Bored tonight so I re-scaped my Tropica Aquacube after it had had a recent stripdown and clean
Here's the stats
Substrate: Silica sand (foreground) / Clay balls / ADA Aquasoil Amazonia fine
Plants: Eleocharis Acicularis, maybe some mosses later, HC
Lighting: Supplied Tropica light upgraded to 20w halogen
Tank: Tropica Aquacube 20x20x20cm - 8l
CO2: Pressurised Sera CO2 reg and bottle with Dazs Chisel Diffuser, Boyu bubble counter
Filter: Azoo Mignon 60 HOB
Hardscape: Red Lava Rock
I pinched some silica sand that my dad uses for his bricked drive. not sure if tis too orange yet but time will tell.
I mounded some clay balls from TGM for bulk in the background.
piled the rocks so they fit together
added sand at the front for detail with some graded lava
Added some tourmaline, penac p, penac w and tropica root tabs in the back.
added the AS fine
then planted.
There is a more recent view since I filled the tank tonight as ive added some HC and the smaller hydrocotyl in the gap of the rocks. this may or may not stay in depending on if it looks crap or not.
Ill add some more pictures of it filled once the filter clears the tank up and ive removed some of the AS that strayed into the sand on planting.
clay balls in
lava rock piled plus sand
AS piled in the back which you can just see on the right
planted up
Here's the stats
Substrate: Silica sand (foreground) / Clay balls / ADA Aquasoil Amazonia fine
Plants: Eleocharis Acicularis, maybe some mosses later, HC
Lighting: Supplied Tropica light upgraded to 20w halogen
Tank: Tropica Aquacube 20x20x20cm - 8l
CO2: Pressurised Sera CO2 reg and bottle with Dazs Chisel Diffuser, Boyu bubble counter
Filter: Azoo Mignon 60 HOB
Hardscape: Red Lava Rock
I pinched some silica sand that my dad uses for his bricked drive. not sure if tis too orange yet but time will tell.
I mounded some clay balls from TGM for bulk in the background.
piled the rocks so they fit together
added sand at the front for detail with some graded lava
Added some tourmaline, penac p, penac w and tropica root tabs in the back.
added the AS fine
then planted.
There is a more recent view since I filled the tank tonight as ive added some HC and the smaller hydrocotyl in the gap of the rocks. this may or may not stay in depending on if it looks crap or not.
Ill add some more pictures of it filled once the filter clears the tank up and ive removed some of the AS that strayed into the sand on planting.
clay balls in
lava rock piled plus sand
AS piled in the back which you can just see on the right
planted up