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Dan and Andy's crypt

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Pulled a large clump of Christmas moss out today that's divided into to 2 lots and on its way to its new owners also trimmed a lot of hydro out trimmed all the longer stems back a bit of pruning and 15 litre water change a selection of stems and a good portion of hydro on its way to Ryan waters a little cloudy from the disturbance but should soon clear I can sit back and enjoy watching my crypts wafting in the flow now won't be long before I'm pulling another bucketful of plants out of here.
I think the fissidans moss will be getting a trim shortly and tied onto a few other limbs of the wood now I can see it again
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Not done much with this tank for a while growth is good and fast no change on the lighting or co2 still dosing ferts and liquid carbon water changes are down to a couple of buckets a month and topping up every two or three days only problem I have is snails there's lots I spend a hour or so a week just plucking them out but i can never eradicate them all the two assassins snails died in this tank why I don't know.
Anyway today's I've pulled a lot of stems out changed a couple of buckets of water and taken some FTS before and after excuse the pictures I'm still getting my head round my new camera.
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And after I've been in with the shears

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I'm thinking Staurogyne in the front exposing that branch and spreading out the fissedens along it the plant on the left is very slow growing but I'll keep a eye on it I've pulled most of that ammania it was getting stringy and the red stems have all but gone to again very stringy would have been nice if I could have kept it bushed up and not as tall
 
A couple more months have nearly passed a few little changes have been made thinned out a few stems removed the hydro and the two large plants from each corner they never recovered from the major trim back in September the fissedens is growing like crazy and a huge clump came adrift and reattached part of itself to the filter intake I like it there so left it the rest is clinging onto the tank brace it seems happy but I'm having to keep the water a little higher than I like to support it anybody wanting some let me know and I'll post it out a donation to ukaps is all I ask.
As for the crypts very a little scary they dominate this tank now and are expanding at a rapid rate I keep spotting new lances popping up all over the place I'm nearly sure I could lift the substrate out in one piece if I was to pull the original plant up !
Anyway a few update pics

Dan

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I always like tanks like this rather then generic aquascapes filled with one plant and a rock , much more exciting and also the plants look very healthy :)
 
Will post some pictures and a update on this tank at the weekend it's still going strong however it's just a mass of moss and crypts and in need of some serious thinning out there will be lots of moss and crypts up for grabs shortly
 
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