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Well, I'm about to strip down the tank and start again! So I thought I'd post this. It's not the most well thought out scape, in fact it's not thought out at all, I just chucked everything in and waited for it to grow. I quite like it though. Spec: 12 litre optiwhite 11watt arc pod...

I love it!

I'm jealous, looks like you're going to have fun! :D

The difference in this tank is amazing! Fab blyxa! I love your discus too, and your photography. Keep those pictures coming... Interesting you keep shrimp with discus... I would have assumed they'd be eaten!

I hope so. I have no ideas yet. I will have to think about it while I'm sat in rainy Spain.

that's it Sam!

It's looking really good! I agree with your dislike of bow fronts. They do have their place and look nice, but viewing isn't as good.

Clark I'm glad my jounal has helped you :D I gave the HC it's first big trim today. I noticed that a few leaves at the bottom were turning a bit yellow. So I've uprooted most of it, and spread out what remained. I'm going on holiday to Spain tommorow (and the weather forcast predicts...

Re: Superman's Nano - 14ltr Can't wait to see it planted up! Looking good so far :-)

I will update soon with more photos. Things are progressing very well still. Amazing shrimp growth! Looking back at the old pics from when I last updated, I can't believe how small they used to be! I'm actually thinking it's now reaching it's 'peak' in terms of growth. I'm starting to think...

Re: saintly's 120cm iwagumi looking really good, can't wait to see it fill in.

Re: saintly's MA "long term" scape. Sounds interesting and I'm sure you'll do a great job. Something like Supercoley's tank (the one with all the ferns) would be cool... JBL don't like nitrates and phosphates... will you be dosing them? I suppose with slow growing plants maybe you wouldn't...

Re: James3200s 6.5x2x2' planted tank - UPDATE - 23/01/09 wow I'm glad you didn't lose them from lack of water! They look wonderful swimming about with the others. This really is a fantastic tank!

I've spotted all three amanos at once, so they're healthy and it's definately just a shell. It's too big to be a cherry shell, so it must be an amano one.

Re: Tonsers Nano Rouge - planted ! This is starting to look really cool, it'll look great once the HC has grown out. I like the rocks.

From your description it sounds like a shell - falling apart, transparent and not pink! I've left it in for them to eat, I heard you're meant to do that.

I'm sure the cherries have grown already! I think one the amanos shed it's shell this morning. How do I tell the difference between a shed shell, and a dead shrimp? I can only see two live amanos, but ever since I put them in, one has been hiding. And now this shell/body? turns up... All...

I can't wait to see what this looks like with plants... the hardscape is class!

Paulo I can't tell you how pleased I am with the cherries! Little ones, big ones, medium ones... they're fantastic. The bigger ones have a taken on a vivid red colour now, and even the tiniest ones are starting to show their colours. The tiny ones are VERY cute. One of them was hitching a...

wow from that link, I think you may be right! I went to my LFS today, and couldn't resist buying three amano shrimp. They look HUGE compared to the cherries!

Paulo, how low is a very low temparature? I have turned the heater off on this tank - it's now 21-22 degrees centigrade. I'm dubious that the moss is java, because someone emailed me who had also bought from the same ebay seller. They said that they'd bought 'java moss' and recieved ordinary...

I bought it on ebay as java moss. However, it seems to grow only upwards (I know it looks like it's not, that's because I've been rotating it - I'm trying to hide the mesh). Having never kept moss before, I don't know if this is normal java moss behaviour? So yeah... your guess is as good as...

:D thanks guys! I'm pretty pleased with this. It's my first nano, my other tank holds 100gals!

I put in a cycled bit of media from my big tank just in case, and added shrimp (from Paulo)! They seem to be settling in nicely and are starting to colour up. All good stuff. Here are pics, notice how the HC and moss have grown:

wow...

lol yeah... heating up the hose is a really good idea. Get a jug of really hot water and just dangle the end in it for a little while. That works well. Like I said, just do it really gently and don't try to force the hose on too hard.

