faizal
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I am sure that by now there are lots of people who are probably wondering " Will he ever fill up his aquarium with water?!!" I am very sorry guys.
Well with the main wood still leeching tannins i am really left with quite a bit of time in my hands & plus there's nothing really much i'd rather do,...so i thought I would try out with a new low tech tank. My son's old tank is currently no longer there. It was a real shame because it was coming along very nicely.
Here's an FTS of the hardscape,...of course the final result is yet to be seen,...still have to plant it properly.
I really like little caves in an aquscape because i think the fishes & hopefully shrimps will feel really cosy going in & out of them.
Here are a couple of more shots of the foreground area. I really wish i had a very nice looking Mekong Sand to cover the foreground area but this was all i had lying around in my cupboard.
I took this shot to give the viewing eye an idea about the level of the substrate heights between the foreground & background areas.
I have some plants ready. I am planning on planting them later this evening when i get home.
My plant lists are
Vallisneria asiatica
Staurogynes
e. tenellus
some anubias
mini bolbitis
mini java fern
cryptocoryne cordata
crypt wendtii green & brown
java moss
crypt lucens
crypt nevellii
tank size is about 50 Litres
Light is a single T8 tube 10 watts ( it's just a regular shop light) .So that's about 0.2 Watts per Litre (thank you Clonitza for suggesting this)
Planning on running it for 3.5 hrs a day for the first month. Then decide later whether i should increase the duration of the photoperiod.
Substrate : i decided to go with Aquabasis Plus at the bottom. I placed a mesh over this like Troi does in his tanks then capped it with some Seachem Onyx sand.
I really hope I can grow those Vals & mini java fern. I really love the canopy effect that the Vals produce. So nice & cosy. The last time I tried these plants I just fried them to bits. I don"t know if it was my lights because I tried to grow them with T5 tubes & without co2. But with my java ferns ,...i just killed them with my regular T8s
Please let me know what you think.
Well with the main wood still leeching tannins i am really left with quite a bit of time in my hands & plus there's nothing really much i'd rather do,...so i thought I would try out with a new low tech tank. My son's old tank is currently no longer there. It was a real shame because it was coming along very nicely.
Here's an FTS of the hardscape,...of course the final result is yet to be seen,...still have to plant it properly.
I really like little caves in an aquscape because i think the fishes & hopefully shrimps will feel really cosy going in & out of them.
Here are a couple of more shots of the foreground area. I really wish i had a very nice looking Mekong Sand to cover the foreground area but this was all i had lying around in my cupboard.
I took this shot to give the viewing eye an idea about the level of the substrate heights between the foreground & background areas.
I have some plants ready. I am planning on planting them later this evening when i get home.
My plant lists are
Vallisneria asiatica
Staurogynes
e. tenellus
some anubias
mini bolbitis
mini java fern
cryptocoryne cordata
crypt wendtii green & brown
java moss
crypt lucens
crypt nevellii
tank size is about 50 Litres
Light is a single T8 tube 10 watts ( it's just a regular shop light) .So that's about 0.2 Watts per Litre (thank you Clonitza for suggesting this)
Planning on running it for 3.5 hrs a day for the first month. Then decide later whether i should increase the duration of the photoperiod.
Substrate : i decided to go with Aquabasis Plus at the bottom. I placed a mesh over this like Troi does in his tanks then capped it with some Seachem Onyx sand.
I really hope I can grow those Vals & mini java fern. I really love the canopy effect that the Vals produce. So nice & cosy. The last time I tried these plants I just fried them to bits. I don"t know if it was my lights because I tried to grow them with T5 tubes & without co2. But with my java ferns ,...i just killed them with my regular T8s
Please let me know what you think.