krazypara3165
Member
This may be a long one..........
As some of you are aware i have been a member on here for over a year now and i have learnt a lot along the way. ive had a fluval edge, a custom 10l, and a 4ft monster. i'll ignore the smaller tanks for now, so heres how it started!
It started with an all pond solutions 4ft tank. However some of you may of seen the old post about the earlier 4ft one i bought off ebay when the brace bar snapped during testing...... anyway i picked up some wood from my lfs and some black sand and this was the layout i decided on.
after talking to a member on here i managed to get hold of a large quantity of south american plants and here is how it looked after planting.
after planting i picked up a 2kg c02 canister and regulator and an E.I kit and the plants really got going!!!!! as you may of noticed i also aquired some young discus.
as you can see the growth was phenominal! however after algae reared its ugly head I struggled getting the correct balance with c02 and lighting. as such the plants struggled and this is how it ended up as of last month after ditching the co2 and reducing the lighting intensity by 50%.
as my discus are now thriving and two are now in a breeding setup i want to do a large re-scape as i will be receiving 4 wild green discus at the end of the month.
I want to remove the black sand and change it to play sand as the colours on the discus in the breeding tank have really come out after moving them to a brighter enviroment! i also want a bit of a discus biotape theme going on with lots of root style wood coming down from the top to the bottom of the aquarium. unfortunatly i cant seem to get hold of any good pieces of wood. so ive ripped out the wood currently in my tank which had a layer of BBA algae and left it overnight in the bath after pouring 2L of 'easycarbo in to nuke it and im contemplating putting it upright in the aquarium and growing some emmersed plants on it so that they brake the waterline what do you think? i will also be popping to argos for the sand on sunday. meanwhile i will be putting all the fish into a qt tankwhilst i remove the old substrate as i KNOW there is anerobic pockets.....
ignore the plants.... this is what i am thinking with the wood....
sorry for the poor quality.
Anyway nothing here is set in stone and all opinions are welcome. i know i want a 'biotape style' but i want a few plants in there just to make it interesting. the hard part will be picking the plants and the harder part will be placing them! ill be using some of the ones that are in the tank already as i love how the vallis is getting on.
once again i would like to thank everyone here as you really have made this hobby ten times more enjoyable (and less stressful!)
Craig.
As some of you are aware i have been a member on here for over a year now and i have learnt a lot along the way. ive had a fluval edge, a custom 10l, and a 4ft monster. i'll ignore the smaller tanks for now, so heres how it started!
It started with an all pond solutions 4ft tank. However some of you may of seen the old post about the earlier 4ft one i bought off ebay when the brace bar snapped during testing...... anyway i picked up some wood from my lfs and some black sand and this was the layout i decided on.
after talking to a member on here i managed to get hold of a large quantity of south american plants and here is how it looked after planting.
after planting i picked up a 2kg c02 canister and regulator and an E.I kit and the plants really got going!!!!! as you may of noticed i also aquired some young discus.
as you can see the growth was phenominal! however after algae reared its ugly head I struggled getting the correct balance with c02 and lighting. as such the plants struggled and this is how it ended up as of last month after ditching the co2 and reducing the lighting intensity by 50%.
as my discus are now thriving and two are now in a breeding setup i want to do a large re-scape as i will be receiving 4 wild green discus at the end of the month.
I want to remove the black sand and change it to play sand as the colours on the discus in the breeding tank have really come out after moving them to a brighter enviroment! i also want a bit of a discus biotape theme going on with lots of root style wood coming down from the top to the bottom of the aquarium. unfortunatly i cant seem to get hold of any good pieces of wood. so ive ripped out the wood currently in my tank which had a layer of BBA algae and left it overnight in the bath after pouring 2L of 'easycarbo in to nuke it and im contemplating putting it upright in the aquarium and growing some emmersed plants on it so that they brake the waterline what do you think? i will also be popping to argos for the sand on sunday. meanwhile i will be putting all the fish into a qt tankwhilst i remove the old substrate as i KNOW there is anerobic pockets.....
ignore the plants.... this is what i am thinking with the wood....
sorry for the poor quality.
Anyway nothing here is set in stone and all opinions are welcome. i know i want a 'biotape style' but i want a few plants in there just to make it interesting. the hard part will be picking the plants and the harder part will be placing them! ill be using some of the ones that are in the tank already as i love how the vallis is getting on.
once again i would like to thank everyone here as you really have made this hobby ten times more enjoyable (and less stressful!)
Craig.
