Recent content by enviroman

Beautiful glass and silicone work. The Kessils are really good at dimming quite low, although I’ve only used them with the separately available controller. Great fun playing about with it too.

Looks great! Really interesting to see how much better the whole scape looks after a few weeks. Your patience has really paid off!

It’s not my scape, but it is nice and simple with good plant growth. All it needs is a weekly water change (75%) and daily ferts/liquid carbon.

Working in an aquatics store, otos always arrive really skinny. I always make sure they have been fattened up in the shop for about 3 weeks before buying any.

It is one of three tanks in a row, all v different styles.

Will also add to small bits of rock to the foreground to reduce the stark boundary to the sand.

Here is my initial hardscape for my nano dennerle tank. I’ve spent ages balancing the rocks, gluing them where necessary and filling in all the gaps to stop the soil getting through to the sand. Have temporarily filled it with water to see if any sloping soil rolls down/filters through gaps ...

We have one at work whith some lovely plant growth. Very little algae issues, only using daily ferts and liquid carbon. Will post a pic soon. Pogostemon stellatus Rotala wallichii (goes wonderfully pink/red with the strong light. Only Shrimp and a couple of endler guppies.

Looking great so far! Leggy growth is normally associated with lower light levels, but your 4 T5's should be plenty. Maybe increase photoperiod a little to 8-9 hours?

Thanks for this. Will look into their Aquavitro line and drop Seachem a line.

Wow! the nitrate levels in the local water supply are around 15ppm already, so hopefully will get away with a little less. Will likely be doing 3,000 litre water changes each week, but can do more if needed.

The lighting The lighting is presently 28 x Hydra HD's! Will be doing the PAR testing once it has been temporarily filled with water to check for leaks/floating tree trunks. You can change the Kelvin output on these lights pretty accurately, although most often used on marine tanks. I have...

Thanks for all the comments. Think I will need to consider pros and cons of dry salts vs liquids a little more. I will likely have to climb into the tank to keep some of the plants in check I think. No tools available long enough. I've studied the Amano maintenance YouTube videos for Lisbon and...

Thanks for all the tips and advice. It is a massive project, but sadly not my own tank. I will be maintaining 1-2 days a week once it is finished though. I am just ordering the aquasoil and power sand Special today. My latest thoughts are to go with Seachem products as needed (Flourish, Flourish...