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Evening friends, As i came across to this post... i swear i was not surprised. We are all in this hobbie for "quite a while" to believe in some tanks we´ve been seeing. I never agree with the contests rules as they leave in my point of view "windows" to this kind of matter. Many pictures...

;):) Precisely!

No of course not.. in the meantime i will put some Valisnerias and other ordinary ones. To plant is easy.. in the wood it will be mosses so i´ll be using Cotton or and glue. The others is a regular planting. That is something that i have to look for indeed.. as time goes by i´ll be...

Good afternoon, I believe i reached my goal. Now the planting will do the rest. I haven´t studdy yet wich plants i´ll be using on this set. Starting to fill with the water right now. In a month or so, i may be able to take out those sticks that are fixing the wood to the ground by pressure...

I believe this was not the answer people was expecting [emoji16]. Close to zero eh eh This will make our fellow Friends wondering [emoji111] But that is the goal. Not 20 ppm of this and that... Until people start to realize this aproaches it will take a lot and also to UNmistify "EI"...

Hello Tiago, I haven´t decide yet the ground layout.. if only composed with sand and plants or also use the stones. many doubts for now. I´m going to work and see wath i can come up with ;) Big Hug (Abração!!)

Hi Silviu, No not yet. I really don´t know allready wich plants to insert. The trees will be mosses of course. But for the ground i´m stucked. I have had watched many many layouts like this but no fixed ideas yet. Best regards

Good morning Silviu, I will take under consideration your proposal. Even here in Portugal my friends are telling me to maintain that background. So i will do so. A big hug dear friend!

Hello Silviu! Many many thanks dear friend. You got the picture! Exactly what i have in mind. Just the backgorund is a doubt.. i don´t know. But that is something easy to change. No doubts about it! That is one thing to do. A big hug.

Good Morning, After my "AQUA-SUSSOA tank, https://www.ukaps.org/forum/threads/aquarium-sussoa.42794/ i decided to take a different course on this hobby. I course in wich i dont´t feel so comfortable cause I've wood tanks in the past and I know what I'm going to get in to. This time I want to...

After a completely change plants disposal (just for not shut down the tank meanwhile i start a new one) and a major trim now Without any FERTS and CO2 since last 3 rd September..a month now. Photos taken right now.. This makes us think a lot.. i'm pushing this tank to whatever it wants to...

Hi Paraguay good morning, I´m allready working on it :thumbup: This weekend i collect about 30 KG of stones from our portuguese rivers and see coast. Let´s see what i can do with this. My "test bench" is allready set. Now it´s all about inspiration.. exploit those days when we have the...

Many Many Thanks Cor and Dave. It was very pleasant have you guys in companion. Hi Average First let me thank you to on your kindest words and simpathy along this journey. I do understand you.. and believe me it´s kind of hard to bring down this after all effort done. But the need of...

Hi Tiago, Contests is not my goal.. specially IAPLC. Very political IMO. But is an idea ;) I´m allready working on it searching Wood and Stones in my area. Since "Cova do Vapor" till "Fonte da Telha" i have a long walk to do and search. I don´t intend to use Red Moor or other woods allready...

Good evening brothers in arms. Hereby i salut you for all your support and guideness. Tank being dismantle... What a journey.. A true "Nature Aquarium" follows. So the "Sussoa" gives you a big embrace. The name is a conjunction from my girlfriends name and mine. "SUSete / SOAres". To her...

Hello Tiago, Exactly what we did. The plant was trimed and now it´s up to her show her grace ;) If she wants to of course :) Mother nature has it´s own ways.. Big Hug

Morning, Yes of course we´ve tested ;) The salts were bought in "Aquasabi". We took 10 ML from the solution and tested and yes the JBL reagent turns almost black. So we did for NO3 turning into a red dark. So the salts were ok. So.. at that time we couldn´t figure out how this happens... The...

Edwink good morning dear friend, How about some knews? What a phenomenal tank you have there! Maybe one day i will acomplished a dream like this.. Big Hug

Evening Nuno, All that you said is true and it´s part of our own maturation in this hobby. And i also knew it before cause i´m a costumer of "Casa dos Discos" ;) And cause of knowing it all that´s why i kind of mention the light parameter. You know i also have may tank receiving daylight (not...

Good night Nuno, Regard that at certain point those 10 hours will be way to much. As soon you notice that in the extend of the photoperiod plants are CLOSED is when you have to reduce photoperiod time or you'll start to have issues. Cause they no longer are doing photosinthesys. For now in...

Evening, For my own experience it isn´t worth. I used to have also those kind of values in my other adress and I also bought a RO system and tried 50/50, and 70/30 and 60/40 and haven´t notice any improvement on plants. A lot of work but mainly and also sad a large waste of water and money for...

Good news then [emoji16][emoji6] Enviado do meu SM-A510F através de Tapatalk

Great news [emoji16]. I'll be waiting. Cool!! Enviado do meu SM-A510F através de Tapatalk

Hello Tim, Excelent journal and learning. This "Stau" is a tricky one plant ;) Can´t wait to see this fully running! Really Good stuff Tim. I do love your work. Best regards.

