Vanish
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- 15 Feb 2013
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Hi everyone.
Here I go, with a fresh adventure. This on has been s while in the making. I was inspired by Big tom's bullet o mud journal, and also the excellent tutorial by Tim Harrison, on low tech setups. I have in the past has high tech setups, these have been successful but I seemed to have lost a bit of interest, so a change of direction was on the agenda. My old 1200x600x450 tank was put on Gumtree, free to a good home. I'd this tank for eight years, so i didn't mind letting it go FOC. The cabinet went to as they were a pair.
The big empty gap in the front room was a strange thing, and I felt like I'd lost a member of family. I lasted nearly 24 hours before I had ordered my new tank - an evolution aqua AS900. The LFS said this would be about a week to ten days in delivery, so the next job was onto building the cabinet. I wanted a solid wood cabinet, and my woodworking skills arn't to bad. I had a load of timber in my workshop, so i set to work.
I didn't get many shots of the build, but here's one part way through.
As you can see it's pretty solid!
Well the seven to ten days tank delivery took a month, partly due to the first delivery getting smashed in transit. After the long wait I collected the new tank today. And here it is. I'm behind the camera doing a little dance of excitement.
I had already prepared the soil, made some sand bags(using filter media bags) to create a gradient.
Soil added.
The membrane went in next to keep the sand and soil separate.
Then on top went the sand. I did find some crypt roots with growing shoots, that had been hiding in the middle of a damp bag of sand for a month. These plants are amazing!
That's about as far as I have got today, except for spending some time in the garden with a lump hammer, chisel and a large rock, trying to create some suitable sized pieces to go into the new scape. Tomorrow I'll be racing of to the LFS in search of plants. I've also got to finish off the hard-scape, which is mostly azalea root and my beat up rock.
More updates to follow.
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Here I go, with a fresh adventure. This on has been s while in the making. I was inspired by Big tom's bullet o mud journal, and also the excellent tutorial by Tim Harrison, on low tech setups. I have in the past has high tech setups, these have been successful but I seemed to have lost a bit of interest, so a change of direction was on the agenda. My old 1200x600x450 tank was put on Gumtree, free to a good home. I'd this tank for eight years, so i didn't mind letting it go FOC. The cabinet went to as they were a pair.
The big empty gap in the front room was a strange thing, and I felt like I'd lost a member of family. I lasted nearly 24 hours before I had ordered my new tank - an evolution aqua AS900. The LFS said this would be about a week to ten days in delivery, so the next job was onto building the cabinet. I wanted a solid wood cabinet, and my woodworking skills arn't to bad. I had a load of timber in my workshop, so i set to work.
I didn't get many shots of the build, but here's one part way through.
As you can see it's pretty solid!
Well the seven to ten days tank delivery took a month, partly due to the first delivery getting smashed in transit. After the long wait I collected the new tank today. And here it is. I'm behind the camera doing a little dance of excitement.
I had already prepared the soil, made some sand bags(using filter media bags) to create a gradient.
Soil added.
The membrane went in next to keep the sand and soil separate.
Then on top went the sand. I did find some crypt roots with growing shoots, that had been hiding in the middle of a damp bag of sand for a month. These plants are amazing!
That's about as far as I have got today, except for spending some time in the garden with a lump hammer, chisel and a large rock, trying to create some suitable sized pieces to go into the new scape. Tomorrow I'll be racing of to the LFS in search of plants. I've also got to finish off the hard-scape, which is mostly azalea root and my beat up rock.
More updates to follow.
Sent from my Moto G (4) using Tapatalk