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The Island - ADA 75P - It's been a while....

Mark Keetch said:
Thanks for the advice bud. I do have some floating plants but not many. I should probably get a few more. Fast growers in the tank are Heteranthera Zosterifolia, Hygrophila Compact and 4 or 5 stems of orange juice.
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What I learnt very quickly on here when I first started is that my perception of 'heavily planted' was way off the mark :lol:

For instance I had about 7 pots worth in my first tank and thought it was packed, in this scape I started with about 12 pots of rotala alone and now probably have an equivalent of at least 30+ pots even after thinning it out (due to replanting) 😉
 
Kalum said:
What I learnt very quickly on here when I first started is that my perception of 'heavily planted' was way off the mark :lol:

For instance I had about 7 pots worth in my first tank and thought it was packed, in this scape I started with about 12 pots of rotala alone and now probably have an equivalent of at least 30+ pots even after thinning it out (due to replanting) 😉
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Haha yeah I'm probably in the same boat as you. This site has definitely been an eye opener for us 😱😱
 
Shinobi said:
Nice one, looking forward to see what you do with it.

I'm personally waiting for the IV to come out (hopefully here in February).
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Yeh I'd love to wait on the mk4 as well but it will be out of my price range when first out and got this for an offer I couldn't refuse. Loving the size and feel of it compared to my old Canon DSLRs I had a few years ago

Trying to wade through the world of lenses at the minute, think my first purchase will be a fairly cheap walk about lens like the samyang 24mm f2.8 and it might double up as a good lens for shooting the tanks as well, any tips on lenses are more than welcome
 
Made a last minute decision to make my first ever EAPLC entry last week with this tank. Scape is far from 'ready' and needs a couple more months to mature and it may not be a traditional 'nature' scape but it will be a good learning curve for me

Not expecting it to do well at all as it's not a patch on the vast majority of natural scapes entered in this but it's just a bit of fun and was a good excuse to use my new camera :lol:

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Mark Keetch said:
Looking bang on bud :thumbup: If that's not fully grown out yet, cant wait to see when it is. And stunning appistagramma too

That device stuck on the left panel of the tank, is that your diffuser?
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Thanks for the kind words mate, the white ugly thing is a chihiros doctor :thumbup:

Tankless said:
It looks very good. What size were the manzanita pieces that you used within the scape?
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Thanks @Tankless, manzanita was various pieces between 20cm and 60cm long

Tim Harrison said:
It's looking great, good luck in the EAPLC 😉
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Cheers Tim much appreciated, think I'll need it but looking forward to seeing how it all works and see if I get the bug for future entries or not :snaphappy:
 
Thanks @Onoma1 🙂

Much appreciated @CooKieS and it was a bit more orange/red last week on the run up to the 'final shot' when it was at 80% on the vivid but it also started bringing on GSA on the glass so it's back down to 60% while I try to understand why (and lost a bit of colour on new growth in turn)
 
Kalum said:
Made a last minute decision to make my first ever EAPLC entry last week
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Nice one @Kalum :thumbup:

Have at it mate and wishing you the best of luck in the EAPLC 😎
 
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