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Finaly! A journal.. hope you like it.
how did it all started? it all began with purchasing a eledged Pygmae Nymphaea via ebay. I kept in the house for a while in a bowl of water. I didn't realy suite this lovely plant and after 25 years out of the hobby i decieded to step in again and to build an aquarium around this Nymphaea. And wanted to give here a proper stage to shine and put here as focal point in the spotlight. No idea how it would turn out in a small 60x30x30cm tank and don't have not yet very much scaping experience.
So i found me some suitable mopani at the lfs and found me some rocks in the forest and started building on her a stage. I found a piece of green slate of witch it's color intrigued me very much. But soon i found out didn't have enough of it, because i needed rocks to secure the wood. So i needed to find me some rocks that fitted to wood structure and go with the green slate. Actualy this was harder then i thought and came home with some light colored riverstone in the right shapes. and it turned out to be this.
Lily's stage
So far so good, the wood stood stable and that was my goal. at this time i didn't realy see the stones not fitting eachother, but it was all i had.. So i went on with the planting for the dry start.
While working on that i was missing something, the whole scape was to flat, so of again to the lfs digging in the wood boxes. And found my heights so far...
Here i did put lily for the first time on her stage to see how it fits.. Slowly my invisioning started to get shape.
Mean while i needed to work on my filtration and heating and get my Co2 gear up and running. Now i'm not particular an LFS fan. I'm rather responsible for my own disasters than put my faight in Eheim and followers.
So time enough to find and build me a customized system for my own..
A Sunsun Prefilter canister 2.5 liter with a DC 12 volt waterpump 600l/h to be regulated.
(never mind the little gray one, that's another story)
Here it is regulated, the voltmeter is my speedometer.. The switches bellow are lights and Heater.
For the Co2 i went on with the famous FE setup.
Installed the PH controler which i found for a lauch at a garage sale and did put the probe inline.
since i liked my tank clean of any electrical equipment, builded my own inline heating you see hanging below the pH controler.
The one in the link is already replaced with a new build in 120 watts the 80 watts went to someone else in the family.
Mean while added some more plants to the tank and filled it up and made a test run.
Time to work on the lightfixture which is to be found here, but in time already changed again and again.
At the time i'm building me a even stronger hanging lite fixture with an added full spectrum unit also from acrylic.. Almost done but still waiting on some ordered parts.
All is running on 12 volt with the use of a 450 Watt ATX power supply which you see hanging in the cabinet above the filter. It's running since april like a charm without any issues. I keep an close eye to it and do not for see any issues in the near future. I'm confident i builded a better quality then available in the LFS.
but after some time those off whit rocks started to bug me and other experienced scaper also pointed them out as very distracting. I covered them up with wood and smaller piieces of green slate. Some plants didn't realy make it all the way as expeccted and i replaced them. Like i made a mess of my HC carpet which became monte carlo by now. It's still in there but not as carpet.
Anyway, finaly after 5 moths changing and adding and some algae battles it turned out become this.
So i find my title
1- Lily on stage
2- in front of her fuly packed and emersed growing tree
3- next to here floating Wabi Kusa
3 of life
Further specifications are:
plantlist by now (but still expanding):
Eleocharis acicularis 'Mini'
Hemianthus callitrichoides Cuba
Micranthemum sp. Monte Carlo
Anubias Nana Petit
Riccardia chamedryfolia- Mini Pelia
Vesicularia dubyana Santa Claus ?
Taxiphyllum 'Flame'
Fissidens fontanus
Utricularia graminifolia
Rotala Mexicana Goias
Bucephalandra Sekadua
Pogostemon helferi
Bolbitis heudelotii
Rotala (?)
Bolbitis heteroclita difformis
Bolbitis sp. 'Buea' (Didymoglossum erosum)
Pygmea Nymphea Rosennymphe Bonsai
Lilaepsis Brasiliensis
Staurogyne repens
Leptodictyum riparium
Potamogeton gayi
Rotala Indica 'Bonsai'
echinodorus dschungelstar nr 2 kleiner bär
Lomariopsis Lineata
Zosterfolia heternata
few unknown moss sp.
Anagallis tenella (bog pimpernell)
Peperomia Rosa
peperomia Rotundifolia
salvinia
duckweed
Substrate:
Akadama
Colombo
Hardware:
Green slate
Mopani
Parameters
pH6.4
kH5-6
Gh6
Temp 25c
Lifestock
7 Corydoras pygmeas
5 Otocinclus V.
11 Hyphessobrycon amandae
5 Amano Shrimp
It all still needs a few months to go.. So enough to keep it continued and you updated with more pics in more detail.
I hope you liked my kickoff so far, it's a start.. Can't say i haven't tried.
Do you have any feedback, recomendations, critique, questions.. Anything and all?
Don't hesitate to shoot.. I'm glad to hear it all..
Thanks..
