siddaa1
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- Joined
- 1 Oct 2013
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- 38
Hello everyone and welcome to my first ever attempt at the wonderful art of Aquascaping.
Got my first tank a few months ago after my girlfriend who keeps fish and has done for a long time decided she wanted a small tank for her living room to keep shrimp in........I thought SHRIMP, is she mental !!
Anyway I bought her the Aquanano 30 as she didn't want the 40 and I started googling tanks and nano tanks especially looking at what she might have in mind. I was instantly bitten by the bug and bought myself the Aquanano 40. That was a few months ago and I've only just about got everything ready to go properly. Anyway enough jibber jabber
specs:
Tank- Aqua one aquanano 40
Cabinet - Just a sturdy beside chest of drwaers
Lighting - TMC 500 Tile
Filter - Built in
Substrate - Tropica Plant Growth Substrate, regular Aquarium gravel, fert balls to insert in medium
Hardscape - Inert river rock & blue slate, redmoor root
CO2 - Pressurised (yet to buy)
Ferts - undecided
Plants - Hemianthus Callitrichoides, fissidens fontanus, Hydrocotyle
Fauna - undecided
So thats where I am so far, I'm going to be adding maybe more plants and mosses as I go, and Fauna is going to be varieties of shrimp and some very small fish. I've got other bits and bobs I'm collecting along the way and am going to be dryscaping whilst I sort my co2, spray bar etc. The diffuser is going to be located in the sump area below the pump and co2 potentially out theu the spray bar I think but I generally change my mind on lots of aspects when I ready something new
Anyway here are some inital pics, there's obviously much more work to go, the slate I need to collect from the girlfriends and smash into smaller interesting pieces to populate the tank as it does look barren.
Excuse the thread on the wood, I've just used that to increase the high of what will be a tree covered in Fissidens moss, I'll bond the wood together when I get some glue.
And heres a view from the side
There's a long way to go, but I'm just happy that I've actually managed to start, and I'm trying to maintain a budget so I generally spend more time scouring fleabay than I do working on the actual tank
All comments are very welcome and any pointers along the way are greatly appreciated. I'll keep upto date with pictures as it evolves and thankyou to this website and the people who post for some wonderful advice and insipration, not to mention the outstanding tanks everyone creates.
All the Best
Anthony
Got my first tank a few months ago after my girlfriend who keeps fish and has done for a long time decided she wanted a small tank for her living room to keep shrimp in........I thought SHRIMP, is she mental !!
Anyway I bought her the Aquanano 30 as she didn't want the 40 and I started googling tanks and nano tanks especially looking at what she might have in mind. I was instantly bitten by the bug and bought myself the Aquanano 40. That was a few months ago and I've only just about got everything ready to go properly. Anyway enough jibber jabber
specs:
Tank- Aqua one aquanano 40
Cabinet - Just a sturdy beside chest of drwaers
Lighting - TMC 500 Tile
Filter - Built in
Substrate - Tropica Plant Growth Substrate, regular Aquarium gravel, fert balls to insert in medium
Hardscape - Inert river rock & blue slate, redmoor root
CO2 - Pressurised (yet to buy)
Ferts - undecided
Plants - Hemianthus Callitrichoides, fissidens fontanus, Hydrocotyle
Fauna - undecided
So thats where I am so far, I'm going to be adding maybe more plants and mosses as I go, and Fauna is going to be varieties of shrimp and some very small fish. I've got other bits and bobs I'm collecting along the way and am going to be dryscaping whilst I sort my co2, spray bar etc. The diffuser is going to be located in the sump area below the pump and co2 potentially out theu the spray bar I think but I generally change my mind on lots of aspects when I ready something new
Anyway here are some inital pics, there's obviously much more work to go, the slate I need to collect from the girlfriends and smash into smaller interesting pieces to populate the tank as it does look barren.
Excuse the thread on the wood, I've just used that to increase the high of what will be a tree covered in Fissidens moss, I'll bond the wood together when I get some glue.
And heres a view from the side
There's a long way to go, but I'm just happy that I've actually managed to start, and I'm trying to maintain a budget so I generally spend more time scouring fleabay than I do working on the actual tank
All comments are very welcome and any pointers along the way are greatly appreciated. I'll keep upto date with pictures as it evolves and thankyou to this website and the people who post for some wonderful advice and insipration, not to mention the outstanding tanks everyone creates.
All the Best
Anthony