My first (adult) tank
I was trying to go natural, I didn't really have a plan just stuck in what I thought looked nice. Not as nice as most of yours but I love it. I was having a hard time getting a good picture though since there is light coming in from the windows.
Low tech and perfectly balanced. I have 10 rummies, a handful of male guppies that will be moved to my new tank when I set it up, an unknown number of pygmy cories, and a juvenile bristle-nose pleco.
Looks great. I really like the natural scape you've done. How long has it been up?
4 months or so. I had to experiment with plants, some melted off entirely (damn ludwigia) but others thrived. My java fern turned into like 30 java ferns which I spread throughout the left side of the tank. I tried some hairgrass but I think I didn't put enough nutrients in the foreground so that all died off, even with root tabs.
If you are looking for an easy carpeting plant, pearl weed is great. I never had luck with hairgrass in sand either btw.
Pearl weed may be my next try.. I can't just keep buying fish because obviously that would overstock the tank, but I can keep buying plants even if they don't "go together." I'm definitely willing to keep trying new plants to see what takes on.
If you don't find any nearby let me know, I can ship you some if you're in the US. I'm always trimming mine back.
How do you ship? I have tons of red root floaters that I have been thinking about giving away but I don't know how I should properly ship them
Last time I shipped peal weed I put it in a plastic sandwich bag with wet paper towels, then put hard cardboard around it and put it in a small padded envelope. The guy I sent it to said it made it fine. Pearl weed is pretty tough. I have red floaters too but never shipped them. I imagine you could do something similar though.