Paulo Soares
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Good Morning,
After my "AQUA-SUSSOA tank,
https://www.ukaps.org/forum/threads/aquarium-sussoa.42794/
i decided to take a different course on this hobby. I course in wich i dont´t feel so comfortable cause I've wood tanks in the past and I know what I'm going to get in to.
This time I want to develop a truly nature aquarium.
To say the thruth i could try something simple and easy, such as a island ou a couple of trunks and wokr along with it. But I decided to complicate even.
I give more importance or recognition by the effort some do to achieve an objectiv then for the goal itself. That's my way of being in life for life no matter my own or professional.
So i started this project with lots of wood and of course i´m on half way yet.. I'm only here today to share this first developments.
Starting on 14th October i´ve reached so far what the photos below show. And at this point I don't dislike what is already done till now.
I´m working without any agenda but only through emotions. I´m not crossing a good moment in life with my Dad´s health issues so i´m working on this tank as my daily emotions provide me to.
I get home and if i feel energy (even if is a negative one) i look at the tank and my hands automatically starts to move wood.. taken out and in, more touches and experiences. Puttiing and removing, turn to right, turn to the left, breaking a branch here and there and rip these trunks as my pleasure lets me. Positioning, repositioning, more or less deep down the gravel etc.. and so I'm at this stage of making and breaking till the day i reach something that i
spontaneously look and showt: "Done! Don´t touch it anymore!”.
By this time here are some aspects to consider:
I don't intend to have stones in sight. All those i´m using in this project will be outlined with substrate so that all the tank base aspect will be substrate only.
For the time being I haven't decided yet the vertical plan (degrees) I'm going to give to the tank. It´s to soon.
Undecided on what I'm going to do in the middle of the tank ... If a sponge imitating a river, or La plata Sand (which annoys me because it's more than viewed..), or gravel or even more wood branches.
The “trees” will be fully covered of mosses. How many species will i use? Only one species? I don't know. Probably different species of MOSS.
But this will be a big challenge. Prune an aquarium so filled as I want this to be will certainly not be an easy work/job.
I´m thinking that probably I'll have to develop some tools/techniques cause in the existing scissors market i may not found the needs. Because the big trunks/branches volume i´m going to put it will be not easy to insert an Hand/Scissor to the bottom. This my feeling as I am developing this.
I believe this issue is the biggest challenge on this type of tank. Trimming Maintenance!
Just like you I´ve seen so far lots and lots of nature aquariums and each time i look at them some questions imediatelly cross to me:
"How the guy prune/trimm this?"
"How to prune and clean what it´s being cut at the same time in between all those branches?
And another thing that i´ts been worring me and i believe the most important is the bottom of the tank. If it does not stay or recreate a trully soil forest nothing else matters. I can have a pristine wood with beautiful Moss but if the soil does not recreate a forest i´ll be loosing the entire layout.
I'm also thinking about connecting branches in the side glasses. That is, the branches come from side glasses reaching the wood so that it will give a whole vision where the viewer will have to imaginate waht is not in there. The trees being integral to the composition giving the impression that the forest comes from all sides and it is not just a picture or a part of a forest. I don't know if I can convey the goal.
But ok there you have my challenge or the way i want to follow.
About reusing substrate:
This is something i´ve never done before. In all my previous tanks i always put new fertile and grain substrate. But in this one I'm going to reuse the grain. I'm not going to insert fertile substrate due to the choice of the plants that in departure will be around Anubias, Bucephalandras, Microsorum and Bolbitis. Using this kind of plants to emerge from a type of carpet that i also still haven´t decided what will be.
This 30 liter substrate itself was a heartache to sieve and filter.. The photo below exemplifies the importance of doing so. What you see on the floor has 3 cm high and is literally dust! Dirt in the grain that stemmed from the "SUSSOA". Not to mention the dust that pop up whe i was filtering this. Imagine this in the tank if you do not do this.
Lixo Substrato by Paulo Soares, no Flickr
Substrato by Paulo Soares, no Flickr
Other pictures, are the material that I still have available to work.
Assembling date:
14th October 2017
Aquarium:
100x40x40
Live Stock:
No live stock
Lighting:
Twinstar 900E (Adapted by me for 100 cm aquarium)
Filter:
EHEIM Profissional 4+600
Cerâmics Equo Stilla (3 baskets).
CO2:
NEO Difusor
CO2ART Regulator and Solenoid
Cal Aqua Double Drop Checker
Reagent JBL 2 ML.
Injection Time : 24/7
Photoperiod:
1º Month 6 Hours
2º e 3º Month 7 Horas
4º Month - 8 Horas
5º Month 9 Horas
Hardscape:
Red Moor Wood
Black Pagoda and others.
Substrate:
Tropica Soil
Fertilization:
Osmocote universal Pro 6 Months (15+9+11+2 MgO+Micros)
Plants:
On Study yet.
20171022_215759 by Paulo Soares, no Flickr
20171022_215756 by Paulo Soares, no Flickr
20171022_215751 by Paulo Soares, no Flickr
20171021_151838 by Paulo Soares, no Flickr
20171021_151835 by Paulo Soares, no Flickr
20171021_095504 by Paulo Soares, no Flickr
20171022_215014 by Paulo Soares, no Flickr
20171022_215038 by Paulo Soares, no Flickr
20171022_215051 by Paulo Soares, no Flickr
20171022_215102 by Paulo Soares, no Flickr
20171022_215110 by Paulo Soares, no Flickr
20171022_214955 by Paulo Soares, no Flickr
Best compliments to all of you!
