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Hi Pedro, Another great looking tank. The detail in it is amazing. Congratulations! I was wondering about the silicon you use. I was thinking to do something similar for an upcoming scape. Do you find it easy to remove when you break down the scape? CD

And I've just seen that Takeshi Amano has died. What a shock and a real shame. Aquascaping genius aside he seemed like a pretty nice and interesting guy. His personal tank was the first scape I can recall seeing and what inspired me to do this hobby. It's still my favourite now. Goodbye Mr...

Cheers chap! Thanks Alexander! Yeah they look pretty spot on. Well done. I'm going to go with the Arcuata on my description just because aquatic plant central says it is sold more widely. CD

A couple of weeks have past since my last update and there's been a couple of significant changes. Here's a shot of the tank at week 7 (just before a hair cut for the Monte Carlo): I experimented with my camera set to vibrant which is why the colours are popping. You can see I added in a few...

TOYS!!!! :D Looking forward to seeing this in action. Tried building my own a while ago using a small water pump but never got near it working.

Ahhhhhh okay. Thanks for the identification.:thumbup:

Here’s a 6 week update. (Apologies for the grainy image. I’ve done something to my camera settings. Possibly ISO?) There’s not an amazing change in the overall look but everything in the tank has stabilised again and is looking healthy. There’s been no more melt and a fair amount of new...

Since my nightmare last week, things in the tank have calmed somewhat. Initially the Ludwigia joined the party and shed a few leaves. I also noticed some transparency on the leaves of the Hygrophilia Siamensis. However, the reduction of photoperiod and the lengthening of the co2 period seems to...

Thanks Moroland.

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Thanks Sarpijk. Alto, thanks and thanks for the tips. Hopefully though I won't have to use them in future but maybe wishful thinking. This time though I didn't even get a chance to rescue them. I was at work. By the time I got home they were very very dead. I'm guessing it must have happened...

Cheers Andy. Yeah that was a bit of an essay huh!? Sorry Had to get that off my chest. :crazy:

So it would appear there is in fact a god of planted tanks. And I have royally p***ed him off! On Tuesday I was arrogant enough to say that I had two keys to success and that keeping planted tanks would be easy from here on in. Oh the hubris! Well someone or something, disagreed with me… big...

Cheers!

All in all I’m happy where this is all going. I haven’t had any major problems yet. Haven’t seen any algae. No plants are dying off. All fish are fine. A couple of shrimp deaths but these don’t appear related to each other. I realise that it’s probably looking like this is all par for the...

I haven’t uploaded an FTS since my mini-rescape so thought I’d break out the camera last night. This is at 4 weeks 3 days: It’s also worth pointing out I have been trimming constantly. The Monte carlo has already had 2 haircuts (and been moved once). Also I have been trimming and replanting...

I've been at home all day today working so I've been keeping an eye on the drop checker. :cyclops: The DC hits this kind of green about 2 hours before lights on and stays there. Fish ans shrimp all seem happy. I could push the timing back a bit but actually I think i'll leave it. There's a...

Thanks Dantrasy. You can't really see it in the photo but I've got an Up inline diffuser (old style) on the filter out flow. Seems to work pretty well. Can't really see any bubbles unless you look hard.

Quick update: I'm now exactly a month in. There's not been a great deal of change since my mini rescape. All the plants are looking healthy although the Monte Carlo isn't quite as dense as expected. I suspect this might be because I moved a lot of it around and then gave it a dramatic...

Hi Wisey, I wouldn't rush into adding more light just yet. You've only just got things settled. Ideally you want the plants to have taken a hold and display a bit of growth. Then you can start pushing the accelerator (to steal another man's analogy). Maybe give it another week or two? After...

Looks great so far :thumbup:

You're not the only one!:rolleyes:

Seriously though mate. Ignore the top drop checker. It's lying to you. Trust the lower down one.

Hi Wisey, good looking tank. Sorry to hear about your Co2 problems. I had similar issues to yours. I am no expert by any means but here's a couple of observations of mine: - ditch the hang on DC. I had one and always showed yellow whilst other lower down DC showed dark green. The design...

Thanks Moroland! :) Co2 is 24/7 at moment yes. I took out solenoid because I had a cheap Chinese model that kept failing. Also I found it Difficult to get the timing right so I would end up with too much or too little gas during photo period. I found it much easier to set the gas to a small...

Right, that brings us up to today. That’s a bit of an essay there. Sorry about that. Hopefully the rest should be a bit more ‘journal like’. :angelic:

Here’s how the tank looks now after the partial rescape. I’m now using my Panasonic lumix camera instead of my iphone. It’s no DSLR but should be better quality. Also I’ve made sure to block out all ambient light and flicked on the spare 14w tube on the luminaire. This is probably about as good...

Thanks Sk3lly! Yeah it’s a bit of a long read. Sorry about that but with 1 month of planning and 3 weeks of running the tank I had a lot to get off my chest! :D Cheers Rob. Appreciated. Just to confirm at the moment I am only lighting it up for 6 hours. I am roughly following the Tropica ap for...

…I decided to dive straight in and have a mini rescape. As follows: - Removed the large left hand grey and right hand white stones. Replaced with smaller, less brightly coloured pebbles. - Removed the right/centre wood branch to decongest that area of the tank. Relocated to the left side of...

After 4 days I returned home to find the tank was in pretty good shape. There wasn’t much wrong apart from a dropped water level and a couple of the smaller stems had floated up to the surface. Also the water was a little cloudy but not too much. All the inhabitants looked fine. However there...

I went away for 4 days. I spent lots of time reading the featured journals section on the UKAPS site. This was both inspirational, informative and completely depressing! :( I kept flicking between images of these beautiful tanks and back to my own effort. There were a few things bugging me...

Here’s the tank three weeks later. Not much change visible in these pics using the phone but there has been a fair degree of growth. I’ve pruned most of the back stem plants and give the carpet a good haircut. I’ve added 15 cherry shrimp and not suffered any algae issues as yet.

So came the day of the scape itself. Here’s the tank in situ in its new home. Here I’ve added substrate dividers. The one on the left is for the gravel. The one on the right is a square shape which I will use to hold a small layer of sand. I have fixed a piece of brick to the bottom of my...

I decided to go for a hardscape that was based around redmoor wood. I used the plastic sheeting the tank was wrapped up in to simulate substrate. I initially wanted to ‘top down’ effect, with tree roots hanging into the water on the both ends of the tank and lots of immersed growth. However...

I’d previously been using a 60cm clearseal tank that I had de-rimmed myself. This had worked fine but the corner sealant seemed to attract algae. Because of this and the blue tint to the glass I decided to spring for and ADA 60P (and yes I will take the sticker off eventually! :D).

So, I’m currently about 3 weeks in to my current project and thought that this might be the time to start keeping a journal. I read the forum regularly but rarely post so this is all a bit new for me. I’ve kept a planted tank for a couple of years now and although I still struggle with algae...

Latest FTS (Week 8): Latest Spec: Tank: ADA Cube Garden 60P (60x30x36) Lighting: BOYU luminaire unit with 2 x 24w T5 on 6 hours per day Co2: Pressurised disposable welding bottles. Co2Art dual stage regulator with adapter. Solenoid valve set to come on at 7 hrs before lights on and 1 hr before...