Office vase

[UllavL]

Back at work and so glad that my collegues haven't managed to overfeed/kill my fishes while I were away. Thought I share a picture.
No technique, except a spotlight not intended to be aquarium lightning.

8 rasbora birgittae lives there together with some snails. Thinks it's about 13 l. Took a while to get balanced but know I kind of like it. Makes the day a bit less stressful
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[X3NiTH]

Nice!

Is this an IKEA vase? I was staring at something similar at the weekend and thinking they had good potential, the monster floor standing one really caught my eye, but as usual nowhere to put it. Ended up with a couple of the small cubes vases instead. Nice bushy growth!

 

[UllavL]

Not Ikea, but similar. I have also had smaller ones (maybe 8 l) with cherry shrimps. Works great.

 

[allan angus]

nice

 

[Martin in Holland]

this is looking great, always nice to see some green at work. BTW is that 'Monte Carlo' growing in there?

 

[UllavL]

It's Micranthemum umbrosum, is it also called Monte Carlo or is that another Micranthemum?

 

[Vinkenoog1977]

Looks great! And I'm pretty sure this is Monte Carlo, Umbrosum has larger leaves and grows more upward than in a carpet manner.

 

[UllavL]

Hmm, had it in several tanks. It normaly grows upwards to a height of about 15-20 cm. But I think it maybe would grow as a carpet in a high tech tank

 

[Jose]

Mmmm Im in love with it mate. Possibly its cause of the plant.

 

[nayr88]

Really nice
Did you use soils from garden or a particular brand?

 

[UllavL]

I used some kind of shrimp soil, don't really remember which


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[BexM]

That looks great. What a nice thing to have in the office! I would never get any work done for watching the fish.

I had a cylinder vase set up a while ago for shrimp but we needed the spare room so I had to take it down :'(

 

[faizal]

wow,..non co2,...and so lushy,...Its looking great mate.

 

[Tim Harrison]

Like it...very nice

 

[UllavL]

Probably a stupid question but every afternoon my plants starts to pearl. Thought they only did that with CO2 (and of course the bubbles after a waterchange). But in a low tech? Can anyone enlighten me?
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