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Davidii World

Molroth

Seedling
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Location
Gyál, Hungary
Hey there fellow aquascapers and hello from Hungary! :)
My name is Laci and I live in Gyál, near to Budapest with my SO and our son.
My english skills are really bad, but i want to polish it, so i decided to write a journal on this forum. So feel free to correct me if i write stupid things! :)

Aaaand to get to the point here is my new nano tank! It will be a shrimp only aquarium with neocaridina davidii black sakura and maybe some algae eater snails. Here are the specs:
Aquaruim: 42x29x20 (cm) ~ 24 Litres (I saved it from the garbage at a house clearance, it was a hamster cage maybe :D)
Lighting: IKEA desk lamp with 11W 6500K PC bulb
Filtration: 280 L/h internal filter with sponge and spray bar
Substrate: reused Aquatic Nature Shrimp Soil
Decoration: river sand from Fehérvárcsurgó, (green) granite rocks, red moor
Fertilization: Dr. Garden Micro combi
Co2: Liqui carbo (liquid stuff like easy carbo but it contains K too)
Vater: tap water (~20 Gh :eek:) with seachem prime

Flora: microsorum pteropus trident, anubias nana petite, fissidens fontanus, hemianthus micranthemoides

Fauna: nothing yet, but i want black sakura shrimp and some algae eater snails

The empty glass
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I lifted (is that term correct?) the substrate with a granite rock and some lava rock grit.
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The early version of the hardscape
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The almost final base with the sand.
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And the final hardscape. I had to take out some roots because they didn't sink yet.
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The microsorum and the anubias is in!
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Fully planted and ready to fill it with water.
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And with water! A bit opalescent because of the dust and the bacteria, it needs a few days and water changes. :)
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I hope it will grow nice ang algae free and full with shrimps!
Thanks for reading! :thumbup:
 
hali, jó lett,
nem is találkoztam ezzel az akival akvakertészen, de biztos csak vak voltam :)
 
What great looking scape! East Europeans certainly have an eye for this hobby. What's the deal with that??

Perfect tank dimensions too. I have a mini m sized tank, and I have to lower the water level to get nice 'wide-angle' proportions.
 
I hope your SO doesn't mind you using her cross-stitch material for aquascaping. And what's the wine bottle for? Is it frozen to cool the tank down?
 
What great looking scape! East Europeans certainly have an eye for this hobby. What's the deal with that??

Perfect tank dimensions too. I have a mini m sized tank, and I have to lower the water level to get nice 'wide-angle' proportions.

Thank you Dantrasy! I really like the dimensions of this tank too, though I need to find a good angle with the camera for a nice deep perspective.
Oh and I am a Central European! :D (Just kidding! :D)
We have Green Aqua here in Hungary, they are organising great workshops and contests to learn aquascaping. In the past years I learnt a lot from them (Viktor Lantos and Balázs Farkas) and we have the last year's AGA winner too (Gábor Veréb) he is a wery nice person too with a great knowledge.

Wine bottle
Hmmm Tokaji Aszu ?:D
Nope. I dont like aszú. :p It is from Eger wine region and it was rosé, one of my favourite. I like to drink it as a sport fröcss (spritzer). ;)
 
The tank is two weeks "old". I have the normal diatoms attack but the plants are looks healthy so I didn't panic... yet. :D I hope that the tank is maturing and the diatoms will pass, but maybe I have to upgrade the lighting. Time will answer this question. I planted a little bush of HM behind the tree and it comes with a few snails with it so at this time they are the fauna of the aquarium. :D

Here are some blurry shots from yesterday:

from down:
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from center:
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from top:
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a little farther away:
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A snail:
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details:
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Just a quick update:

I have some trouble:

- diatoms+hair algae (low light plus the super hot hungarian summer)
- nematode and hydra attack
So i have some work to do. :D

Aaand a few shots after today's maintenance:
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