?complete guide to waterplants?

ok pepz this is wha done so far ...

 

Looks good

 

Nice Shakester. Interesting collection of rocks
What are you going to do with the tank (fish wise)?

 

Nice tanks bud... keep us upto date

 

angel ,neon and posibly discus eventually

anything else to add on the list?

 

Very nice! Just remember that the discus needs special care as their requirements are a bit different to most other fish They're stunning fish though, so read up on them in the mean time ^^,

Angels are also really beautiful fish.

 

di$cu$$ is more like it ,but only eventually not now

 

Note that wattage is not so impotant as light spectrum,
i.e. 6400 K + 10000K
Now in the 6400K range you need Cool White and Red,and in the 10000K you need Warm White and Blue.
NO yellow lights or green lights needed.

 

high light day 9000kelvin and nature 4100kelvin

 

you guys are all so busy telling him how cool the tank is that no-one pointed out that only the swords on the left are actually true aquatics and that the rest will just die off and rot.... sorry to say this but epic fail on the the guys that replied to the photo post....

 

good eyes there henk...

 

no - i just look at stuff before i post how amazing/cool/great/fantastic something is

 

lol I should PM you before I post pics so I can get some advice

 

feel free...

the reason i get so upset when this happens is cuase SAFF went EXACTLY the same route. The guys would post the crappiest tank or tanks with discus thats got crushed coral for a substrate and all the other forum members would post something in the line of "OMG that so cool bru!"

anyway - rant over

 

And Henk "the bad-boy" Hugo is back in action. Welcome back Henk. It's been quiet without you around!

 

yo henk those baboo looking things are fake ,go figure i had them with my oscars,and what are you trying to imply ...those plants have been with me for a 2weeks already and are damn well so,,,,

 

Is it so wrong to tell a guy that his tank looks nice? Some of us are still learning and don't recognise all plants yet. Isn't this what forums are for, for the newbies to learn and the experts to correct us and help us? I thought forums were about building communities? I'm sorry, maybe I've got it all wrong.

/rant over

 

But you would'nt put 20Watt 6400K T8 with no reflectors over this tank,would you?Of course spectrum range is important,but for a beginner,light intensity would make more sense.He can then gain experience with the equipment he has got.And he's got some decent lights as standerd.He just have to "plant" accordingly.

 

Not at all Zoom. I just feel that someone should not make a comment on something that they do not have experience or knowledge of. This knowledge does not necessarily have to be in-depth but knowing that Alternanthera is a terrestrial plant is extremely basic knowledge. Even if you have bought the plant in an LFS and it didn’t survive – rather post that than something like “amazing tankâ€.

Posting on a forum for the sake of posting is not constructive and it become extremely damaging to the learning experience of a complete n00b if a n00b with a month or two’s worth of more experience feel that they are now the authority to dish out advice, which is 90% of the time incorrect or creates a false sense that they are doing something correctly.

 

Because 95% of the members of this forum is newbie`s themselves ? Nobody really care about the plants ? But henk, no one likes to tell someone that they have been f`ed in the a, even on masa people just tend to post how nice a tank looks and never really points out the faults.