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60P Nature Scape

Just over a week since I set the tank up, buce has melted a lot, the stems at the back are starting to show!

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IMG_9150 by Colm Doyle, on Flickr
 
Last weekend I removed all the JF as a lot of it was old growth and looking really sad, pulled the wood out and trimmed all the stems and replanted some tops, tied the moss on with thread and generally just re-scape the whole tank using less Java Fern.

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IMG_9166 by Colm Doyle, on Flickr
 
Removed some java fern as it had bba growing on it, probably came over from another tank, have a low tech out door tank full of Java Fern, so I will try move some back into this tank next weekend.

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IMG_9191 by Colm Doyle, on Flickr
 
Diatoms just wont go away, still early days I guess, here is an updated photo with a black background (just black paper stuck to the glass with sticky tape, not permanent, tho I like the look.

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IMG_9218 by Colm Doyle, on Flickr
 
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Hi,

I like the look of your tank. Do you know how many kilograms of mini landscape you used?

I would not worry about the diatoms. Had them in my tank for about 10 weeks till they disapeared. And this took about one or two weeks to be finished ;)
 
Dominik_K said:
Hi,

I like the look of your tank. Do you know how many kilograms of mini landscape you used?

I would not worry about the diatoms. Had them in my tank for about 10 weeks till they disapeared. And this took about one or two weeks to be finished ;)
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Not to sure how many kilos of stone, I would guess about 5 - 7kg total, this is only a guess, on the weekend I purchased one giant 9kg stone, I would guess that the 9kg stone is bigger than all these stones combined.

Yah I am not to worried about the diatoms, this would be the 4th or 5th scape I have done each had some form of diatoms but this tanks seems to be copping it the worst. Still they are easy to remove manually if needed so I am not worried. I added 3 Oto Catfish on the weekend, may add another 3 next weekend if they seem happy.
 
Put 3 oto's and 1 SAE in the tank on the weekend, they seem happy enough, havent seen the SAE eat any BBA yet (few little tuffs here and there) Will probably add another 3 oto's on the weekend. Also moved across some shrimp from my bookshelf tank and a few leopard ramshorn snails from my cube, some mini snails also came across with the shrimp... bastards! May try keep some kind of snail eating fish, perhaps a Dwarf chain loach

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IMG_9360 by Colm Doyle, on Flickr

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IMG_9331 by Colm Doyle, on Flickr

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IMG_9335 by Colm Doyle, on Flickr
 
Managed to snap a better photo of the smallest oto of the 3 I added recently, any know what those small black circular growths are on the wood, I am thinking the start of BBA, getting a bit on the wood, have reduced the light.

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IMG_9366 by Colm Doyle, on Flickr
 
Some detail photos, tank is stating to stabilised by the looks of it, diatoms are pretty much gone and BBA is reducing, everything is starting to look nice and green, I have reduced the lighting to level 4/7.

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IMG_9486 by Colm Doyle, on Flickr

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IMG_9484 by Colm Doyle, on Flickr

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IMG_9489 by Colm Doyle, on Flickr

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IMG_9495 by Colm Doyle, on Flickr

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IMG_9494 by Colm Doyle, on Flickr

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IMG_9487 by Colm Doyle, on Flickr

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IMG_9452 by Colm Doyle, on Flickr

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IMG_9457 by Colm Doyle, on Flickr

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IMG_9477 by Colm Doyle, on Flickr

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IMG_9482 by Colm Doyle, on Flickr
 
Dantrasy was kind enough to offer me 10 or so Ember Tetra's so that made my decision easy on what school to keep in the tank, they have been in for a few hours and seem happy enough, here is a updated photo. Didnt have any time to do any tank maintance this weekend so the sand is a bit dirty, soil spilling everywhere, but algae is at an all time low, happy with that!

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IMG_9524 by Colm Doyle, on Flickr
 
doylecolmdoyle said:
Dantrasy was kind enough to offer me 10 or so Ember Tetra's so that made my decision easy
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He seems a decent sort :clap:
but hope you kicked his a** over his lack of journaling ..... some have gotten a wee bit addicted to his stone mastery
:wideyed: :wideyed: :wideyed:
:D


As always your tank & photos are awesome :) :) :)
 
alto said:
He seems a decent sort :clap:
but hope you kicked his a** over his lack of journaling ..... some have gotten a wee bit addicted to his stone mastery
:wideyed: :wideyed: :wideyed:
:D
As always your tank & photos are awesome :) :) :)
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Thanks! He is a good bloke! Has previously gifted me some plants and now fish, bonus is I get to see his great tanks in the flesh!
 
Captured a video tonight, first time trying to film anything with a DSLR, can see this being a fun hobby. Have to say the embers are great fish, unlike other micro fish I have these guys are scared of nothing, as you can tell from the video always buzzing around the front of the tank, they are literally in very frame :p

 
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