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they got really big and were out of proportion with the rest of the tank. I would only recommend them for super big tanks. Also they ate a lot of shrimp. I exchanged them along with some 25 sterbas corydoras (all born and raised in my tank) for 40 red phantom tetras and 10 black phantom tetras -...

beautiful tank! Both trimmed and not!

Thank you. They are perfect carpeting plant for a bigger tank as you can trim them right back. Thank you. All filters are on in the video. I have arranged the two filter outlets in a way that they create a gentle but powerful clockwise circular water movement in the tank. The left back side...

Thank you again. There are many, many shrimp - hundreds. Red phantoms occasionally hunt down one or two. I would say on average they perhaps catch two a day. I also have about 5 or 6 Amano shrimp. They are the senior citizens of my tank - all at least 8 years old (I haven't bought any for the...

great tank. agree about the lighting. any updates :)

wonderful!

I like both of them. Great tanks!

Thank you so much Robert. One good thing about a long term and low maintenance project is that it will look presentable even if you sometimes don't have the possibility to do your weekly maintenance. I've been away a few times for up to 3 months at a time and the tank is ok when I return. I...

Thanks again. That light is produced by three R16 warm light led spotlights. They are evening lights and come on after the main lights go out.

Thank you very much. The tank is virtually the same as it was 2 years ago. I only moved some anubias var. nana in front of the Java ferns on the left side of the tank. Also, as the numbers of trigonostigma hengeli have dwindled down over the years I got 40 red phantom tetras and 10 black phantom...

Today I got a surprise - found this little baby red phantom tetra in my tank. The parents are only about 7 months old so I hope I will keep finding more of the same in the future. Really chuffed

What a great journal and tank. Wonderful!

Wow. Two years have pased since my last update. So here's a new pic from today Thanks so much Robert. As you can see I've made some changes. The anubias, as lovely and healthy as they were, were getting too big for the composition. I replaced them with microsorum windelov about 6 months ago...

Re: A Chocolate Puddle - pic update pg 20 +1 :D

Congratulations! Well deserved!

Re: A Chocolate Puddle - pic update pg 20 What an incredibly beautiful tank! Can't believe there is no CO2. Really good journal too. Thanks for posting all the info and photos. Just a thought about your cherries. I have three filters under my tank: two Fluvals and one Eheim. The cherry babies...

If conditions for them are right you can cut them right down. All of them! They grow back nice and strong.

Thank you! The tank is still going strong.

Wow! In my view the second one has better levels the dark areas being more pronounced and better overall clarity. One of my favourite tanks with a great video post on youtube!

Thank you Little-Al and jackrythm! Really appreciate your feedback. regards, fandango

Wonderful tank. The tree trunk makes it really special, brings another dimension to it.

Re: Double Opti White Nano - Cherry/Sakura Breeding Colony Beautiful tanks! Looks like your wonderful shrimp are having a nice life there! regards, fandango

What an amazing tank! I could sit there for hours in front of it. Wonderful fish too- so much movement, life and energy! I do love the fact that there is a tree growing in the middle of it all as well :D Great!

My great inspiration is youtube channel ADA VIEW ADA view - YouTube I've subscribed and check it often. You can follow each tank's developement over a long time. They update each tank weekly!! They've done this for 30 weeks already! My absolute favourite tank must be the one from this post...

I think it is Java moss. I don't know for sure as I didn't buy it. It found its way in my tank probably as a single strand with some other plants years ago. As for it growing above the gravel and tenellus growing so nicely on top of it- the moss found its way there by itself. At the beginning I...

Thank you so much Sentral and Calzone! For me the important things in this long term project perhaps are: • reading and learning from people in forums like this, but keeping an independent, open-minded and critical mind; • keeping everything stable and consistent; • getting right balance between...

Thank you Troi!

Re: Low Maintenance 120cmx60x60 Tank (new video on page 8) Thank you hoggie :)! Just wanted to share these images of anubias' flowers. They have flowered before but never so abundantly as right now (photo taken during the water change with the water level down) regards, fandango

Thanks again faizal! They are indeed windelov ferns. I don't have the problem of the water levels dropping whilst away as my tank is covered with glass. Thanks for asking! regards, fandango

Thanks so much Faizal! 1.I do regular water changes when here- every 3, 4 days. If I'm away- the longest 3 months- I don't, also there is no fertilizing then. On my return I just restart the normal routine. There is usually more bba on anubias and ferns. I cut the affected leaves, clean the...

