Steve Smith
Member
Hey folks. It's been a long time since I started a scape of any kind. I've not even had a tank set up for 12 months. Life has had other ideas lately.
As it stands I have limited space so I'm setting up a little tank which, most likely, will be a shrimp tank. It's an old clearseal 40x20x20 I have kicking about. I have a bunch of different equipment to choose from to put this together, but here's where I think I'll go.
40x20x20cm tank
9w/11w/13w compact light unit (several to choose from)
Filtration will be either a dennerle internal, an Azoo HOB or maybe an eheim 2213.
Colombo Florabase substrate
Hardscape will be manzanita, gravels and pebbles most likely.
Plants, I'm thinking mosses and Hydrocotyle tripartita (unsure how this will go). I want to create an overgrown look, so I'm not going for a traditional scape I don't think. It will be very simple, with the hydrocotyle occupying the top layer of the tank and probably growing both emersed and immerse. This is similar to a tank I had some years back (with a larger Hydrocotyle) and I want to recreate that overgrown jungle look.
Livestock will be cherries and perhaps a small group of micro rasbora.
This is the old tank that I'm harking back too, only this time I'll plan to do it a bit more controlled and thought out (from 2008):
As it stands I have limited space so I'm setting up a little tank which, most likely, will be a shrimp tank. It's an old clearseal 40x20x20 I have kicking about. I have a bunch of different equipment to choose from to put this together, but here's where I think I'll go.
40x20x20cm tank
9w/11w/13w compact light unit (several to choose from)
Filtration will be either a dennerle internal, an Azoo HOB or maybe an eheim 2213.
Colombo Florabase substrate
Hardscape will be manzanita, gravels and pebbles most likely.
Plants, I'm thinking mosses and Hydrocotyle tripartita (unsure how this will go). I want to create an overgrown look, so I'm not going for a traditional scape I don't think. It will be very simple, with the hydrocotyle occupying the top layer of the tank and probably growing both emersed and immerse. This is similar to a tank I had some years back (with a larger Hydrocotyle) and I want to recreate that overgrown jungle look.
Livestock will be cherries and perhaps a small group of micro rasbora.
This is the old tank that I'm harking back too, only this time I'll plan to do it a bit more controlled and thought out (from 2008):