Second big scape 1 year in

[Oetloet]

Hello everyone my name is Bart and i am from the Netherlands.
I started this hobby about 1 year ago, tried different things with a 30L nano but that did not worked out.
Soon after i bought a nice used 60P set with injected CO2 ADA aquasky etc. I tried a scape and it worked out decent.
Despite i already wanted to make changes very soon en the plant choice was not very good it became a little messy and did not looked natural the way i intented.
Also i was struggling with Staghorn algea wich i could not get 100% under control.. I think the cause was my dosing regime.

Last weekend i cleaned everything up and started from scratch, the hardscape is now 90% done and i am quite happy about it. In the foreground will come ada colorado sand with details of Rio xingu gravel.

The plants i have ordered are the following:

Bolbitus heudelotii
Microsorum windelov
Microsorum trident
Crypto crispatula
Elocharis acucularis mini
Hygrophilia siamensis 53b
Ludwigia palustris
Anubias petite
Anubias bonais
Buce sp red
Hygrophilia pinnatifida

And some left over from my old scape

Crypto wendtii
Crypto Parva
Crypto undulatus red

Im measuring with the 1-ph drop method for CO2, and planning to dose TropicaSPN 2 pumps per day and probbly adding some phospate, in my old scape i had problems with greenspot algae.
The planting will start thursday or friday and i will try to keep some updates here.

 

[noodlesuk]

Welcome! Amazing hardscape, looks like the wood is crawling out of the rocks, very impressive.

 

[Oetloet]

Welcome! Amazing hardscape, looks like the wood is crawling out of the rocks, very impressive.

Thanks Noodle, i did my best! Used a lot of glue and toilet paper to attach everything together

 

[mohamed elsorahy]

nice scape

 

[sparkyweasel]

Welcome!

 

[Wolf6]

Welcome, nice to see a landgenoot here

 

[Oetloet]

Evening everyone,

Today finished the hardscape and did the planting! I was very excited for this moment and i am pretty happy how it turned out!!
The plants i had ordered matched perfect not a single leftover and planted pretty dense.

Water is already starting to clear up, filter was already cycled and added 30liters of water from my qaurantine tank where i put my fish in for the last 4 days.
Hoping to get things going without major problems now!!

 

[Oetloet]

Did a visit to one of the local fish shops today, bought 10 sakura red shrimps and 1 apistogramma cacatuoides small male. There were no more female's in stock i have ordered 2 wich will come in a few weeks.
He is still a little shy hiding between the plants, some times coming to the front of the scape to explore. Looking forward to see him grow up and cruising around the tank 😃

Took some photo's with my phone trying to expirement. The amano worked out quiete good and sharp same for the oto's.

Tommorow time for the first big water change.