Andrew Butler
Member
With so much going on in the world, at home and a whole host of other things holding me back for a while now I've opted to move forward with my 'STOPGAP' so I can hopefully enjoy looking at an aquarium filled with something interesting.
I've been completely and utterly against the idea of ADA aquariums, Oase filters, glass inlets/outlets, aquasoil and the likes but seems the easiest option for me now so it's what I'm going with, I just hope it's not something I later live to regret.
Aquarium: ADA 45P
Filtration: Oase Filtosmart thermo 100
Inlet/Outlet: Cal Aqua Labs X2s/G2
Lighting: ADA Aquasky G 451 + mirror unit
CO2: inline
Substrate: Tropica Aquarium Soil Powder
Hardscape: Riverwood and possibility of adding some small pieces of Frodo stone
I've a provisional plant list that I plan to work with, I think the main ethos is to have a large carpet and a 'big bushy bit' around the back and sides of the wood.
The main carpet will be made up of micranthemum monte carlo with a few different plants dotted around here and there.
My 'big bushy bit' I hope to make up out of rotala rotundifolia 'green' and rotala vietnam h'ra.
To the main piece of wood I will be adding some Microsorum pteropus Trident along with a few Buces and Crypts.
Aside from that other plants on the list are rotala bonsai, Staurogyne Repens, Alternanthera Reineckii ''Mini', hydrocotyle verticillata, Salvinia Auriculata, Cryptocoryne Costata, cryptocoryne nevellii, cryptocoryne petchii, cryptocoryne wendtii green and cryptocoryne lucens - I know it's only a 45P so will see how it plants out.
Open to hearing constructive input from people along the way.
Here's how things are looking before any plants are added, I'm thinking over whether I think this piece of wood is enough with plants alone, whether to add any more wood or a few simple stones enough will be enough. It's not here to win any awards, just give me something to enjoy looking at and with any luck not cause me too many problems.
I've been completely and utterly against the idea of ADA aquariums, Oase filters, glass inlets/outlets, aquasoil and the likes but seems the easiest option for me now so it's what I'm going with, I just hope it's not something I later live to regret.
Aquarium: ADA 45P
Filtration: Oase Filtosmart thermo 100
Inlet/Outlet: Cal Aqua Labs X2s/G2
Lighting: ADA Aquasky G 451 + mirror unit
CO2: inline
Substrate: Tropica Aquarium Soil Powder
Hardscape: Riverwood and possibility of adding some small pieces of Frodo stone
I've a provisional plant list that I plan to work with, I think the main ethos is to have a large carpet and a 'big bushy bit' around the back and sides of the wood.
The main carpet will be made up of micranthemum monte carlo with a few different plants dotted around here and there.
My 'big bushy bit' I hope to make up out of rotala rotundifolia 'green' and rotala vietnam h'ra.
To the main piece of wood I will be adding some Microsorum pteropus Trident along with a few Buces and Crypts.
Aside from that other plants on the list are rotala bonsai, Staurogyne Repens, Alternanthera Reineckii ''Mini', hydrocotyle verticillata, Salvinia Auriculata, Cryptocoryne Costata, cryptocoryne nevellii, cryptocoryne petchii, cryptocoryne wendtii green and cryptocoryne lucens - I know it's only a 45P so will see how it plants out.
Open to hearing constructive input from people along the way.
Here's how things are looking before any plants are added, I'm thinking over whether I think this piece of wood is enough with plants alone, whether to add any more wood or a few simple stones enough will be enough. It's not here to win any awards, just give me something to enjoy looking at and with any luck not cause me too many problems.