Hi all! I’ve been on-and-off lurking in this forum for years and decided that, with this new tank, it was time to take the plunge and document it in a journal.
I’m setting up a Dennerle 30l cube that’s been sat in my garden for about a year after a break from the hobby. Plan is for a low tech heavily planted dirted tank full of microfauna that will eventually house some Indostomus spp. which are (imo) some of the coolest fish in the world.
(Pic from a previous ill-fated attempt due to using uncapped soil and not giving the tank enough time to mature before getting the fish. Not going to make that mistake again!)
I started with some redmoor that (after many attempts and much more superglue on my fingers than I would’ve liked) I glued together with some superglue and coco fibre I had lying around.
(This pic is actually pre-gluing but I forgot to take a photo of just the wood in the tank)
Came up with a vague plan of action
And bought lots of plants off eBay (slightly disappointed with the plant to cost ratio when they arrived, but this is nothing if not an expensive hobby…).
(Plants in a bucket: Hygrophilia pinnatifida, Cryptocoryne nevelli, Vallisneria spiralis ’leopard’, Hygrophila corymbosa, Nymphea Red Tiger Lotus, red root floater and dwarf water lettuce)
Soil just arrived, but I have work I really need to get on with so will update when planted!
I’m setting up a Dennerle 30l cube that’s been sat in my garden for about a year after a break from the hobby. Plan is for a low tech heavily planted dirted tank full of microfauna that will eventually house some Indostomus spp. which are (imo) some of the coolest fish in the world.
(Pic from a previous ill-fated attempt due to using uncapped soil and not giving the tank enough time to mature before getting the fish. Not going to make that mistake again!)
I started with some redmoor that (after many attempts and much more superglue on my fingers than I would’ve liked) I glued together with some superglue and coco fibre I had lying around.
(This pic is actually pre-gluing but I forgot to take a photo of just the wood in the tank)
Came up with a vague plan of action
And bought lots of plants off eBay (slightly disappointed with the plant to cost ratio when they arrived, but this is nothing if not an expensive hobby…).
(Plants in a bucket: Hygrophilia pinnatifida, Cryptocoryne nevelli, Vallisneria spiralis ’leopard’, Hygrophila corymbosa, Nymphea Red Tiger Lotus, red root floater and dwarf water lettuce)
Soil just arrived, but I have work I really need to get on with so will update when planted!