Adding to the 28g Tank

Today I picked up a small piece of slate and a new plant to help spruce up the 28-gallon tank.  A few plants were rearranged and the algae was scrubbed off the front and side panels of the tank.

And a close-up on the new calico piece of slate:

The new, yet unidentified, background plant:

This tank looks so bare.  Hopefully once the lighting situation is under control, the plants will grow a little faster than the algae.  There's a generic bulb in one of the strips that casts an unattractive yellow hue on the whole tank, so eventually I hope to replace it with a Flora-Sun bulb.

Comments

[raymond]

Your live plants do look great and will add beauty to any aquarium as well as absorbing harmeful nitrites. I think you are correct about the bulb and I am not sure your piece of slate adds to the tanks beauty either.

[dsmfishgal]

Thanks for stopping by Raymond! I'm unsure if plants are capable of absorbing nitrites, though I do know they absorb nitrates.

The piece of slate caught my eye in the store because it is so funky. My "style" (if you can really call it that) tends to be eclectic and somewhat eccentric (especially outside of aquaria). Combine that with little sense for aquascaping, and wa-la! This is what I came up with. hehe

But aesthetics aside, the slate was purchased to create a new hiding place for the bottom-dwellers. :)

[julis sujai]

The great aquarium info. I'm an angler, not a fighter.

[Michelle]

I've recently wrote a post about using fertilizers to prevent algae from appearing. You might want to try it

[aquarium]

I don't think your fish tank looks bare at all. It's actually quite nice thanks for sharing your pictures I enjoyed them.

[Abbey]

"I'm unsure if plants are capable of absorbing nitrites, though I do know they absorb nitrates."

Or did I have that backwards? Never can keep it straight, but luckily I don't dose the tank and have to keep track of that stuff.

Thanks for posting "aquarium." I'm trying to sell the tanks now that it's time to move.

[Abbey]

Oh, and the unidentified plants died quickly. They turned out to not be true aquatic plants (wish the pet stores wouldn't sell plants like this).