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Thanks for the input everyone! I was planning on filling that vertical space more but the stone I planned on having more upright wouldn't safely stay up, so I laid it on it's side - the main stone on the left. I used substrate dams to get the sloping over 12" in the back to try and fill the...

Oh well, their lack of color actually helps the scape in retrospect because it keeps it minimalist and doesn't detract from the Iwagumi. I'm quite pleased with these fish, they're extremely vital.

Thank you! People don't seem to appreciate Iwagumi like they used to, it seems it has fallen out of style.

Thanks! Arizona Aquatic Gardens, and I’m in NY! 60 super healthy fish shipped cross country during the summer. A+ vendor.

Here it is a bit brighter, close up shots coming tomorrow.

The scape is done! Still some light and color balancing to do on this photo but we're almost there. I'll have a final photo within a few days, along with some close up shots!

Here ya go guys! Full sized JPEG in all its glory. Still some light and color balancing to do but almost there.

I wish I had a lens besides the stock but I’m just not a photographer. Yeah the green jelly neo’s were $4 a piece and came very healthy (only bought 20 expecting them to colonize like RCS), I’m just blasting way to much CO2 for them to thrive. The CO2 is doing 100x the algae control of the dozen...

One great thing about these green neons, is as long as the light is on and the plants are photosynthesizing, I cannot put too much CO2 into the tank (10+bps). Drop checker so yellow it’s almost white, no problem. My regulator was leaking one night at one bubble per second and I woke to them at...

They’re still pretty and school quite tightly, and at $2.88 a fish, shipped, with 100% survival rate I really can’t complain.

Thanks, but 19 was a little early to get autoimmune arthritis, especially as a collegiate athlete. 26 now. I do indeed have the curved ADA scissors, been considering the waves. I do make sure to keep the roots healthy via compression and keeping it thin enough for the MH to pierce to the roots.

They're pink, with a faint blue stripe. No red at all, just fleshy pink and a bit of blue. They are hyper vital and eat ravenously every two hours if I feed them that often They school when someone is in the room but wander when there's nothing threatening (very skittish). We'll see how the...

We did the “final photoshoot” with livestock, we just have to edit the shots in post due to exposure and color balance etc. My fiancé does this for a living and we will be doing it tonight, updates are coming! As of right now it’s very overgrown, as my arthritis has limited my ability to...

We did the “final photoshoot” with livestock, we just have to edit the shots in post due to exposure and color balance etc. My fiancé does this for a living and we will be doing it tonight, updates are coming! As of right now it’s very overgrown, as my arthritis has limited my ability to...

already had to numerous times, and it's way worse now (photos are from a week or two ago) It's still eating them up despite my best efforts to trim. I honestly have to give the whole tank a light trim every other day to keep light getting down to the roots. The stones were there first and...

60 green neons and 20 green jade shrimp all healthy and well, 100% survival! Final photo shoot coming up within the week.

Pearl Valley (still trimming bits every day): 60 green neons and 20 green jade shrimp arrived a few weeks ago, 0 losses! Drip acclimation is the best. Both are loving the soft water, GH at 4, cant get my KH below 3... darn seiryu stones are forcing me to do a 50% WC every other day to...

Everything arrived healthy, final shoot coming within the week, fastest scape I've ever made.

I keep my water very soft. There will be an extensive, many hour drip acclimation. I shoot for 4dGH and 1dKH but it’s tough with this much seiryu stone constantly dissolving. Lots of water changes.

hahaha! thanks man I'm trimming almost a golfball worth out each day, can't keep up with nitrates and phosphates either despite 40L+ of brand new aquasoil... blown away by these tissue cultures. They have changed the game. 60 green neons ordered and 20 green Neocaridina, on their way. Here's...

I found a place with green neons on clearance for 2.88 a piece, best deal I’m gonna get!

Tank got its first haircut today at day 21. Came out well, going to need to hit it aggressively again soon to keep it flat. It was planted so densely it was in it's own way and could not spread along the ground. So while it may be puffy the roots are still extremely vital. Many repetitive...

Here are pictures from day 20, not even 3 weeks in. I'm speechless from the growth. And no it's 100% not Monte Carlo, unless I no longer know what my favorite plant looks like and 2 seperate plant culture dealers both messed up and sent me monte? No way. It's super tiny, and 100% HC, but it's...

Filling in insanely fast... not even at the 2 week mark, ammonia on decline, nitrites through the roof.

Finally got some shots with a proper white balance, my iPhone XS Max washes the photos out in blue quite badly. I messed up the back left corner when my water change vacuum burped water because I decided I wanted to do a water change drunk, not hung over in the morning ha! (celebrating...

Thanks everyone, that’s what I was going for with the river ending before the back; I wanted a nice river through the middle but I didn’t want to break the HC down the middle.

Actually I just meant regular green neon tetras (neons without the red and smaller), but those are a cool option. I want something small that schools well and doesn’t contrast off green so much. I must admit I don’t know my fish.

Amano's were always my go to clean up crew with some otto's but I fear the same thing with the scale of this scape. Using small green neons as my fish. Not sure what to do about the algae crew... are there any new shrimp that clean like Amano's but are smaller? And I learned my lesson about...

**COLOR CORRECTED PHOTOS IN UPDATES** Hello! It's been a while (~10 years) since I've done one of these, upgraded from a 75P (all my previous journals using that tank are are on the plantedtank.net which is where I used to post) and a hand made cabinet, to a 90P and an ADA cabinet, because I'm...