Thank you sanj! It is in fact tenellus in the foreground. I've never seen denisonii eating any of my plants.

Thanks Andy. Yes, I have four of them. They add some character and do look very nice. The only small drawback is that they do eat cherry shrimp. However, the shrimp multiply so rapidly that it all balances out quite nicely at the end. With tank this size and with lots of plants the shrimp...

Thanks so much Francis! Glad you liked it! regards, fandango

Re: Another day in paradise. Video-The complete work. Incredibly amazing tank! Wonderful photos, videos, information. Fantastic!

Thank you Mark! Thank you Tom! Thank you L_Plates Thank you fishfingers! Thank you mattb180! Thank you Dan-CR4! It really is just the experience and learning from others which eventually translates into a satisfactory result for me. Thank you GillesF! That is exactly the result I'm after -...

I'm sure many here have said this before - I never thought planted freshwater tank could be THIS colourful!! It gets better and better each time I see it! I keep returning to this thread every few days and it never fails to impress. Please keep us mortals here happy with your posts for the...

Stunning pictures of always evolving tank! Very inspiring!!

Re: Double Opti White Nano - Cherry/Sakura Breeding Colony Beautiful tanks- both of them. And they contrast so nicely with each other! Do you cull your shrimps to keep the colours so vivid? Also, do you have to introduce fresh stock to stop interbreeding? I agree with Antipofish - I couldn't...

Re: James' ADA 60p setup Neat, precise and beautiful tank. Really looking forward to the growing-in and the fish. regards, fandango

That full tank shot with the fish added starts to show the full potential of an amazing tank! Please keep us posted- the originality of your tank makes it a very exiting tank for all of us to follow! Have you had any major algae problems and if yes how do you tackle them. Do you dose excell...

I really enjoyed reading trough this thread, looking at the pictures and the video. Beautiful tank and fish. regards, fandango

Wow! An explosion of textures and colour shades. Very beautiful!

Truly beautiful

Re: 120 x 55 x 55 Lighting and photographs. Wonderful clip and tank!

Re: 120 x 55 x 55 Spot the CRS Wonderful! Hope they do well there. I tried some CRSs some time ago but they disappeared. Now I think it was due to a very hot summer day and temperature rising above +30. I may be mistaken but I think they are very sensitive to hot temperature spikes. Of course...

Re: 120 x 55 x 55 Iwawoody. Wonderful journal and a very impressive tank. So nice of you to share it all so thoroughly!

Re: 120 x 55 x 55 Iwawoody. Looking fantastic

Beautiful tank. I'm really looking forward to all the update pictures with it getting more and more stunning. +1 against the spray bars across the back of the tanks. I think they are ugly and not necessary.

Picture taken in July. Not in focus and slightly overgrown but this I think is a good representative of my tank's optimum moment between the big trims and it being too overgrown. It has been evolving for about 5 years now with some big adjustments but mostly careful and slow tweaking aided by...

Stunning looking tank. Do you do full EI regime in it? regards, fandango

Re: Tom's Bucket O' Mud - Video! (page 15) Loved the movie. I was half expecting Charlie Chaplin to make an entrance at some point :D . But seriously, very nice clip. Thanks for posting it. regards, fandango

Re: 120 x 55 x 55 possibly, for the last time. what a beauty. thanks for posting all this and the video at the end show just how clean and perfect it is. best of luck with the move. regards, fandango

They are very attractive fish. Had mine for about 3 years now. They will eat the cherry shrimps though. If you have enough place and lot's of plants the cherries will be able to escape. regards, fandango

Fantastic. What a great tank. Great to see the various stages too. What kind of fertilizing regime do you do? reagards, fandango

Re: 90x45x45 - "Seiryu peak" - planted & video Looks really realistic- like a mountain range. Well done. regards, fandango

I'm not sure how I missed this one. It must be one of my favourite tanks!! If you have some more pictures of the various development stages, it would be greatly appreciated, I'm sure, by many people here if you posted some of them in the Journals section. Must be really fantastic to have this...

