I love this tank too. . .29G planted SA

Beautiful plants! Do you have CO2?

The angel looks good and so do your plants!

Otto's on the plant to the right

Thanks for the nice comments and good job finding the oto! I like to play 'where's waldo' looking for them among the plants.

Laurel said:

Do you have CO2?

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No I don't. For lighting I have a Life Glo 2 20watt bulb in the canopy and for extra nutrients use root fertilizer tabs. I am happy with the simplicity and the plants do well enough for me.

They look fantastic for no CO2. Are you not using excel either? I'm very impressed!

Laurel said:

Are you not using excel either?

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I have Seachem's Flourish on hand, but rarely use it. Sometimes after I used it I would notice burnt leaves on my java fern. I think adding the nutrients into the water column threw off my simple equation of lighting=co2=nutrients. I have learned that increasing only one part of the equation, i.e. fertilizer, without increasing the others makes for problems.

I do use the Flourish Tabs in the substrate- especially under the swords- every three months.

I thank my fish as they do the rest by simply being there. That's part of what I love about planted aquariums- the full circle that the plants and fish give each other- if that makes sense. . .