Hello all, it's been a while. With mass debt and many house-moves coupled with no longer receiving student loan handouts and having to face reality, I haven't been in the hobby for a few months. Thankfully, the one thing that didn't sell in my clear out sale was a 40x20x20 Clearseal, along with associated bits. Having moved into my new home, and with a bit too much time on my hands, I decided to get something set up with the remainder of hardscape and plants I still had.
With the sale of my beloved CO2 equipment, it had to be a low tech, but I was keen to maintain the carefully aquascaped look of high tech tanks. Remainders of redmoor root, mini landscape rock, and Aqua Essentials Baltic Rock to create an entangled root look I'm so very fond of. Planting was kept fairly simple to allow for minimum maintenance, apart from vacuuming the snail poop off the sand every couple of days.
Obligatory specs list:
400mmx200mmx200mm Clearseal cheapie tank
APS 400L/H HOB filter (99.9% sure it doesn't achieve this figure)
Redmoor root
Mini Landscape Rock
Baltic Rock
Tesco playsand
Cyptocoryne wentii 'Green'
Hygrophila corymbosa '53B'
Taxiphyllum barbieri
Hydrocotyl tripartita 'Japan'
Some kind of snails
(Soon to be) Some kind of shrimp
Manchester's finest tap water
Anyway, here's the story so far, told through the medium of crappy phone pics.
With the sale of my beloved CO2 equipment, it had to be a low tech, but I was keen to maintain the carefully aquascaped look of high tech tanks. Remainders of redmoor root, mini landscape rock, and Aqua Essentials Baltic Rock to create an entangled root look I'm so very fond of. Planting was kept fairly simple to allow for minimum maintenance, apart from vacuuming the snail poop off the sand every couple of days.
Obligatory specs list:
400mmx200mmx200mm Clearseal cheapie tank
APS 400L/H HOB filter (99.9% sure it doesn't achieve this figure)
Redmoor root
Mini Landscape Rock
Baltic Rock
Tesco playsand
Cyptocoryne wentii 'Green'
Hygrophila corymbosa '53B'
Taxiphyllum barbieri
Hydrocotyl tripartita 'Japan'
Some kind of snails
(Soon to be) Some kind of shrimp
Manchester's finest tap water
Anyway, here's the story so far, told through the medium of crappy phone pics.