This is such a nice and informative journal. How is the tank doing now? regards, fandango

Very lush and healthy growth. I like the minimalistic look of the tank. regards, fandango

Re: Low Maintenance 120cmx60x60 Tank (new video on page 8) Thank you George for your kind words. I guess I follow the rule, which I learned when I was keeping discus- look after the quality of the water and the fish will look after themselves. Seeing them breed and the offspring doing so well is...

Re: Low Maintenance 120cmx60x60 Tank (new video on page 8) thank you tam, It is java moss. I didn't plan for it to end up where it is now; it kind of happened by itself- the moss first somehow found its way into my tank, and then ended up establishing itself just above the gravel. At first I...

Re: Low Maintenance 120cmx60x60 Tank (new video on page 8) Thank you John. Thank you sanj, hope you succeed with your loaches soon. Thank you Joecoral. Thanks Gill. In fact in the video you see evening lighting set-up - 3 halogen 20W MR16 spotlights. They serve a decorative purpose only...

Re: Tom's Bucket O' Mud - Fish pics page 8 I really like this concept. It must be like having a fish tank and an indoor pond all in one.

Re: Low Maintenance 120cmx60x60 Tank Hi faizal, sorry for the late reply. I have a simple inert aquarium gravel. The crypts like it, the tenellus has in fact mostly having their roots suspended in the moss layer, which is about 3cm thick and grows between gravel and tenellus. I'm having cory...

Re: [IWAGUMI] Project Scree This is one of my favourite tanks here. The stone arrangement looks very ecstatically beautiful and natural, the minimal choice of plants and fish compliments it and the light gravel around it all helps to focus the eye. regards, Paul

Re: Low Maintenance 120cmx60x60 Tank Thank you Gill, TDI-line and LondonDragon :D

Re: Low Maintenance 120cmx60x60 Tank Thank you Luketendo. Thank you. I have been away for even for up to 3 months and, apart from the fact that fish have relatively little space to swim in, the tank's health always stays good. It is a very mature set-up and a very stable environment. I haven't...

Re: Low Maintenance 120cmx60x60 Tank (New pictures on page 7 Hi everybody, Here comes my earlier promise to share with you some pictures of the tank after I came back from my trip. I was away for about a month and a half. This is more or less a full circle in my tank's plant maintenance...

Re: Low Maintenance 120cmx60x60 Tank Thank you Ray, Sam, thank you sanj, I miss my rams too. They do not have a long lifespan- that's the only drawback when keeping them. I trim the grass and moss every now and then. I once uprooted the whole thing. That created a huge mess and biological...

In my opinion they look just fine. There is some new healthy growth and some tennelus melting after the planting is normal. And red tennelus leaves are completely normal too. regards, fandango

Re: Saintly's 'savannah dreaming' @ 6 weeks Beautiful tank, pictures and video.

Beautiful tank! Regarding your question about CO2 and the filter, turning off the filter at night is not a good idea as the bacteria in the filter need oxygen and will suffocate and die. Have you considered a CO2 reactor? You can make a really sufficient DIY one yourself...

Really nice tank. fandango

Very nice and natural looking tank. I really like it. Do you get any algae on anubias and if you do, how do you deal with it? regards, fandango

Re: Galaxy paradise (宇宙天堂) Excellent journal. Thanks for sharing it. The tank looks amazing. regards, fandango

Re: Low Maintenance 120cmx60x60 Tank Every two months or so I trim tenellus and crypts (notice the difference in size of the ones on the left. They are the same species; only the front ones get a regular number 1 hair cut 8) ). You can cut crypts right down- all leaves off- and they will grow...

Looking really good. How is it doing now? Regards, fandango

Re: Low Maintenance 120cmx60x60 Tank Thanks LondonDragon, Yes, I can see your point, it's because of the size of the leaves of Java Fern and Anubias and the Puntius Denisonii. The tank obviously would look different if there were more delicate plants and only small fish. The leaves are growing...

Re: Low Maintenance 120cmx60x60 Tank This is my first post in a while :D . In the meantime I have been reading up, learning from people here. Here is an update As you can see the principal look of the tank hasn't changed. Changes since the last post are: Full EI fertilizing, dosing every...

