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Sensations of Red - close to finish images

tim said:
As all said above Iain, spot on lovely nature aquarium, come a long way since barb island :) got to be one of my favourite scapers on the forum at the moment, just wish you'd bloody update your threads more ;)
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cheers tim, nice to know others enjoy the tanks also. I keep telling my housemates how lucky they are :lol:
Im trying to update more often dude, silly season is on route for me though so no promises but will be getting some video soon...
 
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Honest though mate, you seem to have nailed it.

Tbh Brandis edge is ok, but my heater has packed up now, and I have hiding fish, not sure whether it's due to the heat change...more money for a new heater. It's soooo slow as well.
 
Looks great Iain, love the way the elatine is growing on the rocks. Don't worry about the reds, they're very seasonal :)
Cheerio
Ady
 
Ian Holdich said:
Honest though mate, you seem to have nailed it.

Tbh Brandis edge is ok, but my heater has packed up now, and I have hiding fish, not sure whether it's due to the heat change...more money for a new heater. It's soooo slow as well.
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The expense never ends... maybe as the water is cooler its holding onto more co2 also and making the fish hide??
Strange its slow as the set up is the same is it not.. saying the last few have been supercharged!!

Ady34 said:
Looks great Iain, love the way the elatine is growing on the rocks. Don't worry about the reds, they're very seasonal :)
Cheerio
Ady
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Thanks ady, the elatine is really awesome, unless you need the smaller leaves i dont know why people would bother with HC. Even when dense it showed no sign of lifting in mine and i think dans shallow tank qualified as dense!
Time for the season to change! will see what happens with higher lighting but do need to be a little careful as still have OEBT's in it, no breeding but seem happy. Looking forward to moving them to elsewhere though as they deserve better.

pmgsr said:
Iain, great scape. Those Ludwigias are beautiful.
Can i ask you what king of fertilisation are you using? EI?
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The Ludwigia has been really easy, not high demanding at all.
Using the Vimi ferts from freshwatershrimp same as the 120cm, I like it but maybe a little lean on micros as the greens improve when i dose additional seachem Fe.
 
Think I might go for elatine instead of HC as seems great, does it stay low and carpet quickly ? and easier than HC
 
Absolutely stunning cannot wait to get hold of some of this, keep the amazing pics coming mate like plant porn lol

Dean


Thanks Dean
 
Looking great! With as many red/pink/purple plants as are available these days I'm waiting for someone to start using green/yellow species as the accent. This tank's one of the closest to that that I've seen. Nicely done!

Is that a surface skimming attachment on that Eheim powerhead? I haven't seen anything like that here in the US.
 
Aquadream said:
Nice, nice plants. I love it.:)
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thanks aqua, 4 weeks and want a final image with luck.... got itchy scaping fingers.
Its funny, i was going to pull this down about 6 weeks ago because i couldnt be bothered to fix the issues, glad i didnt now.
 
Gave this one a little love today, hoping it will be the last trim before a final pic and new scape that i want to get started.

Ignore the purple bamboo, its just in here to transition to immersed life before going in the 120.

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For all the haters out there you will be happy to know the wood has been removed. While i like the idea of iwagumi with twigs it never worked too well in this tank so felt a little forced. It does look way more balanced and 'comfortable' to look at now.
The tank is still going mad and growing like crazy, the MonteCarlo/elantine whatever is savage and comes back in what seems like the day after a trim. I started adding additional iron twice a week to see if there was any change in the reds but 5 weeks on very little difference.
What i thought would be a final trim wasnt as i dont have the time now to redo it. Will trim again on wednesday and get some images for what will hopefully be the final time....
What is a little suprising is that with no WC for 3 weeks plus, heavy ferting and general neglect the blue tigers are just fine. They arent breeding but seem happy enough... TDS was 275 a few days ago!! They never should have been in this tank and will be rehomed during the rescape whenever that happens.
Thats all for now and will get some pics up mid week as we all hape updates with no pictures :oops:
 
Cheers deano, just got a new iphone so trying out tapatalk and image uploading malarkey...
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