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So, I may have neglected plant maintenance for the last month or so...

The Eheim filter i was running was knackered, I think the impeller was damaged. Rather than get it fixed i purchased a Allpondsolutions EF-150 and I am so impressed. For £30 it's a superb little filter running at 400lph, pipe work that comes with it is also really nice, highly recommended.

Received a load of rotalas from @hogan53 last week, gave them a week to bed in then gave it a hard cut today. The macranda doesn't really fit but i'll find somewhere for it in a differant tank. 27 Litre Update

It's rotala 'green'

As promised, here the 'rescape' still very much a work in progress. Yesterday i upgraded to a 20W 6000k floodlight as i wasn't getting the growth i wanted from my (very old) T5s. Also, moved to an inline diffuser. Hoping to get the rotala very thick, i grew this from only a couple of stems so...

Thanks, but i don't think the arm/bracket that comes preattached is long enough to hang the light at 90 degrees above the tank.

Thinking of swapping the t5s out for an LED floodlight, want to get that shimmer. Any ideas on cheap hanging brackets that will work, I only want to do this if it won't cost a lot. I'm sure cheap arms/brackets that can be bolted to the wall exist but i don't know what to search for, any tips...

I've never tested it to be honest. I live in Suffolk so it's fairly hard. Used to do water changes about once a month. The tank has now been replanted, though I've kept the same hardscape as I was really happy with it. I've implemented a some co2 this time and i'm using all three bulbs on the...

Yes, only 8w.

So very busy with life at the moment, so it could be a while!

Thanks, I think it's going to get a little rescape soon, the ferns and moss is started to wear on me a bit. Thinking of pulling it all out and then filling the background with grasses.

I first removed as much of it manually as i could, then did around 3 separate blackouts over a month each of about 4/5 days. Plants being low energy didn't suffer at all. The most important thing is to work out what is causing it, as it will just come back if you don't change anything after the...

Do a blackout, that was the only thing to get rid of it for me. Increasing the ferts just prevented it coming back.

Yes, the tank did survive the move, took a few water changes to remove all the dirt and gunk that collected at the front pane of glass during it though! I'll post some pictures in the coming weeks, the room it's in is still full of boxes. In the weeks before the move I did struggle with cyano...

Love seeing the Cleithracara maronii, my favourite fish, you don't seem to see them as often as i'd expect.

Thanks! Travelling less than 5 miles, so that shouldn't be a problem, I was thinking of using some bags full of air to support the oak root as my main concern is that falling over and uprooting stuff at the back.

Thanks for all the kind comments guys, I want to assure anyone thinking of setting up a low tech tank that this was super easy, and also really cheap when compared to setting up a high tech tank. I pretty much just used left lots of spare bits and bobs i had laying around from other tanks. The...

Thanks! At the moment i'm just dosing my ei mix, but only a couple ml of it about once every two weeks. I'll probably move to something simpler like Tropicas ferts though.

Flowering Hydrocotyle tripartita

Quick shot after monthly maintenance, which is basically a scrub of the glass, trim of the moss and a water change. Hydrocotyle tripartita is now growing out of the tank, and I love the natural look it gives. Added some Bolbitis in the rear corner although you can't see much of it currently...

It's been almost two months since i started this thread so here's a little update. I've done almost no maintenance with the plants apart from trimming the moss. Rasboras went back to the shop as they just weren't active enough, been replaced by 10 neon tetras which i feel work really well in...

Thought I'd add a couple pictures of the DIY stand I made, it's not perfect and could do with another coat of paint and some varnish, but I think I'm happy enough with it. It was the first time I've really DIYed anything, so I'm very happy with the result.

Yep, no co2, no liquid carbon, just occasionally fert dosing. Thanks for this, I didn't really want the cherry shrimp just the lady at the lfs couldn't be bothered to take it out, would Amanos or other shrimp work the same way? I don't fancy having a massive colony of cherries again...

My girlfriend asked that I set up a scape for the lounge. Because I'm pretty busy and don't have much time for maintenance right now I decided to set up something low tech and easy to care for, this is what I came up with. Having only previously had high tech planted tanks I couldn't believe how...

Quick update to say that this tank has been taken down, as i will be moving home over the next few months. Almost a year to the day since i first started the tank, the timing felt right. It has been a very encouraging experience, and i'm looking forward to setting up a new tank, probably in an...

The thought of mosses had crossed my mind, but I've never quite settled on the idea. I assume you're suggesting planting it in the little nooks and crannies of the dragonstone? What kind of moss would you suggest?

Thanks guys. I do scrub the front stone occasionally but i never intend to remove all the algae, the rear stone I haven't cleaned in months, and I honestly think I prefer it that way. Here's an old picturem of the tank, before the Star Grass went in back when I cleaned it every day, and to...

Started this tank in late January. It's my first aquascape. It's also my first foray into planted tanks. Started off low tech, went high tech for 4 months, after the extinguisher ran out, I just decided to move to liquid co2, which seems to have kept the carpet alive, even if it's not quite as...