Thank you ceg4048

I've just used Nutri-Calc programme to assess the amount of dry N, P, and K to add daily to my 360l tank. After filling in all the stats the doses came out as follows: 2.61g KNO3 1.20 g K2SO4 0.74g KH2PO4 Is this about right? Best, fandango

Re: Low Maintenance 120cmx60x60 Tank Thank you deMastro. I actually do think it is mikrogeophagus ramirezi but I may be wrong- I'm no specialist :) Thank you joyous214! Thank you zed. The substrate is the most basic gravel, which I bought from LFS 9 years ago. When I used to keep discus (had...

Re: Low Maintenance 120cmx60x60 Tank Thank you sari, thank you jay. Regards, fandango

Re: Low Maintenance 120cmx60x60 Tank Perhaps I was editing the post at the time you looked at it

Re: Low Maintenance 120cmx60x60 Tank Hi keymaker, That's amazing. I was just thinking today incidentally- what about the eyesight of the shrimp or as in your case- the fish babies who end up living in a total darkness for a couple of months. Surely it must affect it in some way. Here is an...

Re: Low Maintenance 120cmx60x60 Tank Hi Ray, Yes- my face must have looked something like this :roll: :roll: :roll: . They really do very well in there. For the tanks with fish hunting the baby shrimps it's a good way of protecting them until they have grown to a safe size. The darkness...

Re: Low Maintenance 120cmx60x60 Tank Thank you sari, What I like about this tank it is its consistency. As I've stated here before- I can either trim and shape every week or leave it for up to three months untouched and the basic look and health of the set-up stays more less the same...

Re: Low Maintenance 120cmx60x60 Tank Thank you Ray, I really like Rasbora Hengeli. They do school well at all times even if they are not threatened by larger fish. There are two similar fish Trigonostigma hengeli and Trigonostigma espei. With age Trignostigma espei acquire a really deep...

Re: Low Maintenance 120cmx60x60 Tank Thanks Joecoral, Well, I don't want to get in trouble of being accused 'sexist' here :D . Let's just say- she prefers the real thing to the cheep stuff :wink: . You could say that she's got more class! Best, fandango

Re: Low Maintenance 120cmx60x60 Tank This is my male ram. He is almost read (I haven't photoshoped him). He is at least twice as big as the female for one simple reason (well- two reasons, first being- he is a male :)) - he eats Tetra Prima and the female doesn't. Nothing is going to convince...

Re: Low Maintenance 120cmx60x60 Tank Thank you Spider Pig, Yes, it does create a feeling of depth. Also the two batches of crypts at the front on both sides of the tank enhance this effect too. Best, fandango

Re: Low Maintenance 120cmx60x60 Tank Thank you jay, I seem to remember they were Czeck-bred when I bought them in my LFS about a year ago- the Shepperton MA. Best, fandango

Re: Low Maintenance 120cmx60x60 Tank Thanks London Dragon, Yes they certainly do have a lot of personality for such a small fish but, unfortunately, they do have only a couple of years life span.. Best, fandango

Re: Low Maintenance 120cmx60x60 Tank Thank you Spider Pig, The combination of cardinals and harlequins is certainly unusual. To be honest I am in a process of changing from cardinals to harlequins (the cardinals are all very old and I'm not getting any new ones...). It is interesting to note...

Re: Low Maintenance 120cmx60x60 Tank Thank you beeky, Yes, you're right- they are fragile. I guess it is because that's one of the ways they propagate - when the rhizome brakes you have two plants instead of the one :) Best, fandango

Re: Low Maintenance 120cmx60x60 Tank :D

Re: My First Planted Tank - Juwel Rio 125 Very nice thank! What is the red crypt called in the right corner of the pictures? Best, fandango

Re: Low Maintenance 120cmx60x60 Tank Here is my female ram hunting daphnia (cherry babies are safe for few hours...)

Re: Low Maintenance 120cmx60x60 Tank Thanks Sam, I didn't do well at all with barteri at the beginning. In fact I didn't do well with anubias for years. I had one rhizome and I kept it in my tank for a long time before it decided to give it a go. There are a few points I could point out...

Re: Low Maintenance 120cmx60x60 Tank Thank you John, Yes, that would be my next dream tank- open top 150cmx60x60 with Arcadia luminaire. That would solve the anubia problem. Best, fandango

Re: Low Maintenance 120cmx60x60 Tank Cherries grazing in the field :)