I got a weird exposure on this one. Anyways, now there is CO2 again things are recovering. I picked up some Crypt Jacobsenii Pink from the auction today and got my rotala macrandra green back too. Not much else to report!

I think that tank looks great. Lots of healthy plants in there. If it was mine I would do some trimming, but I like to keep my plants more manicured. Some prefer more of a jungly look and that is fine. In general, taller plants in the foreground (especially bushy plants) make a tank seem shorter and block the view of the background plants. If you don't have enough light, your plants are going to get leggier and it will be tough to keep them compact. There's nothing intrinsically wrong with that. I like to juxtapose a medium-height foreground plant with a really low one like Monte Carlo so you get a full impression of the depth of the tank.

This is a new one for me, my Nymphaea minuta is flowering underwater!

Apparently I'm out of CO2. No idea for how long, but I guess that is why there was almost no growth over the holidays. I'm guessing there is a leak somewhere because that didn't take long at all.

Cool, thanks for the review! It's been on my radar since it seems like an inexpensive powerhouse but it's tough to find people who have actually used one.

They sell cheap pantyhose at drug stores. I personally don't bother, and if shrimp get siphoned out I just take them out of the bucket with my hands. I call it the suck & pluck method

Are you using it on that tank???? If you can I'd love to see a comparison of its color rendition with your other lights

Due to holiday circumstances I went about 3 weeks without a water change. The golden Myriophyllum stunted, as did the Ludwigia natans. The Nymphaea micrantha dropped all its leaves after being moved but has recovered. The biggest issue was lack of ferts. I finally doses macros again last week (after 2 weeks without) and again during the water change last night. I also popped in some root tabs. Overall I might need to either switch to more frequent dosing (currently at once a week) or just increase ferts. I am going to give it a couple weeks of regular water changes to see if things improve first. Otherwise the colors and layout are coming along fairly well. The right hand side still needs work but I do like the addition of the moss in the center-right hand side there.

This is the only mattogrossense variety I've grown is the golden one. I haven't seen a really red variety, only green with a reddish growth point. I know Myriophyllum tuberculatum has a very nice red color. I look forward to seeing what you do with a six foot tank! I'm sure it will look great with a back wall of different myrios.

I've had Myriophyllum Roraima before and it is a nice plant, but it was tough to manage with how fast it grows. I also didn't necessarily want two Myriophyllum species in the same tank. I love crypts and I'm thinking of turning the cube tank with emersed plants into a crypt garden. One thing I've noticed is that the Myriophyllum mattogrossense 'Golden' is a lot prettier when you don't plant it as densely. The tips get an almost pinkish hue.

I'm trying out some plants on the right hand side. The guy at the fish store gave me a crypt wendtii "Green Gecko", and I also bought a Crypt spiralis for the curtain plant. I went with Hygrophila siamensis (Willow hygrophila) after seeing it in @Mmiller2001's tank. I was also looking for some Limnophila aromatica 'mini' but ended up with Limnophila 'Vietnam'. I don't think it's as colorful but I'm gonna give it a chance and see what it looks like once it grows out a bit.

You mean 'sponsored by Tropica' George Farmer? The guy who gets a crate of plants for every scape? You wanted something slower paced than a full stem plant scape. It's gonna take a while to fill in, but it will eventually fill in

That looks like Bolbitis heteroclita difformis 'Mini' to me. I've never gotten it to grow underwater, only in terrariums. I'm not convinced it's aquatic. Bolbitis heudelotii is a lot easier.

Crypt nurii 'Luminous Green' for tax. In high light it looks like most other nurii, I think you need to crowd/shade it to get the green color to come out. I'm really here to get some pictures of what Green Gecko looks like in higher light. Anyone have a close-up? @Dark River Aquatics @Jungle Fan

This is the Ecotech Radion spectrum: Compared to the Chihiros Vivid: Highlighting greens and reds is a lot less of a requirement in a reef tank, just how super powerful blues and ultraviolet are pointless in a freshwater tank. They're just different. On principle, I try not to argue with people on the internet. I've made tanks like the one you want to try to emulate, which is why offered my $.02, but I'm not going to stick around if what you're looking for is a debate.