NofishB4 Posted November 25, 2022 Share Posted November 25, 2022 So 3 months ago my friend asked me for help setting up a tank for her 13 year old. Originally she only wanted a 10G but I brow beat her into a standard 20G. Fast forward 4 months and that 20G is thriving but the moderate planting we did exploded and she feels the tank looks too full (it is at least 80% planted). C does not want to thin out any of his plants as he loves how happy his fish are but does feel like they are a bit cramped (he has 8 espei, 10 green neons, and 8 khuli loaches) His mom bought him a 33L for Xmas and we would love to see some our your low tech, easy to maintain scapes. We will be transferring mostly various species of crypts, an aponogeton crispus, 2 different species stem plants and a couple anubias. I believe we are going to ditch his water lettuce in such a short tank. Maybe go with red root or salvinia. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nabokovfan87 Posted November 25, 2022 Share Posted November 25, 2022 (edited) On 11/24/2022 at 7:07 PM, NofishB4 said: His mom bought him a 33L for Xmas and we would love to see some our your low tech, easy to maintain scapes. We will be transferring mostly various species of crypts, an aponogeton crispus, 2 different species stem plants and a couple anubias. I believe we are going to ditch his water lettuce in such a short tank. Maybe go with red root or salvinia. Talk about a DREAM setup. I really love those dimensions. What a fun set of tanks to keep. I would have Salvinia on the top. I would vote blackwater? Does that make sense for the species in question? I would try to find a good piece of "log" style wood like this one, potentially something that sticks up and out of the tank but not too massive. I think 33long is a "delicate" tank and having a simple scape, fine branches does really well. Manzanita basically. "Bottom up" scape, but moreso a scape where the branches give movement across the length of that tank. Edited November 25, 2022 by nabokovfan87 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndEEss Posted November 25, 2022 Share Posted November 25, 2022 You could do a river/stream scape. Lots of large river rocks, and directional flow from one side to the other with a canister filter. Just make sure to use some sort of protection for the bottom of the tank if you go that route. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NofishB4 Posted November 25, 2022 Author Share Posted November 25, 2022 We’d love to do a river scape. Unfortunately his current stock would not like strong flow. It would be a whole new world if we weren’t trying to work around them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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