Antipofish said:
This is STILL one of the most beautiful scapes I have seen. Its' simplicity only adds to it. The "little touches" like the larger gravel scattered at the boundary of the "beach" as I call it, just make ALL the difference James. Bravo! It really is "art in an aquarium".
Thank you Chris
JohnC said:
Looking lovely.
As a man whom is trying glosso for the first time in my Cthulhu inspired tank this journal is a great read in regard to the nuances of this difficult plant.
In regard to trimming, are you doing weekly or fortnightly glosso trims to keep it down to one tier of plantletts?
I'm just wondering how hard I should mow it down.
Thanks,
John
Hi John, I prune the Glosso fortnightly and cut the whole lot down to less than half a centimeter tall. The carpet regrows in about 10 days, by day 14 the carpet is about 5cm thick and requires pruning again.
Unfortunately this means that the scape only looks its best for a few days every 2 weeks.
LondonDragon said:
Stunning James as expected from the nano master
love it
Cheers Paulo
hogan53 said:
Magnificently beautiful.
Thanks mate
George Farmer said:
Another beauty to add to the collection mate.
I love the attention to detail and almost clinical appearance. The pruning of the glosso to keep it away from the front glass is an excellent touch, for example. The manicured HC looks good enough to use as a pillow.
But what I think I respect most about this and you as an aquascaper is your ability to effectively visualise and execute a layout design.
I don't think there's many other aquascapers in the UK with such a distinctive style either. The blend between classic Nature Aquarium and formal groups with such clear boundaries works brilliantly in all your work.
First class photography too. The whole set-up and its presentation just oozes professionalism.
Kudos.
Thank you George
, I'm really enjoying the pruning, I find that i can be more confident with it as the larger volume of water is more stable and forgiving than my usual 20 litre tanks.
viktorlantos said:
Hey James, Congratulations to this beauty scape. Love what you did with the leveled HC, the mix of the grass and the sandy part. Fishes were great choice to the image.
Perfect clean tank with prof capture.
Deserve a fav for sure from me
Thanks Viktor
, much appreciated.
wearsbunnyslippers said:
Damn you James, damn you and your mad scaping skills!
How are we mortals supposed to feel, looking at your beautiful tank?? I guess sick with jealousy almost describes it..
Cheers mate
Piece-of-fish said:
Beautifully green!
Hope we see even bigger tank from you James in near future
I'd give an arm and half leg to see what you could do in 120x60x60
Thanks Ed
, I wish I had space for a 120, then I could keep some discus again, perhaps one day
RossMartin said:
Hi James,
Hope your well! I love this tank, the layout, plant selection and just how healthy it looks! About to start my 75p Journal so hopefully can get it looking as good as this, but would be happy if it looked half as good as this!
How high did you have your halide and did you lower it as the tank matured?
Also with your water quality i have really hard water (as i assume you do also), do you think there is any merit in mixing in a bit of RO water or do you find you can keep most fish and plants that you want?
Cheers
Ross
P.S i may need some help in the future!!
Thanks Ross
, its good to hear from you.
The lamp is the ADA solar 2, which contains 2 36watt fluorescents rather than a halide, and yes i lowered it from 9 inches down to 7 inches from the water around week 4. This was mainly done to get the Glosso to lay flat.
For the last few years i have used unadjusted London tap water (GH 18 -22) with no ill effects. In this tank however, i'm using a 4 to 1 RO to tap ratio, water clarity seems to be the main benefit, but i do have to add more ferts as london tap water is almost on par with EI dosing with 25-30 ppm NO3 and 1-1.2ppm PO4.
I look forward to seeing your 75p.
tim said:
love your work james good to see the hobby being driven forward this tank is one of your best yet
Thanks Tim
pariahrob said:
Beautiful scape. All I can say really. Looks superb.
Thanks Rob
Cheers,
James