Piece-of-fish
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Finally i have overcome my laziness and starting this journal.
The scape was set up together with Jurii from aquascapingworld.com on his 3 week visit to London.
Long time i wanted to try dry start method and finally here it is:
Excuse again the photos. I promise to make couple more in few days
The frontal planted picture will follow tomorrow as is on another computer.
Specs:
Tank Optiwhite 60x36x30 (36 wide, 30 high)
Substrate Akadama with some peat moss, osmocote and JBL florapol..... Unipac Maui sand foreground
Lighting Full power 4x24w T5 arcadia luminaire for 11 hours
Plants HC and Lilaeopsis braziliensis
That is it for now... Now maintenance no ferts no co2 no filtration yet
As you can see plants are very healthy.
I had some problems with hc in the beginning. I think it could be due to spraying an EI solution to often (every day). I was afraid that akadama wont provide enough nutrients.
In some areas hc almost died completely. This could be seen on the photos. Other areas surprisingly started very well from the beginning.
I have then reduced the spraying to once in aproximately 3 days and diluted the solution greatly with more water.
Hc is starting to recover where it died back and growing very fast now.
Brazileinsis is growing great from the start after changing the leaves.
Both plants changed leave shape so it makes me think there could be little or now die back when i fill the water. Plant look like submerged form. Maybe due to high humidity?
Overall i am very happy how it goes.
Plus one more big one to Akadama...
The scape was set up together with Jurii from aquascapingworld.com on his 3 week visit to London.
Long time i wanted to try dry start method and finally here it is:
Excuse again the photos. I promise to make couple more in few days
The frontal planted picture will follow tomorrow as is on another computer.
Specs:
Tank Optiwhite 60x36x30 (36 wide, 30 high)
Substrate Akadama with some peat moss, osmocote and JBL florapol..... Unipac Maui sand foreground
Lighting Full power 4x24w T5 arcadia luminaire for 11 hours
Plants HC and Lilaeopsis braziliensis
That is it for now... Now maintenance no ferts no co2 no filtration yet
As you can see plants are very healthy.
I had some problems with hc in the beginning. I think it could be due to spraying an EI solution to often (every day). I was afraid that akadama wont provide enough nutrients.
In some areas hc almost died completely. This could be seen on the photos. Other areas surprisingly started very well from the beginning.
I have then reduced the spraying to once in aproximately 3 days and diluted the solution greatly with more water.
Hc is starting to recover where it died back and growing very fast now.
Brazileinsis is growing great from the start after changing the leaves.
Both plants changed leave shape so it makes me think there could be little or now die back when i fill the water. Plant look like submerged form. Maybe due to high humidity?
Overall i am very happy how it goes.
Plus one more big one to Akadama...