Recent content by GHudston

I had a similar thing happen to me. I wanted to rescape my tank AFTER I had planted the HC, so I painstakingly removed the HC and put it onto a piece of clingfilm while I rescaped. Unfortuantely I took too long in deciding what to do with my scape that the whole lot had dried up and shrivelled...

I was thinking the same, the stems are only that colour so that they stand out more easily from the other plants in the illustration. I will probably have a variety of plants, but any lighter plants will probably end up on the left hand side of the tank with the darker greens behind the wood...

Here is the finished mock up. I got a bit carried away with the background, which is composed of unidentified stem and leafy plants. I have some ideas of what plants that I will put in the background, but it was just too time consuming to represent them in this illustration. The final tank...

I've done a sort of half finished mock up of what I want to do with my scape regarding plants. There's been some slight alterations already, primarily that I'm not going to bother with the dwarf hair grass as I've discovered that it's a bit taller than I had thought it was, so just ignore...

Yeah, that's how I wanted it too at first. Unfortunately the wood doesn't fit in the tank if I turn it the other way up; I may still play around with it before I fill the tank up, just to keep myself amused untilt he HC carpet grows in!

I had a bit of a realisation the other day. I was really happy with my scape, but I had left almost NO room behind the hardscape for any plants. I had a big pile of rocks taking up nearly the entire tank apart from the foreground which was to be a field of HC. So today, I rescaped it. It...

Nope, I would have soaked it but I the only thing that I have that is large enough to soak it in is the tank! I'm hoping to weight it down or tie it to the rocks when I flood the tank to keep it down and hopefully that should do the trick until it sinks on it's own.

There will be plenty of other plants once the tank is filled. I'm not sure what plants, mind you, but I will definately have more than just HC. I'm only growing the HC emmersed until I get my pressurised CO2 in a month or so.

Yes, the tank is covered. It's probably not as air tight as I'd like it to be but it seems to be holding moisture extremely well, with condensation on the glass all of the time. I'm misting the tank at least daily, but I give it a quick spray if it's starting to look anything but nice and moist...

I have a pair of T5HO 39W bulbs with reflectors. I bought this tank with the intention of having moderately decent lights to start out with but which could be easily upgraded later if I felt that I needed it. I'm going to get a pressurised system of some description, though I couldn't tell you...

Well, not complete beginner. Not to fishkeeping at least! Hello! My name is Gary Hudston and I am currently a poor University Student who has decided, astonishingly, that a planted aquarium is the best use for all his spare pennies! I have been keeping fish for most of my life, and when I...