Nice glassware. When you put the CO2 line/hoses onto it, be VERY careful not to break the glass. Ease it on REALLY gently and slowly.

hmmm... At the begining of the week I got some Nerite snails, who have settled in nicely. I haven't changed the water for just over a week to see if the nitrite would remain stable, and I tested it today and it's between colours. It's between 0 and 0.025. This tank has been running...

Dan's lost, he's trying to find my lost fire extinguishers which the couriers have been driving round the country for a week!

It looked great before the trim, but I'm sure it'll look even better when it's grown back. Fantastic scape, you should be really happy

you are the true king of the blyxa! Love the zebra plecs too, I hope they breed for you.

I too wouldn't recommend the JBL spiral diffusers. I used two of these, with the extender units. I'm now using two very small filter (Hagen elite), which I'm running the CO2 tubing into. The impellor chops up the bubbles and it's VERY efficient.

Re: saintly's 120cm iwagumi How do you find the temparature with the radiator next to it? I've always been put off placing tanks next to radiators.

I bet the shrimp like that big clump of moss! I think you could do with some branches with moss growing on it too. Also, is there any way you could make the heater less prominent? It's spoiling the look. If you can't move it, maybe grow some long stems in front of it to hide it?

This is looking brilliant. When I'm next in Nottingham (my cousins live there) I'll be sure to take the time to get over and have a look.

thankyou! TDI - that's your blyxa in there! The rest is in my 100gal and it's doing even better than the bit in the nano! No idea why, because it's in sand! The only thing I can think of, is I'm using pressurised CO2 in the 100gal, and easycarbo in the nano. Nick I hope your light turns up.

Here are some pictures. The algae on the big rock looks worse in these pictures than it actually is. I haven't cleaned the rock for a week either... when the algae was at it's worst, the rock was looking how it is in these pics, after one DAY! full tank shot left side right side showing...

How strange - I wonder how that could be though seeing as AS is dry when you first get it? Or do the creepy crawlie eggs dry out and then 'activate' in the water?

I will try to get some pictures up soon. The HC is growing in very nicely, and the algae growth has slowed down a lot. The blyxa, while not growing extremely fast and really thriving, is doing alright, and staying alive. There was some initial melting, but that has stopped now. I think...

good idea, that's how you will learn and get better at things.

I like this one the best

brilliant! You're so brilliant!

Really brilliant looking tank! I love how you've put it in the wall aswell. Beautiful discus. I'm wondering if your Co2 is stable. You say you start it at 9am, then lights are on at 9.30. Then you're turning it off half an hour before lights out. On my 400litre, I'm finding to get the...

Try the chemist Nick

I like it, it's a really good start. I think it'll look great once everything has grown in more. Interesting idea using soda water for CO2. I'm wondering though, if you're using the same bottle, that'll last you quite a while and won't all the CO2 evaporate once the soda water has gone...

Nick had a good idea of siliconing small pieces of perspex to the sides, and then clamping the lamps to them - raising them up. Might try it, might not. TBH the water level doesn't really bother me that much. Algae's getting worse, it has grown on the big rock and was actually pearling...

but then what about the HOB?

That's right! Also, the HOB has a 'tank water level' marker which is rather low too.

what's going on with the tank now? Love it how it was... update?

Here are pics with blyxa added! I'm not sure the P Helferi looks right, I'm thinking of replacing it with clumps of java moss - shrimps like moss. full tank shot: HC with hair algae shot:

I thought the red tint was due to high light? I've never kept it before though so I don't know.

