GreenNeedle
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Just a few backdated entries to introduce this scape:
19th April 2013
Technical Specs:
30 litre Opti-white aquarium (L 40cm, H 30cm, D 30cm)
Eheim 2211 external cannister filter
Beamworks 9 x 1W Luminaire (8 hours per day)
Fertilisation 0.5ml Lush Max daily
Plants: Fissidens Fontanus, Ammania Bonsoi, Monosolenium Tenerum,Vesicularia ferriei, Taxiphyllum Sp (flame moss.)
Livestock: Neocaridina Heteropoda var Yellow.
Substrate: Akadama and inert pool filter silica sand
Hardscape - Slate Phyllite broken into small stones and shards.
This time after several failures trying to do simple scapes that didn't hide any negelct I decided to just make something that was very structural and use very slow growing plants on it. I guess it is supposed to look like a river with trees on the banks but that was more just a bit of fun. The scape's name wasn't really a description of something I was trying to achieve but purely that the rock reminds me of Snowdonia.
The main plant is Fissidens Fontanus that is laid inbetween all the rocks. There is some Pellia along the 'riverbank' and Ammania Bonsoi represents the trees.
The weeping and flame moss is purely some stray contaminants that appeared.
This tank will have 4 weeks emersed before water is added to let the Fissidens get a strangelehold over the substrate.
First I cleaned the tank out thoroughly, then smashed up some of the large Slate rocks I had in the Portinho scape. I built the scape in layers, adding rocks to get the slopes for the riverbanks then filling in another layer until I had readched where I wanted the top to be. At this time I was only using a small 3W clip on light while I waited for the beamworks luminaire to arrive.
19th April 2013
Technical Specs:
30 litre Opti-white aquarium (L 40cm, H 30cm, D 30cm)
Eheim 2211 external cannister filter
Beamworks 9 x 1W Luminaire (8 hours per day)
Fertilisation 0.5ml Lush Max daily
Plants: Fissidens Fontanus, Ammania Bonsoi, Monosolenium Tenerum,Vesicularia ferriei, Taxiphyllum Sp (flame moss.)
Livestock: Neocaridina Heteropoda var Yellow.
Substrate: Akadama and inert pool filter silica sand
Hardscape - Slate Phyllite broken into small stones and shards.
This time after several failures trying to do simple scapes that didn't hide any negelct I decided to just make something that was very structural and use very slow growing plants on it. I guess it is supposed to look like a river with trees on the banks but that was more just a bit of fun. The scape's name wasn't really a description of something I was trying to achieve but purely that the rock reminds me of Snowdonia.
The main plant is Fissidens Fontanus that is laid inbetween all the rocks. There is some Pellia along the 'riverbank' and Ammania Bonsoi represents the trees.
The weeping and flame moss is purely some stray contaminants that appeared.
This tank will have 4 weeks emersed before water is added to let the Fissidens get a strangelehold over the substrate.
First I cleaned the tank out thoroughly, then smashed up some of the large Slate rocks I had in the Portinho scape. I built the scape in layers, adding rocks to get the slopes for the riverbanks then filling in another layer until I had readched where I wanted the top to be. At this time I was only using a small 3W clip on light while I waited for the beamworks luminaire to arrive.