| Aquarium plants are as important to aquariums as | | | | aquarium. If the level is allowed to fall below the |
| water is to fish. Aquarium plants add more life to | | | | top angle iron the tank looks like a container |
| aquarium and make it to look beautiful while | | | | holding water. |
| completing the aquarium community structure. | | | | Aquarium Lighting is also important for aquarium |
| The most important thing to bear in mind with | | | | plants |
| plants is to form an attractive background, leaving | | | | This depends greatly on whether you intend to |
| ample space so the fish can swim undisturbed and | | | | successfully grow plants or not. Lack of light |
| be seen. The tall, grassy type is best planted at | | | | causes colorful fish to fade and clanch-reds to |
| intervals in rows, while the feathery ones look | | | | pink, green to white. The two main methods of |
| better when they are bunched into small clumps, | | | | lighting aquarium are by the INCADESCENT and |
| which makes them to appear like branching | | | | FLOURESCENT. |
| bushes. | | | | The total amount of light required is a matter of |
| When planting rooted plants, hold the tips of the | | | | trial and error. Too much light will turn the water |
| bunch of roots between the thumb and second | | | | green; too little will stunt plant growth. |
| finger and rest them on the sand. Now with the | | | | The lighting can be natural or artificial or a |
| first finger push the upper part of the roots | | | | combination of both. The best position is near a |
| (where they join the stem) about 2cm into the | | | | north facing window. This should provide the ideal |
| sand. Without moving this finger scrape with the | | | | amount of indirect lights which an be |
| thumb and second finger some sand over any | | | | supplemented by artificial light. |
| uncovered portion of the root. | | | | The lighting should be housed in wood constructed |
| When putting in rootless plants in bunches, the | | | | stylishly with the furniture and placed above the |
| method explained above is repeated, but this time | | | | tank. if there is no natural day light, the lights |
| the lower ends of the stems are placed together | | | | should be left on for approximately eight hours |
| and treated exactly as if they were roots. | | | | per day. |
| It is important that the water surface should be | | | | If the water turns green, you cut down on the |
| right up to the lower edge of the top angle iron | | | | light. |
| of the tank, so that looking from the front the | | | | The best light for showing off an aquarium comes |
| water surface can not be seen and the viewer | | | | from behind. |
| gets the impression that there is no water in the | | | | |