jarcher1390
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Hey all.
So i've given one of my tanks its first title. I'm not sure how it will end but theres a little story of how this tank has begun hence the title. pics will come after the little story
The story
I've just finished messing about with my arcadia arc and it did not end the way I wanted it to, so I'm trying again with another tank.
I was back home at my dads and had to sell my 6ft tank as he is selling the old family home we have had for last 12 years. As I was going through all my old fish keeping stuff and binning most of it, I came across my very first tropical fish tank. It is a bog standard glass 17 litre fish tank, in which I made all the mistakes in the book . I was 12, naive and I had too complexs ideas and not enough knowledge so it never reached anything like I wanted it to. I decided this would be my next tank. Why not it cost me nothing.
12 years on I would like to prove to my 12 year old self that mistakes are some time necessary in order to better oneself in yourself and in this case being an aquarist.
This is going to be a sentimental (get the title now ???)tank for me to do as its saying good bye to the last 12 years in our old family home and all my fish keeping equipment and using 12 years experience of being a aquarist to do my 12 year old self proud.
The tank
Tank: 17litre plain glass tank.
Lights: TMC Mini LED 400
Substrate: Mixed JBL Aquabasis and manado (from my arcadia arc)
Hardscape: Redmoor
Flora: Didiplis diandra: Anubias nana Bonzai: Glossostigma elatinoides: Cryptocoryne beckettii and Cryptocoryne legroi
I should note intended to submerge the tank and grow like I have done before, however the person i lent my CO2 bottle to, returned it without CO2 and I didn't realise when i was setting up the tank. So i begrudgingly decided to do DSM. I have also never grown any of the plant species listed nor used redmoor or any wood for that matter. So its has actually turned into an little experiment and like my 12 year old self ill probably make mistakes.
Unfortunately i have not got a heat mat or a sprayer for this DSM so thats my first mistakes. I'm hoping it will work anyways.
The tank is 1 one week into its DSM and the Glossostigma elatinoides is the only thing that seems to be growing so far.
Pictures
Untitled by Jonathan. A. Archer, on Flickr
Untitled by Jonathan. A. Archer, on Flickr
Untitled by Jonathan. A. Archer, on Flickr
Some new growth on the Glossostigma elatinoides
Anubias is on wood for photographs its roots are submerged in the substrate normally
Regards Jonny
So i've given one of my tanks its first title. I'm not sure how it will end but theres a little story of how this tank has begun hence the title. pics will come after the little story
The story
I've just finished messing about with my arcadia arc and it did not end the way I wanted it to, so I'm trying again with another tank.
I was back home at my dads and had to sell my 6ft tank as he is selling the old family home we have had for last 12 years. As I was going through all my old fish keeping stuff and binning most of it, I came across my very first tropical fish tank. It is a bog standard glass 17 litre fish tank, in which I made all the mistakes in the book . I was 12, naive and I had too complexs ideas and not enough knowledge so it never reached anything like I wanted it to. I decided this would be my next tank. Why not it cost me nothing.
12 years on I would like to prove to my 12 year old self that mistakes are some time necessary in order to better oneself in yourself and in this case being an aquarist.
This is going to be a sentimental (get the title now ???)tank for me to do as its saying good bye to the last 12 years in our old family home and all my fish keeping equipment and using 12 years experience of being a aquarist to do my 12 year old self proud.
The tank
Tank: 17litre plain glass tank.
Lights: TMC Mini LED 400
Substrate: Mixed JBL Aquabasis and manado (from my arcadia arc)
Hardscape: Redmoor
Flora: Didiplis diandra: Anubias nana Bonzai: Glossostigma elatinoides: Cryptocoryne beckettii and Cryptocoryne legroi
I should note intended to submerge the tank and grow like I have done before, however the person i lent my CO2 bottle to, returned it without CO2 and I didn't realise when i was setting up the tank. So i begrudgingly decided to do DSM. I have also never grown any of the plant species listed nor used redmoor or any wood for that matter. So its has actually turned into an little experiment and like my 12 year old self ill probably make mistakes.
Unfortunately i have not got a heat mat or a sprayer for this DSM so thats my first mistakes. I'm hoping it will work anyways.
The tank is 1 one week into its DSM and the Glossostigma elatinoides is the only thing that seems to be growing so far.
Pictures
Untitled by Jonathan. A. Archer, on Flickr
Untitled by Jonathan. A. Archer, on Flickr
Untitled by Jonathan. A. Archer, on Flickr
Some new growth on the Glossostigma elatinoides
Anubias is on wood for photographs its roots are submerged in the substrate normally
Regards Jonny