aquarium plant shuffle

I moved a few around yesterday. I pulled wisteria out of the tenner and planted it in the tetra tank. In that now-empty corner put two sprigs of ludwigia trimmed from the 33.

I did miss a few pieces of wisteria- not wanting to stir up a lot of mulm, the ones that didn't come up easy I just cut at substrate level.

Unless ludwigia does really well in here and takes off, it will take some time for that space to fill back in.

Also added a few more crypt willisii into the tenner, so in front of the skull there's now a small group, not just two (these also came out of the 20H).

The wisteria stems took place of crypt balansae in the back corner of my 20H. I moved those crypts into my largest tank. I think they will do better in here with the warmer temperature, and this tank needs some taller plants. Not yet willing to give up leaf litter for a substrate bed, I planted the crypts into a container. Used a slotted plastic box strawberries came in, with more holes punched in the side for water flow. Put a root tab on the bottom before I planted the crypts in a mix of gravel and safe-t-sorb siphoned out of the 20H.

I thought it would look too obvious there's a clear box of gravel sitting in the middle of my tank, but actually it hides nicely behind the anubias roots and is flanked by the stones with buce 'green wavy' so not too noticeable.

Glimpse of it from short end of the tank. There's four rhizome pieces in there, with a few leaves each.

It's too early to tell if the crypts will go through melt, but already a few of the leaves seem to be standing up straighter. If they do well, I might find a way to plant my aponogeton capuronii in here, too. It's not looking too happy in the unheated, un-fertilized window tank.