Bonsai?

[Tindomul1of9]

Nice roots!!! Looks nice.

[skeletonhand]

I actually bought 3 bonsi ficus and put them in my tank. I kept them in the original containers and seperated from the water. Lets see what happens. I've started some moss and I'm also using Soleirolia soleirolii as a groundcover (on it's way). I've got some cork bark that I want to use for a background. Any ideas on what plants I could attach to it. An orchid would be nice or even a moss that would grow on it.
Sorry for the questions didn't mean to hi-jack your thread.
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[Studdlygoof]

Hey its a forum...the thread belongs to no one...the picture of your tank is kind of deceptive as to the size of your tank but I would assume its around a 30 gal...IMO regular sized plants would throw off the proportions to the tank so I would look for some minturized plants...Black Jungle has some I believe

Also be careful of leaving the ficus in their original pots for too long...over time the roots will grow into one massive ball and become root bound and acutally strangle itself...don't know how into bonsai's you are but when you train a tree/plant for a smaller pot you have to do periodic (sp?) root trimmings...just a heads up...good luck

[Landon]

As far as plants for the background I would stick wiht some of the smaller peperomia species and a few small bromeliads. Im with Stud on the size though. You dont want to do large plants and end up taking the bonsai look away.

[skeletonhand]

Believe it or not, it's actually a 10 gallon. I've had other plants in there, but they grew way to fast. I want to go with as small as plants as possible to keep everything in scale. Right now I have 40 watts of 6500k and 10000k lighting (80 watts if I turn the other bulb on) . I've never had bonsai's before so this is more or less an experiment for me. Thanks for the ideas!!