viktorlantos
Aquascaper
I thought i open up another topic for this tank. This is another one from our gallery.
We call this iwagumi for easier understanding, but this is not a typical iwagumi.
Keymaker memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=1068 created this tank a few weeks ago.
This is a high tech monster which represent all bells and whistles with a mass ammount of spending
The tank parameters are:
120x45x45 Opti White
ADA Style Premium painted stand
2 x ADA Solar I - 150W NAMH Green
Eheim Professionel 3 - 2080 and 2180
Pressurized CO2 with AM1000 reactor
ADA glass pipes on both sides
For substrate system we used ADA Powersand Spec and Amazonia along with additives like Penac P and W, Bacter 100...
Ferts here are our Green Aqua Macro Micro (EI) ferts
Earlier we had 2 AM reactors but figured the one just do the job perfectly so the additional was removed to save the horsepower on the other eheim.
So the tank had everything for a great start, but this was a bumpy ride.
Keymaker build an extreme rocky scape with around 80kg of stones
well the thing is that he built this aquarium fully in his house including the rocks. it turned out we had to move the whole set to the gallery, but the rocks was glued so... this was not enough that the aquarium itself was heavy like an elephant, there was an additional 80 kg of stone in it. i would not give a cent to see this relocated in one piece, but somehow we did it....
The rock was there on a rubber carpet he just had to fill in all the soils and additives.
Plants were selected before. L. Brasiliensis and Isoetes Japonica.
So 50 pots of brasiliensis planted for a few hours...
i only prepped the plantlets for him, but i felt like a zombie at the end of the day with this much plant.
The tank looked really good already on the first day because of the mass of plants.
Unfortunatelly we had to start with full light for the opening hours and with the 300Watts lighting caused green water shortly. As we fully used the lights (and using that nowadays too) for 8 hours a day.
A few days UV cure helped with the green start.
looked awesome
however this was still the emmers leaf on the plants...
and we had to trim it. did i ever told you i hate this plant?
well this looks lovely but as all grass kind of plant this rot and gives a great challenge on start.
for us this trimming turned out to be a few weeks of fight with algae. as all the trimmed leaf got rotted and was not chance to remove all of it.
the solars gave too much light and warmed up the water. the 2 monster filter also warmed the water.
so we ended up with too much light warm water with full of algae. less circulation because of the fully packed eheims. this was the time we shut down one of the AM reactors.
many water changes, 40-50 amano shrimps, manual algae removal helped us to make it look nicer and had less and less algae. added in some floating plant too. this week was a breaktrough as the scape is looking nicer from day to day.
as the old leaves removed, and more healthy leaves are there, the algae has less chance.
this is how the tank looks now:
Still we had to lift up a bit the solars as the last step. The system will be ok from that time.
Brasiliensis is a hard plant. I had much much less trouble with parvula on the early rot, but this plant cause much more trouble. Still believe after the longer startup the scape will look good with this dense Brasiliensis field.
Will share more images later on the progress.
we appreciate your feedback and comments as always guys.
We call this iwagumi for easier understanding, but this is not a typical iwagumi.
Keymaker memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=1068 created this tank a few weeks ago.
This is a high tech monster which represent all bells and whistles with a mass ammount of spending
The tank parameters are:
120x45x45 Opti White
ADA Style Premium painted stand
2 x ADA Solar I - 150W NAMH Green
Eheim Professionel 3 - 2080 and 2180
Pressurized CO2 with AM1000 reactor
ADA glass pipes on both sides
For substrate system we used ADA Powersand Spec and Amazonia along with additives like Penac P and W, Bacter 100...
Ferts here are our Green Aqua Macro Micro (EI) ferts
Earlier we had 2 AM reactors but figured the one just do the job perfectly so the additional was removed to save the horsepower on the other eheim.
So the tank had everything for a great start, but this was a bumpy ride.
Keymaker build an extreme rocky scape with around 80kg of stones
well the thing is that he built this aquarium fully in his house including the rocks. it turned out we had to move the whole set to the gallery, but the rocks was glued so... this was not enough that the aquarium itself was heavy like an elephant, there was an additional 80 kg of stone in it. i would not give a cent to see this relocated in one piece, but somehow we did it....
The rock was there on a rubber carpet he just had to fill in all the soils and additives.
Plants were selected before. L. Brasiliensis and Isoetes Japonica.
So 50 pots of brasiliensis planted for a few hours...
i only prepped the plantlets for him, but i felt like a zombie at the end of the day with this much plant.
The tank looked really good already on the first day because of the mass of plants.
Unfortunatelly we had to start with full light for the opening hours and with the 300Watts lighting caused green water shortly. As we fully used the lights (and using that nowadays too) for 8 hours a day.
A few days UV cure helped with the green start.
looked awesome
however this was still the emmers leaf on the plants...
and we had to trim it. did i ever told you i hate this plant?
well this looks lovely but as all grass kind of plant this rot and gives a great challenge on start.
for us this trimming turned out to be a few weeks of fight with algae. as all the trimmed leaf got rotted and was not chance to remove all of it.
the solars gave too much light and warmed up the water. the 2 monster filter also warmed the water.
so we ended up with too much light warm water with full of algae. less circulation because of the fully packed eheims. this was the time we shut down one of the AM reactors.
many water changes, 40-50 amano shrimps, manual algae removal helped us to make it look nicer and had less and less algae. added in some floating plant too. this week was a breaktrough as the scape is looking nicer from day to day.
as the old leaves removed, and more healthy leaves are there, the algae has less chance.
this is how the tank looks now:
Still we had to lift up a bit the solars as the last step. The system will be ok from that time.
Brasiliensis is a hard plant. I had much much less trouble with parvula on the early rot, but this plant cause much more trouble. Still believe after the longer startup the scape will look good with this dense Brasiliensis field.
Will share more images later on the progress.
we appreciate your feedback and comments as always guys.