120cm. Green Neons Fly

[jay]

It's changed a little. Thanks for the sand suggestion, George. I actually have gone for a mass of Fiji sand. Lots of moss. Cut the stems right down also. Was getting lots of BBA on the hardscape so I've purchased a new regulator and raised the lights about 2 foot off the tank surface. This should lessen the need for perfect saturation. Still dosing dry powders every couple days. Half tank water change every week.

 

[jay]

Still going strong. Everything except algae is growing. Added eleocharis acicularis to both far sides and back middle. Runners after a couple days!! My light is about 2ft off the water surface! Two 4th t5 tubes only. 8 hours a day.

Thanks.

 

[Piece-of-fish]

Congratulations, you are on the right track now

 

[viktorlantos]

wow this looks amazing with that moss on the bottom of the wood. Really nice tank, the foreground is perfect, only the background need to be adjusted to give a better impression.

 

[Alastair]

wow this looks amazing with that moss on the bottom of the wood. Really nice tank, the foreground is perfect, only the background need to be adjusted to give a better impression.

I totally agree, tank looks great mate, I reckon with some nice stems to add hight rear left and rear right it will be even better

 

[jay]

Congratulations, you are on the right track now

Thanks very much. Yeah I believe I am now. I've added some amazon frogbit on the surface, but I think it's soaking up all the nutrients before anything else has the chance. Is this possible? It is rather lean dosing. Also, I think it's restricting flow as over the last couple of days I've noticed a lot of surface film.

wow this looks amazing with that moss on the bottom of the wood. Really nice tank, the foreground is perfect...

Thanks you Victor. Really appreciate it. I must say the moss banks on the wood mounds are my favourite piece of 'scaping I've ever done.

I totally agree, tank looks great mate, I reckon with some nice stems to add hight rear left and rear right it will be even better

Yes Alastair, I fully agree too. I've currently got some myriophyllum mattogrossense, hygrophilla polysperma and rotala rotundefolia (sorry about the spellings) on each rear side, but I keep hacking them back to try and get a dense look, then I'll let them grow a bit more.
More pics soon, with my dslr. I know these iPhone pics are terrible but I don't get much time to upload pics on laptop.

Thanks all.

 

[flygja]

How do you keep your white sand so white? It's really beautiful... makes me regret not using more moss in a previous scape of mine.

 

[jay]

How do you keep your white sand so white? It's really beautiful... makes me regret not using more moss in a previous scape of mine.

Well I've always attributed sand discolouration to dirty filters and bright light. For this set up, the 2 t5 bulbs are nearly 2 feet off the top of the water surface, only on for 7 hours a day. Also, this sand is a nice natural colour to it. Unipac Fiji.