Marsilea Minuta RCS tank

Here are a couple of photos of my 3g picotope with a decent carpet of marsilea minuta. This tank has ADA Aquasoil Amazonia II as a substrate with marsilea minuta, ludwigia repens narrow-leaf, water lettuce, water moss, and watermeal (not on purpose...). There are some micro swords and java moss mixed in along the bottom. The only intentional fauna are red cherry shrimp.

I've had an on-going battle with green water in this tank, so please excuse the slightly-cloudy water (this is after a double 90% water change) and please ignore the green spot algae in places on the glass (I couldn't get it all off on account of the curved glass). I don't dose any ferts here and it's lit with a 18W CFL in a finnex reflector lamp. This is likely the cause of my green water; I know I tried a 13w a while back and I wasn't terribly happy with it, but I don't remember why. Oh well Maybe I'll try a 13W again...

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Thanks for looking!

pbmax

As near as I can piece together, the marsilea in this tank has been growing for at least a year, probably around 18 months. The right side of the tank was planted more recently - about 6 months ago I think.

It looks nice. Great work.

Hi pbmax,

Nice job growing out the Marsilea minuta! Based upon the elongated leaves the Ludwigia species in your tank looks a little more like Ludwigia repens X L. arcuata. [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]

Wow, pbmax, that looks wonderful!!

madness wrote:It looks nice. Great work.

Thanks!

Seattle_Aquarist wrote:Hi pbmax,

Nice job growing out the Marsilea minuta! Based upon the elongated leaves the Ludwigia species in your tank looks a little more like Ludwigia repens X L. arcuata. [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]

Thanks! At least I got the common name right (according to the bing)

PokeSephiroth wrote:Wow, pbmax, that looks wonderful!!

Thanks!

Just to add to what everyone else said - this is amazing! Great grow-out. Any CO2? I didn't see you mention it.....I haven't had much luck with the CO2 personally.

Thanks It's not perfect (I need to trim out some of the original leaves from the 2nd planting), but it brightens up the bathroom. This isn't necessarily a good thing around 7pm when the lights go out while someone is in there and has neglected to turn on the overhead lights on account of the bright tank light.

Nope - no CO2. I tried CO2 a while back on a different tank, but my regulator went. I do pretty well without it.

nice growth on the marsilea I should have bought some from you. =) Got a few in my 12G that I hope to carpet as nice as yours.

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That's a good start!

It's pretty indestructible stuff, just takes a while to grow. I cut mine into 1- and 2-node pieces when I planted, more 2-node than 1-node. I don't recall any of it dying off. My latest planting came from a glass vase with aquasoil and a CFL over it where it went nuts. I still have that, but it's a mess of algae... really need to clean that up. And there's nowhere else for it to grow either...

pbmax wrote:Thanks It's not perfect (I need to trim out some of the original leaves from the 2nd planting), but it brightens up the bathroom. This isn't necessarily a good thing around 7pm when the lights go out while someone is in there and has neglected to turn on the overhead lights on account of the bright tank light.

.oO WOW, HAHA!!!!



I saved the names of the plants, me like alOt! Thanks for sharing.