Planted Aquarium
These few days I notice that the water plants are growing brown spots and I think they are dying or having a brown algae infection. This is such ill news to me as I hope they will grow in the gravel and spread through the tank like the pictures I saw in the internet.
Last night I spent so much time reading about water plants and there’s a lady in the US who is so professional in keeping water plants she has a room with over 2 dozens of tanks with different species of water plants. And she didn’t really use CO2 or filter or fertilizer, but all the plants just bloom like wild …er.. weed?! I have learned a lot from reading her website and is hoping I could do something similar with one planted aquarium of my own.
My ideal aquarium is a miniature garden with lots of moss, and green plants while my fish is able to swim around and play hide and seek, it would be such a beautiful scene. Yet I still couldn’t get a really good and step by step (baby step by step mind you) to get a planted aquarium. And I do understand that temperature is a big factor as US is colder than Malaysia, and I couldn’t afford air con in the living room (nor any part of the house), so I have to find something really suits my environment’s condition.
There are mainly 3 water plants which I am really interested to grow.
Pygmy Chain Sword
Java Moss
Hornwort
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Since my fish tank is really small, and the fish is a lot (7 is quite a number I guess for a 3 gallon), so I have to keep my plants small in size but many in order to look lushly and full bloom. I saw a lot of extremely seductive pictures from this AMODA company, pioneering in miniature garden planted aquarium, they all look extremely nice and I would die to get one. But of course I know there’s a long way to achieve that on my own, and my first step of all is to find the plants that I want and see if they could fit together, and also with the fish I keep. Growing them, that’s another long story to tell in future.
