Wabi kusa - Spontaneous setup - unexpected visit - Ladybug

[Antoni]

HI guys,

a week ago, I have started this new wabi kusa project. Had a small tank laying around (dirt cheap tank from Pets at home) used to use it as a storage for excessive plants- kind of a overflow tank 🙂 but got bored to keep it half empty with some random sad looking plants in....so I have decided to give it a bit of a beauty transformation...

This is what I came up with:



A view from above, just after the planting:



A mixture of different plants, all emmersed forms.



and I wanted to use some floating plant.....got the azolla caroliniana from Tropica - lovely little plant



A frontal view:

 

[Robbie X]

I like, Will be interesting to see it mature

 

[Antoni]

Thanks mate!

I hope I will get them all blooming 🙂

 

[allan angus]

nice start as robbie said will be nice to see it mature

 

[Greenfinger2]

Hi Antoni, Looking good Looking forward to seeing this one in a few weeks 😉

 

[Alexander Belchenko]

Nice setup. Does the tank have a cover?

 

[Antoni]

Thanks guys!

Nice setup. Does the tank have a cover?

Yes it has a cover at the moment only to keep the evaporation low. I think the plants will be ok even if I remove it, as they have been grown emmersed.

 

[Antoni]

Some pics from today:







Waiting for this one to flower soon 🙂






And the last one! I promise 🙂!

 

[Robbie X]

Great pics, keep em coming

 

[Alexander Belchenko]

Nice shots!

 

[tim]

This is lovely mate, Im hoping to get some wabi's started on the windowsill soon now spring is here and a koke dama or two, watching with interest.

 

[Antoni]

Thank you very much guys! 🙂

Tim, give it a go mate! Now is the time! Kokedama are great too...which reminds me to get some pictures of them as well 🙂

I want to get a fish or shrimps or snails for this wabi....or a small tree frog, but can't decide . It is only about 2 l of water, so can't have much inside... any ideas?

 

[Robbie X]

You know what, I have a circular glass tank 30cm across and 14cm high. It used to be used as a pond life teaching aid, but has been in my junk room for years. It looks very much like the second pic in your signature. This would be perfect for my first Wabi Kusa! Time to get reading up on this subject me thinks......... 🙄

 

[Edvet]

I want to get a fish or shrimps or snails for this wabi....

Each time i see a picture of this setup i wonder what live animal to keep in it, but without waterchanges it would be tough i guess. A few hardy shrimps would be best i guess.

 

[Antoni]

You know what, I have a circular glass tank 30cm across and 14cm high. It used to be used as a pond life teaching aid, but has been in my junk room for years. It looks very much like the second pic in your signature. This would be perfect for my first Wabi Kusa! Time to get reading up on this subject me thinks......... 🙄

Those bowls are fun! Mine is acrylic and is scratched and not very presentable at the moment, otherwise I would have made one again 🙂 There are some very nice candle holders 35-40 cm in diameter in John Lewis, which I am tempted in buying.... but we shell see 🙂

Each time i see a picture of this setup i wonder what live animal to keep in it, but without waterchanges it would be tough i guess. A few hardy shrimps would be best i guess.

Yep, the water changes are must, I am doing a 100% WC every week now, but if I get some creatures might start doing it 2-3 times a week... Shrimps are a possibility definitely, but which one? Maybe RCS ..

 

[Edvet]

http://www.ukaps.org/forum/threads/shrimp-id.32350/ or
these http://www.ukaps.org/forum/threads/mini-amano-shrimp.31774/.
Not spectecular but hardy

 

[Antoni]

That is very interesting! Thank you Edvet! If I can find the mini japonica, I would give them a go! Or will end up with some cherries... or a frog 🙂

 

[Robbie X]

Very very cool, I'm going to give this a go 😉

 

[Antoni]

Hi guys,

It's been awhile since my last update, so here are some more pictures from today. Everything is growing ok, not very fast, but that is fine with me, as I wanted it to be a low maintenance project. The light is only 11W so not strong at all. Started adding some fertilisers from today - a small squirt of Tropica Specialised diluted in some water. I poured it over the substrate during water change.

Here some shots:

 

[Robbie X]

Going great guns! Its beautiful. What is the delicate floating fern like plant?