Good afternoon, Glad to hear that all is on the track right now! Good work and very good looking tank indeed. Big hug

This is magic!! My kind of tank that´s for sure!! :clap::clap: I really do know all effort and dedication you input to this to achieve this level. And that is remarcable. Many many congratulations! Big hug

Hello good afternoon, Any news on your lovely tank? As you did changes how it is going? Hope he best and looking forward. Best wishes

Good afternoon Alex, Well i did have an impact just for looking to the colour of that sand/substrate. ;) But i say this in a positive way cause i do love it! I really matches with the layout. And it´s different. I like people bringing new and breaking established ideas. And yes you have...

Hi again Doyle, What a lovely escape you got there. I love the way you set the wood and the plants choice. Also those tiny rocks are a beautiful detail. And you didn´t done something in this kind of layout that most do.. the use of Tripartida. So congratulations for what you achieved. Big hug

Hi Doyle, Simple, beautiful and effective. Hope to see the evolution. Big hug.

Hello dear friend! What about this tank? Any news? Looking forward to see what you acomplished. This inittial layout was pretty good. I like it a lot and with a lot of potential. Give us some news. Big Hug Rebel.

Evening Nelson, Each time i look at your tank, i´m transported to my younger days when i spent days after days in the summer camping in a river here in Portugal. Each time i look at the last picture it seems i´m being in the exact moment when i dive into the river.. and swim down there...

Hello Pietert, I really aprecciate what you´re doing up here. This really shows how far you love this hobby. Looking forward for more news. Best compliments.

Lovely tank! I really like the two different parts (left and right) and the transition you acomplished. Really beautiful. Big hug dear friend.

Hi dear friend, Any news of a tank? I Was liking a lot this ideas. Hope to hear from you. Big hug

Hi Nigel, Great effort and study. Looking anxious to see what´s coming and develop. Good stuff my friend. Best regards

Evening, I bought a model E and i can confirm that for more than 30 cm width one Unit is not enough so a second unit will be required. Although i also must say that in my experience even with one only Unit for a minor width it is advisable to fit or assembly those considered hard plants ( red...

With the "Osmocote" i have this values permanently. No3 10 Fe 0.2 Po4 0.1 Ph 6.7 Kh 3 K more than 20 Gh 3 Enviado do meu SM-A510F através de Tapatalk

I also make my water change without stoping filter or switching of any equipment. I point the water in to flow in the direction of the inflow and the extraction where the filter outflow point out. Enviado do meu SM-A510F através de Tapatalk

Good afternoon One more thing about this tank. As you may not notice i have a Twinstar E900 wich is 90 cm long. Well my tank is 100 cm. So i did an acrílic extensions for both sides of the light and attached to it. The result: Enviado do meu SM-A510F através de Tapatalk

Evening mate, Looks promissing. Best wishes. Enviado do meu SM-A510F através de Tapatalk

And if someone wants to extend a 90 cm twinstar at 100 cm just do as i did. I cut some acrílic to acomplished the 100 cm and atashed to it. Simple and functional. Pictures below Enviado do meu SM-A510F através de Tapatalk

Good morning Cor Inittially i insert 50 gr. But has time goes by i insert more. To add the grains i froze them as we do for ice. This way i could insert them right to the bottom crossing the substrate. Grab a ice cube and with my hands put it Deeply down. Than the ice will defroze and release...

Good night friends, First of all a Set Up update. Assembling date: 01 September de 2016 (Completed a year now) Aquarium: 100x40x40 8mm Glass from "Vidromoldura-Centividro" Lights: Twinstar 900 E 09 Hours Photoperiod: From 14.00 PM till 22.59 PM. Filter: EHEIM Professionel 4+600 Aqua...

Nor even the consumption.. ;)

Good morning, A tank running since first June 2016. Specs: 100 real liter tank CO2 Injection 20 to 25 PPM Fertilization by Tropica Specialised 10 to 12 Pushs a day. Water change 30% twice a week Highly Planted with Tropica Pots 1/2 grow of 15 different species. Led Lighting 4000 lumens...

Evening, So does anyone knows waht hapenned to CO2art? I used to have a great impression of them but this kind of attitude doesn´t fit to well.. Best regards,

Note: After the plant recover took out that osram and start with those 39w as i said with Twice WC. Enviado do meu SM-A510F através de Tapatalk

But those green on the rocks are something to worry. You may use 3 times 39w but in a upper stand. And also do a WC Twice a week of 30 to 40% instead of a 50%.weekly. And you'll see results. Enviado do meu SM-A510F através de Tapatalk

Good morning friend. You shouldn't have changed your setup cause it was running nicely in balance. I recommend to put it back again. Cut the plant a little more. And do this: Buy a Osram led focus of 6500 k and 500 lumens and light it on the plant for 6 hours along with the 39w you have to...

