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Forrest Bridge 300lt. Vid update 5 may. Emergent growth!

Re: Forrest Bridge. Update 29 jan, new plants and pics

Right, new bulbs arrived today and they are MUCH better. Colours looking alot less washed out :)

eres some updated pics after a Massive crop and rearange.

Also the colouring from the new bulbs in much better :)

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Amano shrimp
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This is PRE equipment tidy! Most of the things I only use infrequently are now in a cupboard. Just kept the daily bits under the tank!
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Some of the first lot of HC surviving from the low light. Yet to see it take off!
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Plecs out, must be night time!!!

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Thanks again for looking!
 
Re: Forrest Bridge. Update 19 Feb, new plants, lights and pi

lovely mate :) the hygrophila on the right is looking wicked, love the graded gravels.
 
Re: Forrest Bridge. Update 19 Feb, new plants, lights and pi

Its looking great mate, the marine tank is coming along nicely too! :)
 
Re: Forrest Bridge. Update 19 Feb, new plants, lights and pi

Quick update :)

Not really done alot to the tank since the big crop... not really had to :)

Things are looking pretty good on the whole.

Theres a little BBA on the rocks dead front center but they've had that for ages and I'm reluctant to mess with things as long as its not expanding.

Apart from that I'm pretty much on a maintanance program with the tank now, the less messing the better lol

Oh oh oh, my HC has finally started to really root and spread.
Theres only a small area where the ground shoots are spreading at the moment but its promising. I've gone through 6 pots now fighting innitially low lighting then the corys but it looks like I'm on the long road to growing my HC carpet :)
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Random pics

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Thanks, chris
 
Re: Forrest Bridge. Update 24 Feb, Pics

Tank looks great fella. Loving the 'cliffs' And has given me the idea for my tank too.

Sam
 
Re: Forrest Bridge. Update 24 Feb, Pics

Just a very quick update, no new pics at the mo.

I've removed the 6 cloud minnows to see if I can breed them in a smaller tank of their own, will put them back in a few weeks.

I replaced the heater as I got it second hand with the tank and did not know how old it was. The old heater is now being used when I make up SW for my marine tank.

I added one of my spare bulbs to the light unit so I've gone up to running 4x54w T5ho. I was running 3 till yesterday but my HC was still not spreading how I'd like. I noticed alot more pearling late afternoon so well chuffed :)

When cropping all my stems I tried moving my power heads about....
Not the best idea. this only brought on some BBA in a few places in the tank.
Have put them back where they were lol.
Moral of that one, if somethings working.... leave it alone!

My stems are making a very slow recovery after being cropped at substrate height. I didn't know wether they would come back at all so happy with that.
The new growth is alot more attractive than the original growth from when I was only running the T8's.

Everything else plant wise is just thickening out nicely. Not really had to trim anything height wise, just all getting nice and bushy :)

Fish wise theres been no deaths, births etc.

I am getting a male platy today though to go with the 3 females. Possibly not the best idea but I can't help myself lol

Will update with pics when I get the chance.

Chris
 
Re: Forrest Bridge. update 13 mar, Pics

I've just got back from being away and I was surprised at the amount of growth...

Heres the pics :)


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Further updates soon :)
 
Re: Forrest Bridge. update 21 apr, Pics

A rapid transformation!

maybe there are a few things that can be learned from this? going away...did the tank get any ferts, waterchanges? etc etc.

Take note of what happened before and after, and apply this to when your at home maybe?

good job
 
Re: Forrest Bridge. update 21 apr, Pics

Thanks guys.

I've played around with the the way the stems sit and let a little more light down to the from whilst also trying to get more hygrophillia to grow out the top ;)

I've moved the right hand power head down a little to try and push move of the co2 around the bottom again. I've given up on a nice carpet but with the increased mass of plants I've seen a little BBA come back at the front.

I've removed a bulb aswell today to slow the growth back a little... back down to 3 54w T5s lol

I used shorter hoses to begin with George but it was difficult to get the filter out without making a mess so I made the hoses about 12" longer and no more wet cabinet and carpet during maint lol

Yes I did the nasty and put the male platy in lol. Theres now 4 girls and a boy.... its like a little porn show lmao

Might have to put some pics up of my marine later... got a star fish and 5 new corals today :)
 
Re: Forrest Bridge. update 21 apr, Pics

Certainly got some good growth going on there, :thumbup:

john.
 
I managed to find 15 baby platys in there yesterday and put them in the kitchen tank lmao
 
Hi Chris, i'm new to this forum an have been reading through your journal as i'm thinking about using aquatic compost for a substrate but wasnt to sure if it was any good (looking at your latest pics i can see that it works pretty good lol). I'm upgrading my tank at the end of the month (been ordered just waiting for it to arrive), think that aquatic compost is the way to go an the money i save on substrate i'll spend on co2 an plants. Thanks for taking the time to upload the pics, an to keep your notes updated.
 
Hi jenks,

Welcome to Ukaps. :)

I've not posted in a while on here but there are no changes lol

I'd recommend the compost however be patient and try not to disturb it too much till its settled. The water clouds quickly before roots take hold etc.

Where abouts are you from fella?
 
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