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MC Mountains - 12g long

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Hello, this is my 12g long bookshelf tank, currently in dry start format, I will hopefully flood within the next few weeks.

Fire bookshelf tank. 90cm Length x 25cm Height x 21cm Depth in 8mm low iron clear glass.
Light - Up Aqua Z LED
Hardscape - Seiryu stone
Plants - Monte Carlo, Hair Grass, Dwarf HG, Mini Pellia, and Fissidens
Substrate - Recycled the Aquasoil from the last scape.

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The twigs of driftwood are just placed in at the moment, I need to stick them to longer sticks to anchor them into the soil, mite try stick some moss to them.

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Nice! I can never find that type of stone where I am (Paisley/Glasgow)
 
I am all the way over in Australia, we seem to have a lot of it, not sure if its imported or what tho. Ive removed all the twigs I just felt they made the scape a bit messy, I also moved all the regular hair grass to the right behind the rocks
 
Some of the wood with moss on at base of rocks giving a old roots feel towards substrate?I agree nice rocks
 
Drilled the top of my stand today, made the holes about 4cm should be able to squeeze double taps through for ease of cleaning etc, edging closer to flooding, just need my pipes to turn up from Hong kong! Mite get a little more DHG to speed up the carpeting of the back left cnr... any ideas on how fast this stuff spreads?

Moved all the regular HG to the right behind the rocks, I will keep the left side low.

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Nice! I can never find that type of stone where I am (Paisley/Glasgow)

Hey! Try Fishkeeper Scotland in Coatbridge (Maidenhead aquatics). If they don't have any in justnow, there'll be some on the way from Unipac.

Cracking bookshelf tank, look forward to seeing how the DSM goes! :)

Cheers
 
Hey! Try Fishkeeper Scotland in Coatbridge (Maidenhead aquatics). If they don't have any in justnow, there'll be some on the way from Unipac.

Cracking bookshelf tank, look forward to seeing how the DSM goes! :)

Cheers

Cheers! Tried a few times there and the one at braehead Glasgow, but I must be missing them :(
 
Day 70ish of DSM... waiting on my glass pipes I ordered of ebay, will flood as soon as they get here!

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Flooded this tank today, everything is looking good, flow seems good as I have a skimmer down one end. The Up aqua inline diffuser seems to work well the tank is full of co2 / o2 bubbles, this is what it looks like as of this evening! Only issue i had was the ISTA check valve had a leak so i am just relying on the bubble counter to stop back flow... will get a decent check valve ASAP!

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Picked up some tissue culture plants today, which are pretty rare in Western Australia, we have crazy laws around importing flora and fauna, some of the tightest if not tightest in the world so it was nice to see a wide range of tissue culture plants at one of the better aquarium stores in Perth. As I am keeping planting fairly simple in this tank I only picked up some helferi and a bit more DHG

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Here is a iphone photo after I planted the new hair grass, tank seems to be growing in nicely and is already cycled as I used re-cycled soil and a canister filter from a pervious setup. I added about 8 native "Dawrin" algae eating shrimp, I will probably add about 15 more, the dont really breed in these conditions but seem very happy.

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Updated FTS, really captured the tank pearling away at the end of the lighting period

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Also took a video which can be seen here:
 

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Took the black background away and added some LED lighting, mainly because I have been running co2 at 0.5 bps for 24/7 and the bubbles really stand out on the back background.

I need to try trim and clean this tank on the weekend, I am going to try rig up some tube to the scissors to minimise the clean up of MC trimmings.

Excuse the random anubias cutting and random plants on the inlet... just seeing if they will grow a little before adding them to my low tech tank.

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Can I ask how long your photoperiod is each day? Considering a similar sized height tank, and my previous attempts were thwarted by algae, and possibly overpowered lighting
 
Can I ask how long your photoperiod is each day? Considering a similar sized height tank, and my previous attempts were thwarted by algae, and possibly overpowered lighting

Lighting is currently 5hrs per day, I think the LED light would be considered a low / medium output, I also run the co2 24/7 but at a very slow 0.5bps. No real algae problems yet, but i guess its early days :p
 
I took a very wobbly iphone video of a shrimp swimming against the flow, they do this often, its fun to watch

 
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