Jordi, that video was filmed almost month ago, and now the situation is much worse, I'd say. I managed to broke the both glass pipes (during regular cleaning 1/month) and tank was without external filter for 1 week, now it's running again with Eheim green pipes. I found their performance much worse than glass pipes (in the same position) or maybe the filter need to be cleaned/restarted again, I dunno.
The plants are going like crazy after I increased light period up to 7 hours (back in April, IIRC). Maybe it was mistake?
Anyway, today there are too much plants and I'm not happy anymore with photo shooting results. When you watch the tank for the man's height stays tall - you enjoy the lush plants on the upper part of the tank. But in the same time they create too much shade over right bottom corner and therefore it's too hard to make a proper photo. (And my very own camera is crap - I'm desperately trying to find something not too expensive but with good quality - any tips guys?)
Here is my failing attempt (last weekend) to get something for IAPLC (silly me: I forgot to disable timestamp).
100_6072 by
bialix1, on Flickr
Obviously there were too much p.gayi at left. So I cut it:
100_6101 by
bialix1, on Flickr
I think that one is better but still not enough for IAPLC.
Thinking about the layout I'd say my mistake is typical: too much plants, too big plants. I need either remove half of plants (e.g. narrow fern) or simply start new scape.
Or I may let it running on its own and watch where it arrives in the end...[DOUBLEPOST=1400790267][/DOUBLEPOST]Sales person in the shop told me about customers asking about that tank: "Oh, look. Are you changing there something?".
And she replied: "No, the plants just grow."
Funny.
But that's true: every month, every week every planted tank changed a little bit, and that's, well, nature magic!