Hi,
anybody busy creating any other projects with tanks in this unprecedented time?
Whilst not working and housebound I’ve pulled the old aquanano 40 from hibernation as my youngest has expressed an interest in having a tank in his room. My eldest has had his own tank for about 3 years now (he’s 11) which we look after together and is a great way of teaching them many things.....
Anyway, not a manicured scape but thought I’d go down the non co2 low tech route and look to add shrimp, snails and perhaps some nano fish in the future.
Used the wood I had from NAtural Jurassic and a couple of bits of seiryu, some old sand and gravel and bought a 3kg bag of tropica soil as I feel this helps stabilise water conditions for shrimp. Bought a bunch of epiphyte plants delivered from my local and went about knocking up a simple scape with the kids.
Tried out some different woods before the bogwood, and ended up with some crazy looking brute that no. 2 son loved so went with it.....
Tried it out on some old gravel first:
Then once decided, pulled it all out and refined the substrates, added soil to the rear and planted up. Literally imaged right after filling.
Kinda fun little tank, wood looks a bit like a sea monster, a dragon or a rhino or something. We’re using the original 15w aqua one light that came with the tank so will see how things fare. Aquascaper all in one fertiliser will be dosed at low tech 1ml/50l dosage (so 1ml/day) and fingers crossed can plod along very slowly without too much intervention
Plants are anubias nana, petite, microsorum windelov, microsorum trident, buce wavy green, buce tropica red and some spiky moss from member Filip Krupa....(see how that fares low tech) There is also some old dried moss left over from Natural Jurassic on one piece of wood which I’ve left on just to see if any comes to life.
Added a bit of carbon to the filter as there is a new piece of bogwood in there that will leach tannins.
No heater, just room temp which will likely be about 21-22 celcius.
Will leave it running for a few days as is to settle, then I plan to seed the filter with some existing bio media and water from my existing tank in the hope of skipping the cycle and being able to add some livestock relitively quickly starting with some snails.
cheerio,
Ady.
anybody busy creating any other projects with tanks in this unprecedented time?
Whilst not working and housebound I’ve pulled the old aquanano 40 from hibernation as my youngest has expressed an interest in having a tank in his room. My eldest has had his own tank for about 3 years now (he’s 11) which we look after together and is a great way of teaching them many things.....
Anyway, not a manicured scape but thought I’d go down the non co2 low tech route and look to add shrimp, snails and perhaps some nano fish in the future.
Used the wood I had from NAtural Jurassic and a couple of bits of seiryu, some old sand and gravel and bought a 3kg bag of tropica soil as I feel this helps stabilise water conditions for shrimp. Bought a bunch of epiphyte plants delivered from my local and went about knocking up a simple scape with the kids.
Tried out some different woods before the bogwood, and ended up with some crazy looking brute that no. 2 son loved so went with it.....
Tried it out on some old gravel first:
Then once decided, pulled it all out and refined the substrates, added soil to the rear and planted up. Literally imaged right after filling.
Kinda fun little tank, wood looks a bit like a sea monster, a dragon or a rhino or something. We’re using the original 15w aqua one light that came with the tank so will see how things fare. Aquascaper all in one fertiliser will be dosed at low tech 1ml/50l dosage (so 1ml/day) and fingers crossed can plod along very slowly without too much intervention
Plants are anubias nana, petite, microsorum windelov, microsorum trident, buce wavy green, buce tropica red and some spiky moss from member Filip Krupa....(see how that fares low tech) There is also some old dried moss left over from Natural Jurassic on one piece of wood which I’ve left on just to see if any comes to life.
Added a bit of carbon to the filter as there is a new piece of bogwood in there that will leach tannins.
No heater, just room temp which will likely be about 21-22 celcius.
Will leave it running for a few days as is to settle, then I plan to seed the filter with some existing bio media and water from my existing tank in the hope of skipping the cycle and being able to add some livestock relitively quickly starting with some snails.
cheerio,
Ady.
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