Keetchy
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Yo yo yo. So this is going to be my 1st attempt of properly aquascaping a tank. And that's all thanks to a mate of mine who is a fellow UKAPSer (he loves reading through Journals so will definitely come across this one) Alright Harris Up until now my idea of a planted tank was just slapping any old plants in any old space in the tank and thats it, not taking time to work out a nice layout. After looking through some of your tanks, I hope I can achieve a similar natural looking tank.
300 litre tank built by ND Aquatics
Fluval FX5 external filter
2 x 200w heaters controlled by an Elitech controller and kept at 29°C
Some LED light unit bought from Ebay (doesnt have the make of it or the lumen output printed on it anywhere)
Injected C02 via an extinguisher (am planning on plumbing in an inline diffuser)
Eheim 350 surface skimmer
So because I keep discus in the tank, I'm limited to what plants I can successfully keep. I know there's a fair variety of plants that can be in discus temps so will be a case of reading into it. At the moment the tank is bare bottom as I am trying to nurse all discus back to being healthy again. As soon as they are all 100% again, I will be starting to get my aquascaping goodies.
I have 4 pieces of wood already that I will use so I just need to buy a few decent sized rocks and some Tropica Aqua substrate and I'll be ready for hardscaping.
This is 2 pieces of wood resting on each other.......
Another small piece of wood
Another piece that is really light and has a rock holding it down in the tank at the moment
Wood just sitting in the tank waiting to be properly arranged
Rocks that I have to hand but will not be using as they are far from large enough to use
300 litre tank built by ND Aquatics
Fluval FX5 external filter
2 x 200w heaters controlled by an Elitech controller and kept at 29°C
Some LED light unit bought from Ebay (doesnt have the make of it or the lumen output printed on it anywhere)
Injected C02 via an extinguisher (am planning on plumbing in an inline diffuser)
Eheim 350 surface skimmer
So because I keep discus in the tank, I'm limited to what plants I can successfully keep. I know there's a fair variety of plants that can be in discus temps so will be a case of reading into it. At the moment the tank is bare bottom as I am trying to nurse all discus back to being healthy again. As soon as they are all 100% again, I will be starting to get my aquascaping goodies.
I have 4 pieces of wood already that I will use so I just need to buy a few decent sized rocks and some Tropica Aqua substrate and I'll be ready for hardscaping.
This is 2 pieces of wood resting on each other.......
Another small piece of wood
Another piece that is really light and has a rock holding it down in the tank at the moment
Wood just sitting in the tank waiting to be properly arranged
Rocks that I have to hand but will not be using as they are far from large enough to use
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