After my "AQUA-SUSSOA tank,
https://www.ukaps.org/forum/threads/aquarium-sussoa.42794/
i decided to take a different course on this hobby. I course in wich i dont´t feel so comfortable cause I've wood tanks in the past and I know what I'm going to get in to.
This time I want to develop a truly nature aquarium.
To say the thruth i could try something simple and easy, such as a island ou a couple of trunks and wokr along with it. But I decided to complicate even.
I give more importance or recognition by the effort some do to achieve an objectiv then for the goal itself. That's my way of being in life for life no matter my own or professional.
So i started this project with lots of wood and of course i´m on half way yet.. I'm only here today to share this first developments.
Starting on 14th October i´ve reached so far what the photos below show. And at this point I don't dislike what is already done till now.
I´m working without any agenda but only through emotions. I´m not crossing a good moment in life with my Dad´s health issues so i´m working on this tank as my daily emotions provide me to.
I get home and if i feel energy (even if is a negative one) i look at the tank and my hands automatically starts to move wood.. taken out and in, more touches and experiences. Puttiing and removing, turn to right, turn to the left, breaking a branch here and there and rip these trunks as my pleasure lets me. Positioning, repositioning, more or less deep down the gravel etc.. and so I'm at this stage of making and breaking till the day i reach something that i
spontaneously look and showt: "Done! Don´t touch it anymore!”.
By this time here are some aspects to consider:
I don't intend to have stones in sight. All those i´m using in this project will be outlined with substrate so that all the tank base aspect will be substrate only.
For the time being I haven't decided yet the vertical plan (degrees) I'm going to give to the tank. It´s to soon.
Undecided on what I'm going to do in the middle of the tank ... If a sponge imitating a river, or La plata Sand (which annoys me because it's more than viewed..), or gravel or even more wood branches.
The “trees” will be fully covered of mosses. How many species will i use? Only one species? I don't know. Probably different species of MOSS.
But this will be a big challenge. Prune an aquarium so filled as I want this to be will certainly not be an easy work/job.
I´m thinking that probably I'll have to develop some tools/techniques cause in the existing scissors market i may not found the needs. Because the big trunks/branches volume i´m going to put it will be not easy to insert an Hand/Scissor to the bottom. This my feeling as I am developing this.
I believe this issue is the biggest challenge on this type of tank. Trimming Maintenance!
Just like you I´ve seen so far lots and lots of nature aquariums and each time i look at them some questions imediatelly cross to me:
"How the guy prune/trimm this?"
"How to prune and clean what it´s being cut at the same time in between all those branches?
And another thing that i´ts been worring me and i believe the most important is the bottom of the tank. If it does not stay or recreate a trully soil forest nothing else matters. I can have a pristine wood with beautiful Moss but if the soil does not recreate a forest i´ll be loosing the entire layout.
I'm also thinking about connecting branches in the side glasses. That is, the branches come from side glasses reaching the wood so that it will give a whole vision where the viewer will have to imaginate waht is not in there. The trees being integral to the composition giving the impression that the forest comes from all sides and it is not just a picture or a part of a forest. I don't know if I can convey the goal.
But ok there you have my challenge or the way i want to follow.
About reusing substrate:
This is something i´ve never done before. In all my previous tanks i always put new fertile and grain substrate. But in this one I'm going to reuse the grain. I'm not going to insert fertile substrate due to the choice of the plants that in departure will be around Anubias, Bucephalandras, Microsorum and Bolbitis. Using this kind of plants to emerge from a type of carpet that i also still haven´t decided what will be.
This 30 liter substrate itself was a heartache to sieve and filter.. The photo below exemplifies the importance of doing so. What you see on the floor has 3 cm high and is literally dust! Dirt in the grain that stemmed from the "SUSSOA". Not to mention the dust that pop up whe i was filtering this. Imagine this in the tank if you do not do this.
Other pictures, are the material that I still have available to work.
Assembling date:
14th October 2017
Aquarium:
100x40x40
Live Stock:
No live stock
Lighting:
Twinstar 900E (Adapted by me for 100 cm aquarium)
Filter:
EHEIM Profissional 4+600
Cerâmics Equo Stilla (3 baskets).
CO2:
NEO Difusor
CO2ART Regulator and Solenoid
Cal Aqua Double Drop Checker
Reagent JBL 2 ML.
Injection Time : 24/7
Photoperiod:
1º Month 6 Hours
2º e 3º Month 7 Horas
4º Month - 8 Horas
5º Month 9 Horas
Hardscape:
Red Moor Wood
Black Pagoda and others.
Substrate:
Tropica Soil
Fertilization:
Osmocote universal Pro 6 Months (15+9+11+2 MgO+Micros)
Plants:
On Study yet.
ONE OF THE FIRST ATTEMPTS
SOME DETAILS SO FAR
ACTUAL STAGE SO FAR (IN DEVELOPMENT..)
Best compliments to all of you!