Yep, there are no fish and no shrimp. Eventually this is going to be a cherry shrimp tank. I posted this thread: viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3765 a while back, and nobody said anything about blyxa not liking easy carbo. I will ask Dan though...

lol I don't expect you to! Today I recieved huge amounts of blyxa from Dan (TDI-line)! Hurrah! I have planted it and will put pics up later when my partner gets home from work (he has the camera). Today I spotted some hair algae growing on the HC and P helferi. I'm at a loss to what has...

get a pair of tights, chop a leg off and fill it with a fair amount of gravel or sand. Then tie the end, and you have a weight. My redmoor looks about the same size as yours, it took a couple of months before it stopped trying to float.

Ammonia is slowly coming down - today my test says 1.2mg/l. I'm doing a water change every other day and dosing just over 0.1mg of easycarbo every day and just over 0.1ml TPN+ every other day. I trimmed the hygrophila, as it had reached the surface and was starting to grow emersed. And I've...

Sounds like you've really thought it through. Hopefully, with this amount of planning the tank will be a major success! I love discus, but my 100gal is full of other fish.

Looks like a good start, it'll be interesting to see the HC grow emersed. I'm growing some in a small tub on my window sill just for the fun of it. Can't tell you how it's doing yet though, as it's been there under a week. What sort of lights have you got? Have you thought about what you...

Don't know if you've got rid of those watermarks yet, but lemon juice works well, and isn't toxic to fish.

George said NOT to! viewtopic.php?f=11&t=4249

I see what you mean, but that's the head of my swan/duck! I will definately remove it at some point though. I like your idea of the block of stems. Maybe a bright red but small leaved plant? This tank is going to be my ever changing scape, where I practise. For the moment I'll stick with...

Thanks clark, I don't often use test kits, but I thought it would be a good idea to monitor the ammonia from the aquasoil. How long does it usually take for the ammonia spike to go down? Why do you say they cause more problems than they solve? Is it because they're not all that accurate? I...

we have pearling! ammonia is at the top end of my test kit - 5mg/l :shock:

Thanks Clark I'll keep an eye on the cat. It's best she doesn't drink from it though because once the shrimp are in, shemight get excited and knock the whole tank down! Silly cat... they get fresh drinking water every day but they still prefer to drink out of puddles... and now fish tanks. I...

Caught the cat drinking out of the tank today. It has easy carbo in it and I've heard it's toxic - will the cat suffer from using the tank as a drinking bowl? Things are progressing fine, the filter is less noisy, the hygro has finally stopped uprooting, and I think the HC may be growing a bit.

Re: saintly's 60cm opti-white looking forward to seeing updates on this :D

nice wood :-) hope it goes well for you

Re: My Corner Tank - Venezia 190 This tank is amazing! Lovely healthy looking fish too!

I'm not using no CO2 at all, I'm using easy carbo. I like the idea of it being an algaecide aswell, plus it keeps extra equipment out of the tank.

I'm planning on doing a 50% water change daily. It's only slight yellowing, not anything major, but I'll see what happens. I'm inclined to leave it alone for at least a week and see if it clears on it's own.

Thanks Mark :-) Well, I'm glad I took photos last night, because today the water has gone a bit yellow. I'm guessing that's the aquasoil. Does carbon soak up ferts? Because I'm thinking of putting in carbon to sort the yellowness. The HOB is still very noisey - anyone have any advise...

Thanks very much for your feedback guys! I can do with all the help I can get! My partner has offered to try and break the big rock for me in a more manly way with correct tools, but I've said to leave it and I'm going to see whether it grows on me, or grates. I just realised... I forgot to...

Well... today my new opti white nano tank came in the post from Aqua Essentials. So the journal begins! I've never had a nano before. My current tank is 100gals! This one is 2.5gals I think. This is also the first time I've used and opti white tank, Aqua Soil, kept shrimp, used a HOB, or...

Re: Jay's "The Fobidden Land" ADA entry teaser. I like the Microsorum!

Re: Jay's "The Fobidden Land" ADA entry teaser. That will look really nice once you've got rid of the algae. I love the scape! The only thing that strikes me, is that you have two species of shoaling fish - I think it would look better with just the one species. Either the black neons or the...