(Pfew now that's of my chest.. )
how did it all started? it all began with purchasing a eledged Pygmae Nymphaea via ebay. I kept in the house for a while in a bowl of water. I didn't realy suite this lovely plant and after 25 years out of the hobby i decieded to step in again and to build an aquarium around this Nymphaea. And wanted to give here a proper stage to shine and put here as focal point in the spotlight. No idea how it would turn out in a small 60x30x30cm tank and don't have not yet very much scaping experience.
So i found me some suitable mopani at the lfs and found me some rocks in the forest and started building on her a stage. I found a piece of green slate of witch it's color intrigued me very much. But soon i found out didn't have enough of it, because i needed rocks to secure the wood. So i needed to find me some rocks that fitted to wood structure and go with the green slate. Actualy this was harder then i thought and came home with some light colored riverstone in the right shapes. and it turned out to be this.
Lily's stage
So far so good, the wood stood stable and that was my goal. at this time i didn't realy see the stones not fitting eachother, but it was all i had.. So i went on with the planting for the dry start.
While working on that i was missing something, the whole scape was to flat, so of again to the lfs digging in the wood boxes. And found my heights so far...
Here i did put lily for the first time on her stage to see how it fits.. Slowly my invisioning started to get shape.
Mean while i needed to work on my filtration and heating and get my Co2 gear up and running. Now i'm not particular an LFS fan. I'm rather responsible for my own disasters than put my faight in Eheim and followers.
So time enough to find and build me a customized system for my own..
A Sunsun Prefilter canister 2.5 liter with a DC 12 volt waterpump 600l/h to be regulated.
(never mind the little gray one, that's another story)
Here it is regulated, the voltmeter is my speedometer.. The switches bellow are lights and Heater.
For the Co2 i went on with the famous FE setup.
Installed the PH controler which i found for a lauch at a garage sale and did put the probe inline.
since i liked my tank clean of any electrical equipment, builded my own inline heating you see hanging below the pH controler.
The one in the link is already replaced with a new build in 120 watts the 80 watts went to someone else in the family.
Mean while added some more plants to the tank and filled it up and made a test run.
Time to work on the lightfixture which is to be found here, but in time already changed again and again.
At the time i'm building me a even stronger hanging lite fixture with an added full spectrum unit also from acrylic.. Almost done but still waiting on some ordered parts.
All is running on 12 volt with the use of a 450 Watt ATX power supply which you see hanging in the cabinet above the filter. It's running since april like a charm without any issues. I keep an close eye to it and do not for see any issues in the near future. I'm confident i builded a better quality then available in the LFS.
but after some time those off whit rocks started to bug me and other experienced scaper also pointed them out as very distracting. I covered them up with wood and smaller piieces of green slate. Some plants didn't realy make it all the way as expeccted and i replaced them. Like i made a mess of my HC carpet which became monte carlo by now. It's still in there but not as carpet.
Anyway, finaly after 5 moths changing and adding and some algae battles it turned out become this.
So i find my title
1- Lily on stage
2- in front of her fuly packed and emersed growing tree
3- next to here floating Wabi Kusa
3 of life
Further specifications are:
plantlist by now (but still expanding):
Eleocharis acicularis 'Mini'
Hemianthus callitrichoides Cuba
Micranthemum sp. Monte Carlo
Anubias Nana Petit
Riccardia chamedryfolia- Mini Pelia
Vesicularia dubyana Santa Claus ?
Taxiphyllum 'Flame'
Fissidens fontanus
Utricularia graminifolia
Rotala Mexicana Goias
Bucephalandra Sekadua
Pogostemon helferi
Bolbitis heudelotii
Rotala (?)
Bolbitis heteroclita difformis
Bolbitis sp. 'Buea' (Didymoglossum erosum)
Pygmea Nymphea Rosennymphe Bonsai
Lilaepsis Brasiliensis
Staurogyne repens
Leptodictyum riparium
Potamogeton gayi
Rotala Indica 'Bonsai'
echinodorus dschungelstar nr 2 kleiner bär
Lomariopsis Lineata
Zosterfolia heternata
few unknown moss sp.
Anagallis tenella (bog pimpernell)
Peperomia Rosa
peperomia Rotundifolia
salvinia
duckweed
Substrate:
Akadama
Colombo
Hardware:
Green slate
Mopani
Parameters
pH6.4
kH5-6
Gh6
Temp 25c
Lifestock
7 Corydoras pygmeas
5 Otocinclus V.
11 Hyphessobrycon amandae
5 Amano Shrimp
It all still needs a few months to go.. So enough to keep it continued and you updated with more pics in more detail.
I hope you liked my kickoff so far, it's a start.. Can't say i haven't tried.
Do you have any feedback, recomendations, critique, questions.. Anything and all?
Don't hesitate to shoot.. I'm glad to hear it all..
Thanks..
(Pfew now that's of my chest.. )
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