Evening All,
Apologies for not posting for a few months. Have not had a good run of late. And have Moved twice since February. And Have now stopped working due to my Health.
I am not letting this get me down, so As I moved into my Brand Spanking New 3bed detached house on friday afternoon. I was itching to get the tank out of Storage and get it setup.
Started setting it up on saturday Night.
So its the EA600 with Anthracite Grey Matt Stand.
Sadly there is a massive scratch along the left hand corner of the stand. Hoping to find a scratch filler in this color. Scratch must have occured when it was being transported from storage.
Tank: EA Aquascaper 600 is in the Dining Room.
Lighting: Chihiro A601 White & Chihiro A601 RGB on Chihiro Acrylic Double unit stand.
Filter: Jebao 1200LPH with Big JBL Sponge prefilter (glued onto the Inlet)
Substrate: Dennerle Yukon 5mm & River 5mm x1 box of each - Really Like how the two mixed look.
Hardscape: Dried Sea Ferns x6 ranging from 10 to 40 cm width/height, with some of the larger peices above the water. With Moss attached and shredded Marimo Moss. Also Lava Rocks covered in Moss.
Planting: Moss Only with red root floating plants.
Ferts: Aquascaper 5ml per day.
Tank seeded with EA bio pearls and 1 bottle of ATM colony.
List of plants used:
Phyllanthus Fluitans Red Rooter
Moss:
Taiwan Moss x3 Mesh Pads
Weeping moss
Christmas moss
Giant moss
Spiky moss
Peacock moss
Java moss
Creeping moss
Pelia -monoselium tenereum
Feather moss
Taiwan moss
Marimo
Fish to be Housed:
Longfin Czech Rams Hareem
Platinum Magenta Guppies x2 Males to Females x6
Pair of Honey Gouramies
x3 Twig Cats.
On Order:
Pipefish - x10 Microphis Deocata and x10 Doryichthys Martensii
Shrimp: On Order
x200 Mixed Sakura red,yellow,orange,blue,green,black, blue diamond
Shrimp:
x3 Vampires
Crabs:
Of Course Thai Micro Crabs, by the droves, so that they are scampering amongst the ferns.
Snails:
Blue Pearl and Pink Galaxy Ramshorns and a few elephants.
Feeding: Full range of NT Labs tropical and Shrimp foods with Micro Crumb for the Filter feeders.
Also live feeds of Daphnia and Brine Shrimp and Ostracods. maybe a few gammarus
I wanted to use sea ferns for a long time, since seeing them used for Ecospheres for Opae Ula Shrimp.
And as soon as I sourced them, I knew exactly what and how I wanted to use them.
I wanted them to slowly be covered in Moss and become fronds of moss.
Also the ferns will give a massive biofilm and grazing surface for all the shrimp and snails. I have placed the biggest fern at the back and then spread them out in a fashion around the midground of the tank. with two peices at angles into the front corners of the tank.
I am so happy with how they look and cant wait for the moss to attach to them and start growing. I shredded a bad of christmas moss and let it settle into the fronds.
The Lava rocks have been covered in various moss and will see what happens as its all an experiment.
This scape is going to be a longterm scape. And will enoy watching it evolve over the next few years.
And Yes this time I am sticking to just moss as the main focus of the planting. And looking forward to how this will grow.
The main purpose of this scape is for the Pipefish, to give them so much hunting grounds to predate on the shrimp and snails. Also the fry from any of the fish within.
I have found a local source of rilli shrimp in an array colors, and waiting for them to go on sale. To add to the mix.
I will be taking pix over the next few days once the tank has cleared up and have cleaned the glass.
As moving an buying everything for the house takes time. Who knew how much you had to buy when starting from scratch.
Apologies for not posting for a few months. Have not had a good run of late. And have Moved twice since February. And Have now stopped working due to my Health.
I am not letting this get me down, so As I moved into my Brand Spanking New 3bed detached house on friday afternoon. I was itching to get the tank out of Storage and get it setup.
Started setting it up on saturday Night.
So its the EA600 with Anthracite Grey Matt Stand.
Sadly there is a massive scratch along the left hand corner of the stand. Hoping to find a scratch filler in this color. Scratch must have occured when it was being transported from storage.
Tank: EA Aquascaper 600 is in the Dining Room.
Lighting: Chihiro A601 White & Chihiro A601 RGB on Chihiro Acrylic Double unit stand.
Filter: Jebao 1200LPH with Big JBL Sponge prefilter (glued onto the Inlet)
Substrate: Dennerle Yukon 5mm & River 5mm x1 box of each - Really Like how the two mixed look.
Hardscape: Dried Sea Ferns x6 ranging from 10 to 40 cm width/height, with some of the larger peices above the water. With Moss attached and shredded Marimo Moss. Also Lava Rocks covered in Moss.
Planting: Moss Only with red root floating plants.
Ferts: Aquascaper 5ml per day.
Tank seeded with EA bio pearls and 1 bottle of ATM colony.
List of plants used:
Phyllanthus Fluitans Red Rooter
Moss:
Taiwan Moss x3 Mesh Pads
Weeping moss
Christmas moss
Giant moss
Spiky moss
Peacock moss
Java moss
Creeping moss
Pelia -monoselium tenereum
Feather moss
Taiwan moss
Marimo
Fish to be Housed:
Longfin Czech Rams Hareem
Platinum Magenta Guppies x2 Males to Females x6
Pair of Honey Gouramies
x3 Twig Cats.
On Order:
Pipefish - x10 Microphis Deocata and x10 Doryichthys Martensii
Shrimp: On Order
x200 Mixed Sakura red,yellow,orange,blue,green,black, blue diamond
Shrimp:
x3 Vampires
Crabs:
Of Course Thai Micro Crabs, by the droves, so that they are scampering amongst the ferns.
Snails:
Blue Pearl and Pink Galaxy Ramshorns and a few elephants.
Feeding: Full range of NT Labs tropical and Shrimp foods with Micro Crumb for the Filter feeders.
Also live feeds of Daphnia and Brine Shrimp and Ostracods. maybe a few gammarus
I wanted to use sea ferns for a long time, since seeing them used for Ecospheres for Opae Ula Shrimp.
And as soon as I sourced them, I knew exactly what and how I wanted to use them.
I wanted them to slowly be covered in Moss and become fronds of moss.
Also the ferns will give a massive biofilm and grazing surface for all the shrimp and snails. I have placed the biggest fern at the back and then spread them out in a fashion around the midground of the tank. with two peices at angles into the front corners of the tank.
I am so happy with how they look and cant wait for the moss to attach to them and start growing. I shredded a bad of christmas moss and let it settle into the fronds.
The Lava rocks have been covered in various moss and will see what happens as its all an experiment.
This scape is going to be a longterm scape. And will enoy watching it evolve over the next few years.
And Yes this time I am sticking to just moss as the main focus of the planting. And looking forward to how this will grow.
The main purpose of this scape is for the Pipefish, to give them so much hunting grounds to predate on the shrimp and snails. Also the fry from any of the fish within.
I have found a local source of rilli shrimp in an array colors, and waiting for them to go on sale. To add to the mix.
I will be taking pix over the next few days once the tank has cleared up and have cleaned the glass.
As moving an buying everything for the house takes time. Who knew how much you had to buy when starting from scratch.
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