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Scape no more!

brancaman

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Hello, this is my new aquarium, as usual i have a story to tell :)
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Before the beggining of last winter me and some good friends went on a hardscape search near the sea, and i was lucky enough to see one big wood portion!
Problem, it wouldn't fit any of my aquariums :p

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I did try to persuade my wife to make of our bathtub a new aquarium without sucess! She insisted that we needed to take baths everyday so i reluctant take the wood to the balcony until my friends gave me a new one for christmas big enough to fit inside the wood.

Sooo, here is the pics of it, hope you enjoy.

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Aquarium : 90x45x45= 180 lts raw. 8mm glass

Cabinet : iron structure

Lighting: leds "miravent"
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4x6w - 2000 lumens

Filter: 1x Eheim 2213 (one plus later on), small inside filter to increase water movement.

Heater: Jager 200w

CO2 pressurized with 2 ways, aquagrow 500 reactor and ceramic diffuser
Ferts: Estimated Index

Hardscape: - Rocks and wood
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e 15 L Aquasoil Amazonia e 5 L of pumice

Fauna: 25 + Tanichthys Albonubes, ancistros and others...
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Flora: Rotala “Colorata”, Bolbitis heuledotti, Microsorum pteropus, Hygrophila Pinnatifida, Heteranthera Zosterifolia, Ludwigia palustris sp super red, Cryptocoryne wendtii brown, Alternanthera reineckii 'Mini', Staurogyne repens, Cryptocoyne parva, Cryptocoryne Petchii “Pink”, Echinodorus tenelus green, Micranthemum "Monte Carlo", Staurogyne 'Porto Velho', Marsileia hirsuta, Monosolenium tenerum, Riccardia chamedryfolia.

Water parameters:
pH = 6
KH = 2
GH = 3
Amónia (NH3) = 0
Nitritos (NO2) = N/A
Nitratos (NO3) = N/A
Temperature = 24º
 
I like your B&W style. Looks interesting.
B&W was my first passion, miss too much those days when i developed my pictures in my durst :(

But from now on it will be the color of the plants who rules.
The first one i took at 18mm and the second one at 44mm. See the differences ;)

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Another short update of how things are going here
ancistrus are slowly growing for my relief :p
placed weeping moss in branches.
everythinge else is quietly progressing without major stresses.
Nor could it be other way. The aquarium hobby should be both relaxing and pleasure.
Took some pictures, hope you like them.
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With this photo I ran to the IIAC and eaplc and was ranked 350 th / 815 and 111th/213. Then realize that is neither good nor bad! :bored:
Now say it was time to break up and go to another but there are other priorities at the moment, so I will try to maintain and improve the level of flora, I think it is still far from perfect! Any suggestions will be very apreciated.
Thanks to Hugo Santos for the precious help in the photo shoot.
 
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Stunning brancaman, really appealing aquascape. I bet this looks even better in the flesh than on the photos :clap:
Cheerio,
Ady
 
Very nice scape, and ranking is good. On the last photo it's probably only 3 months old? I bet it will look really great in 6-12 months, there is still room for plants to grow and fill in. Keep going!
 
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