parotet
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Hi all
Two weeks ago I decided to rescape my 65 liters tank (Journal called #2), my first carbon enriched planted tank. It went from this:
To this:
Nothing brilliant in terms of aquascaping, but my aim during this last year has been to be able to achieve healthy growing and to understand some basic issues. As a newbie, the two big pieces of redmoor in tank #2 have been a pain to control flow and thus homogeneous CO2 distribution. In this new project I have decided to get rid of them: just plants, no excuses now for good flow and CO2 distribution... This time I really want to concentrate on plants growth, probably trying more difficult plants and other important aspects for future setups such as achieving bushy plants, learning about composition, colours, etc.
The tanks specs are exactly the same as in Journal #2:
Tank: optiwhite 60x30x35
DIY cabinet, lamp stand and suspension kit
Light: Odyssea T5 2x24w, one tube 6,500 and the other one 4,000K
Filter: Eheim 2215
No heater
CO2 cylinder: 8 kg
3-4 bps using online atomizer
Ferts: dry salts from TNC, liquid EI dosing
Substrate: Amazonia and plain river sand (substrate not removed from previous setup, in some places the sand is now covered by aquasoil).
The change from #2 to this new tank was done in several steps. Some plants were added to the background:
The foreground was kept like in the previous setup: a mixed carpet of Eleocharis acicularis and Staurogyne repens. The big change has been in the middle of the tank where lots of new plants were added:
Most of the plants are still adapting from emersed to submersed forms, but plants are doing really well during this last 10 days... growing really mad:
And most of the tank inhabitants are still exploring their new home
I guess that in a few days I will make the first trimming and the tank will take quite a lot more to look beatuiful. But that's the new challenge, isn't it?
Cheers,
Jordi
Two weeks ago I decided to rescape my 65 liters tank (Journal called #2), my first carbon enriched planted tank. It went from this:
To this:
Nothing brilliant in terms of aquascaping, but my aim during this last year has been to be able to achieve healthy growing and to understand some basic issues. As a newbie, the two big pieces of redmoor in tank #2 have been a pain to control flow and thus homogeneous CO2 distribution. In this new project I have decided to get rid of them: just plants, no excuses now for good flow and CO2 distribution... This time I really want to concentrate on plants growth, probably trying more difficult plants and other important aspects for future setups such as achieving bushy plants, learning about composition, colours, etc.
The tanks specs are exactly the same as in Journal #2:
Tank: optiwhite 60x30x35
DIY cabinet, lamp stand and suspension kit
Light: Odyssea T5 2x24w, one tube 6,500 and the other one 4,000K
Filter: Eheim 2215
No heater
CO2 cylinder: 8 kg
3-4 bps using online atomizer
Ferts: dry salts from TNC, liquid EI dosing
Substrate: Amazonia and plain river sand (substrate not removed from previous setup, in some places the sand is now covered by aquasoil).
The change from #2 to this new tank was done in several steps. Some plants were added to the background:
The foreground was kept like in the previous setup: a mixed carpet of Eleocharis acicularis and Staurogyne repens. The big change has been in the middle of the tank where lots of new plants were added:
Most of the plants are still adapting from emersed to submersed forms, but plants are doing really well during this last 10 days... growing really mad:
And most of the tank inhabitants are still exploring their new home
I guess that in a few days I will make the first trimming and the tank will take quite a lot more to look beatuiful. But that's the new challenge, isn't it?
Cheers,
Jordi
Looking forward to seeing the plants grow in now .The first photo before the rescape . Superb Scape
