Jakes's New Aquascape in the making

[Jakes]

Thanks guys, i dont have the space or 'willing wife' to run a specific aquarium for that so i guess they will just go into the food chain... Or filter

I had a look in the shrimp section of the forums which was interesting and very much a educating experience regarding the raising of baby Amanos


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[Jakes]

Hey guys

Ive been away for some considerable time and the tank now looks like...

As you cam see the Java Moss has completely taken over and overwhelmed allot of the plants. I have some plants coming to redo the scape this weekend.

Just have a question regarding the substrate. I was just going to reuse the current substrate and continue fertilising with what my wife dis while I was away... It clearly suits the Java Moss. Would that be an issue?

Thanks


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[Jakes]

Good evening,

So i didnt have time to pick plants but really wanted to get the tanks sorted so I ordered a 'box' of plants from Aqua Essentials for a 25L tank and now my aquarium looks like:

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[Mark Allen]

wow, your H.triarita grew loads. I have some in my tank and its no bigger than the day I put it in, lol.

 

[Jakes]

Hey guys so it's been a few weeks since I replanted the set-up so I thought I'd do a quick update.

The new plants are:

Hygrophila corymbosa

Echinodorus grisebachii 'Bleherae'

Echinodorus grisebachii 'Tropica'

Gymnocoronis spilanthoides

Clinopodium brownei

Oldies but Goldies - the only ones that I kept from my initial selection that survived the 'moss-plosion' when I was away:

Echinodorus rubra

Bolbitus heudelotii


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[Jakes]

Hey guys,

So next week I am going away for a month so I did a serious pruning session and also collapsed my Son's 20l Nano and moved his fish, filter and decoration (big old chunk of wood) into the main tank. The idea being that they guy wo will be looking after the tank while Im gone can only do it every other day so by having just the one tank he can easily look after it all.

As a added bonus the nano's filter remains active so on our return I can get my sons tank up and running fairly quickly.

We will see how the tank does with no fertiliser for a month and also no CO2, I'm switching it off next Tuesday...

This is what it looks like bow after a huge pruning session

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[Jakes]

Just a little update, the tank is running nicely can't complain been up now for 19 months now, i dose Colombo 'complete' fertiliser once a week and do a water change once every two weeks and clean the filter alternating weeks.

Ive added a Fluval U2 internal filter (all i had on hand) to increase flow on the left side of the tank and it has made a considerable difference, i only run foam pre-filter pads in it no other media.

I have a three week 'staycation' coming up so may do something different to the aquarium... still have to decide... though i like it and more importantly the missus likes it!

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[Jakes]

So its time for a change. The scape is two years old on in that time the raided sections in the two corners have gone decidedly flat. I think I will restart with a new thread on the rescape but still have to decide on that.

In preparation for the change I have gone away from T5’s and trying out Fluval’s Fresh and Plant LED light, and so far so good, it looks pretty good and you get a slight ‘shimmer’ effect similar to Kessil pendant lights... just not as pronounced. Here are some pictures of what its like now...

This is with the T5’s, running Fluval bulbs, one Power Spectrum and one Life Spectrum

This is with the new Fluval LED unit

Personally I don’t see much in the difference, here is a picture of the different LED lights in the unit, there are 5 different LED colours.

And some current plant life, well see if anything changes

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