My first proper planted tank

[jayp]

Ive managed to take a few pretty rubbish pics of my tank ...

Tank 60x 40x40 ... from Amazon only £45.oo
Heater ...nano something (old one)
filter Dennerle Corner
Lights 2 LED

Substrate
Garden soil topped with playsand
River stones from my pond
Redmoor root

Plants
Fissedens
Urticularia...emmersed
Riccia...emmersed
Lillaeopsis Brassilensis
Juncus Repens
Riccardia Cham
Pellia mono
Hydoco Japan
anubis minima
Eleocharis parvula
Microsorum trident
Buce kedang purple
Buce arrogant blue

15 Ember tetras
10 Micro rasbora ...spotted
2 Blue neon rasbora
1 hillstream loach
2 Choc Gourami
Ramshorns
25 Red Crystal shrimp
Few cherries

Its lowest tech possible as am skint !!!
I weekly waterchange 50% clean rainwater
Fed daily with anything scooped out of my pond


Its been running about 3 months now, plants doing well , especially Fissedens , slow but ok
No algae ....so far

Spent 6 months reading stuff on here and admiring some epic tanks

 

[BBogdan]

Nice tank , looks so natural!

P.S. If this was my tank , I would change that big oval rock from the left side with something smaller , maybe two or three smaller ones instead of this bigger one...it will look much better , and you would have a better sense of scale

 

[jayp]

Nice tank , looks so natural!

P.S. If this was my tank , I would change that big oval rock from the left side with something smaller , maybe two or three smaller ones instead of this bigger one...it will look much better , and you would have a better sense of scale

Thank you ...yes you are right , wasnt sure if to put another root over it or change it ...I may put the big one right at the back left corner to build height a bit more under the roots .

 

[Aqua360]

Sweet tank, I hear you on the money side lol; this hobby drains my wallet fast

 

[Martin in Holland]

Great scape...., I'm usually not a big fan of rounded stones, but it works for this scape

 

[Tim Harrison]

Really nice natural scape

 

[rebel]

Wow very natural indeed! very nice.

 

[Gee]

Hi I know is been a while already you guys talk about this.. do you have an update of your tank! How's your aquarium doing! Did you grow more plants!