aquascape1987
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Hi guys, I'm just about to start forming the substrate and hard scape in my trigon 190, and was hoping for some advice.. I'm going for forming a valley with the substrate raised on either side, and also having the whole thing sloping a bit towards the front of the tank. Eg raised either side to form the valley, and higher at the back sloping down towards the front. I think that the substrate will be 20 or so cm at its highest. My idea is to form the slope with inert gravel/ cat litter contained in net sacks, cover this with some sort of mesh barrier and then have a planting layer of amazonia laid over this, with substrate supports... either the ones from green machine or I may just make my own. The tanks going to be heavily planted with carpeting plants. So really, my main questions are:
1) Any thoughts on the way I'm proposing to build up the landscape? Any better ideas?
2) Would you consider having a reverse under gravel filter under all of this to keep a flow of water through the deep substrate, the idea being to lower the chances of an aerobic activity and gas forming? This would be in addition to two water column external filters, my fluval g6 and second one to be decided.
All advice welcome and appreciated
1) Any thoughts on the way I'm proposing to build up the landscape? Any better ideas?
2) Would you consider having a reverse under gravel filter under all of this to keep a flow of water through the deep substrate, the idea being to lower the chances of an aerobic activity and gas forming? This would be in addition to two water column external filters, my fluval g6 and second one to be decided.
All advice welcome and appreciated
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