Apologies for the lack of updates on this one.
This little scape has been a dream. I had very mild diatoms after a few weeks which went as quickly as they came. The tank received daily water changes for three weeks at which point I reduced them down as the system settled. I had a few in vitro bucephelandra needle melt, but very limited and I feel the prolonged daily water changes helped.
The lighting remains on very low intensity for this slow growing scape, but it has slowly filled in and is developing exactly how I envisaged. Not a great deal of change in the plants, however they do now look mature and natural and the scape holds a huge amount of interest for me and i get lost in it for long periods of time. For such a small scape it has a lot of engagement, attributed to the scape style, plant choice and the livestock choices I eventually made.
I wanted tucano tetra, but found with the hallway location beside the frequently opened front door the temperature was too cool. I opted to add an in-line heater to maintain temperature and allow me the fish I wanted.
A group of 12 tucano were added after a couple of weeks of adding various caridina shrimp, blue bolts, fancy red tigers and cbs.
I then added three parotocinclus haroldi to finish the fish stocking.
The combination is so interesting and the tank is buzzing with activity. The tucano are so beautiful and the shrimp are like little jelly sweets popping around the scape.
Here is a collection of images:
Cheerio,
This little scape has been a dream. I had very mild diatoms after a few weeks which went as quickly as they came. The tank received daily water changes for three weeks at which point I reduced them down as the system settled. I had a few in vitro bucephelandra needle melt, but very limited and I feel the prolonged daily water changes helped.
The lighting remains on very low intensity for this slow growing scape, but it has slowly filled in and is developing exactly how I envisaged. Not a great deal of change in the plants, however they do now look mature and natural and the scape holds a huge amount of interest for me and i get lost in it for long periods of time. For such a small scape it has a lot of engagement, attributed to the scape style, plant choice and the livestock choices I eventually made.
I wanted tucano tetra, but found with the hallway location beside the frequently opened front door the temperature was too cool. I opted to add an in-line heater to maintain temperature and allow me the fish I wanted.
A group of 12 tucano were added after a couple of weeks of adding various caridina shrimp, blue bolts, fancy red tigers and cbs.
I then added three parotocinclus haroldi to finish the fish stocking.
The combination is so interesting and the tank is buzzing with activity. The tucano are so beautiful and the shrimp are like little jelly sweets popping around the scape.
Here is a collection of images:
Cheerio,
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