owh nice. hope to see they thrive with velvety red bushes

anyway, its competition time again:

I actually planning to do DSM for a few days just let the plants hold a lil stronger before I flood it, but the plants I got are already submerged, so I think it's no good to plant submerged plants with DSM?

It will be submerged, can't wait for the weekend!

Any foreground plant you using?

I ordered 3 different species of rotala stem plants. - Blood red, red and green. Hopefully will get a nice shade of red to yellowish green.

Ic.... how bout carpeting plant? Lol... i tot foreground plant are those carpeting plant....

Ah... oops, sorry. Mixed up with foreground and background.

Background is Rotala, foreground is monte carlo, maybe mixed with HC.

Some people actually use rotala in foreground to achieve depth of field. Eg. creating nature landscape. You'd see them put carpeting plant like HC, monte, java moss in background and some background plants moved to foreground. You can see that in recent years ADA competition.

Ic... how bout you? Planning any HC or MC?
I am planning on a mini Iwagumi style tank.... everything ready, just havent scape yet... plan to do it this weekend....
See if you do any carpeting, then we can share experience...

Nice, initially i wanted to Iwagumi too, but I like the colourful plants and natural look, so decided to add in more plants to colour things up.

I'll be planting MC and HC altogether. So far, most LFS are selling Wasakubi, so I might need to separate them and plant one by one. I'll post photos.

Great... my taste, as simple as possible, kind dislike colorful... too patchy for my taste, but is all depend on individual....
Will look forward for your photo... i will try post mine too when ready with the scaping work

Anyone has a good and reasonable priced co2 glass diffuser to recommend?

Hey, i tried some hc dsm, today sone of the leaves turn dark, any idea why? Using aquasoil ada. Tq

Wow, Nice....

maybe water temp.

Dsm also need maintain water temp?

And my multi million question, for mc, dsm or submerge technique?

MC can be done with DSM or submerge. There's a popular post created by George Farmer, called one pot challenge. Basically, using only one pot of MC to plant the whole carpet.

http://scapefu.com/aquascape-analysis-of-g...ne-pot-iwagumi/

The MC he used was emerged plant.

Yea, saw that journal.
Problem is, too much speculation on the actual technique, especially tropical country against 4 season countries.

Macam kurang yakin with dsm je

Yesterday found a Awesome beach (In Selangor) to hunt for awesome root type drift wood...

Got a car boot full of it yesterday...

Any idea what are those white spots?


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Just sharing my newly set up dry start Iwagumi tank. I'm actually a newbie to planted tanks so suggestions are welcomed! I bought about 5 patches of Monte Carlo from the fish shop which cost me about rm55. Do you think I need more? Cuz after I seperated the patches it suddenly turned out to become so little.

This post has been edited by Marimo Hut: Aug 25 2015, 03:29 PM