Hi there,
My tank is an old rio 180 which at the time ( 4 years ago ) was a high tech planted tank. I slowly lost interests in getting this tank perfect so gradually pulled some of the more demanding plants out and ripped out the co2 to leave nature to take over. It was my first experience at aquascaping and it never looked great to my satisfaction. I honestly should have been burned to hell cause I only really fed the fish and did once a months a water change over the last 2 years. It did look horrible, covered in all kinds and I would be embarrassed to check my water parameter. I was about to pull the plug as I have redecorated my house and it looked completely out of place. So one more reason you would say to leave this hobby behind. But instead I popped over to the Green Machine and acquire a new ADA setup 60 P. It has always been my dream to have a feature that would be tailored hand in hand with Mr Findleys team and I. So all in all I have 2 tanks now, one is turning really great and one that has no purpose of beauty or fascination.
I would be happy to give a new life to this tank but keeping 2 new high tech tanks would be too much for me but instead I would want to go into shrimps. Easiest route would be to rip out everything in the tank and start all over again or could I keep whatever I got in there and top up proper shrimp soil. It is well settle just need some TLC. So far I started cleaning the glass, pruning nasty leaves and cleaning filters and more regular WC, it looks already transformed.
I have in this tank only a forest of Chryptos, which would be a shame to get rid of.
Water wise I use tap water which is over 20dgh. I use RO for my other tank so moving to RO completely is not a problem, just question to use some Gh+ . The substrate is a mix jbl stuff, sand and gravel but way to shallow to my liking, roughly about an 1-1,5" . All the fish will be rehoused so anyone lives in Cornwall help yourself. I have 5 adult torpedos, 3 adult Polka, 1 adult rubber nose, one adult Siamese and 6 adults of something I don't know the name of.
Looking forward in reading your ideas, cheers !
My tank is an old rio 180 which at the time ( 4 years ago ) was a high tech planted tank. I slowly lost interests in getting this tank perfect so gradually pulled some of the more demanding plants out and ripped out the co2 to leave nature to take over. It was my first experience at aquascaping and it never looked great to my satisfaction. I honestly should have been burned to hell cause I only really fed the fish and did once a months a water change over the last 2 years. It did look horrible, covered in all kinds and I would be embarrassed to check my water parameter. I was about to pull the plug as I have redecorated my house and it looked completely out of place. So one more reason you would say to leave this hobby behind. But instead I popped over to the Green Machine and acquire a new ADA setup 60 P. It has always been my dream to have a feature that would be tailored hand in hand with Mr Findleys team and I. So all in all I have 2 tanks now, one is turning really great and one that has no purpose of beauty or fascination.
I would be happy to give a new life to this tank but keeping 2 new high tech tanks would be too much for me but instead I would want to go into shrimps. Easiest route would be to rip out everything in the tank and start all over again or could I keep whatever I got in there and top up proper shrimp soil. It is well settle just need some TLC. So far I started cleaning the glass, pruning nasty leaves and cleaning filters and more regular WC, it looks already transformed.
I have in this tank only a forest of Chryptos, which would be a shame to get rid of.
Water wise I use tap water which is over 20dgh. I use RO for my other tank so moving to RO completely is not a problem, just question to use some Gh+ . The substrate is a mix jbl stuff, sand and gravel but way to shallow to my liking, roughly about an 1-1,5" . All the fish will be rehoused so anyone lives in Cornwall help yourself. I have 5 adult torpedos, 3 adult Polka, 1 adult rubber nose, one adult Siamese and 6 adults of something I don't know the name of.
Looking forward in reading your ideas, cheers !