Thanks Nigel. It's been a Journey of Learning. [emoji111] Enviado do meu SM-A510F através de Tapatalk

As Bryan Adams quote in his álbum.. "so far so good" !! Enviado do meu SM-A510F através de Tapatalk

Sorry for one thing. Put the difuser inside a cup in it´s normal position and not upside down.. where do i have my head when i wrote that??? Oh my god..

Latest news in portuguese language. [emoji111] Very sorry but i believe you'll find it reasonable. As someone saíd.. a image is worth a thousand words. Hope you enjoy [emoji111] Enviado do meu SM-A510F através de Tapatalk

This is my tank doing "PEARLING". Sorry for the shorter vídeo but when i started to film the lighting in my City went off... only in Portugal [emoji111]. Enviado do meu SM-A510F através de Tapatalk

By the way.. Do you remember i did have a Stone with BBA? Well i simple throw the Stone away. But 15 Days ago when i trim my Wallichi i notice that she have some BBA in the bottom. In that Day i thought.. "let it be.. " Next time i trim i do it Hard and cut it also.. Now regard the next...

A few days ago.. Enviado do meu SM-A510F através de Tapatalk

Update of the tank. Now with 10 hour photo period. Enviado do meu SM-A510F através de Tapatalk

Good evening, Yes i´m still using it and my ADA Beetle is on archive ;) To clean this difuser is quite simple. Fill a glass with water and bleach 50/50 and put on the glass upside down and RUNNING! Do not turn off the Co2. Just put in the glass running about 10 minutes. After and still...

Hello, I believe now you explain it all very well. Many thanks Enviado do meu SM-A510F através de Tapatalk

Good Morning, No one can state that those "right proportions" are suitable for any tank. Sorry i do not agree with that statement that it comes calibrated with the right proportions. Just reading as it is it writen it seems that you find a miraculous light formula to any tank. And the newbies...

Some aspects and changes of this aquarium at the moment: The "BBA" is still present on some rocks.. beauty and full of life enjoying the Spa..Doesn´t spread to plants but still there. The initial treatment with H2O2 made her kickback a little in the initial days but after it kept at the same...

Joking with my cell Phone... Enviado do meu SM-A510F através de Tapatalk

And even not all of them certified are truly accurate. For instance i try the Cal Aqua and it was not in perfect conditions. Even i bought it twice and both bottles were not cool. Both Measured in the City hall water lab of my home town.

Sorry but this is not accurate. T. Barr has already unmistify this way of measuring CO2 PPM. The link is somewhere in this forum and of course in T. Barr report. And if you look at the charts about this PH/Kh= Co2 you´ll find the y are very wrong.. The best way of measuring Co2 is with a...

Another fellow in arms with Ei issues.. Just simple forget "Ei" and use Tropica Specialized. Do a 50% water change, than after a couple of days do another one and start using "Tropica Specialized". With medium light (50 to 60 lumens per liter), CO2 pressurized in order to 20 PPm Initiate...

Good morning, In my case i simply have it on the tank cause more of a question of beauty than anything else. I kind like to watch it in ;) Once my Co2 is properly regulate i dont´care about it anymore. Just do a clean time to time. Alltough.. i assume i also have it in there just in case...

And you also have something in between one of the tubes... witch is another thing the rotor has to deal with..At list it seems to me as i look at the picture.

That´s what i´m saying also. Gaz exchange is compromised cause the filter is not enough even to a 60P tank assembled like this one and that´s why the film appears. So you´re having Co2 saturation. Too much tube and weight for the rotor impulse to the tank. I know pretty well JBL 901 and i´m...

By the way.. what do you have inside the filter? Is the manifold full open? The tubes do some curves? Can you insert a picture of the assembling?

Wich means low filter capacity or incorrect assembling! That´s why i aproach the filter issue. ;) If a couple of days after a WC the swirl or movement effect disapeear this may be a good reason but as i said before it is needed to review the filter. Next WC take off the Lily PIpes and insert...

Hi there, Lily Pipes are tricky.. cause it depends on too much factors. I used to have Cal Aqua, Blau, ADA Lily Pipes and for now i have AquaRebel Lilly Pipes and these are the most effective i experienced so far...

Hi, I have these one´s for 3 years now and still running ;) 9 euros each. With several programing. http://www.leroymerlin.es/fp/13970502/programador-digital-evology-digital-semanal

The difuser in the other side. Enviado do meu SM-A510F através de Tapatalk

Here you have. In my tank. Enviado do meu SM-A510F através de Tapatalk

Put it here.

According to Those bubbles near to the drop checker i assume your difuser must be very near to it. Put the drop checker in the opositte side of the difuser. Once there is marking a good value than you´ll have enough Co2 in the tank. Regards

Yes do that for fert and ligths down as reccomended. But please put your drop checker down below. Below is where you need to measure. Not upwards. You´ll need to measure the presence of CO2 down below near to plants ok? Still looking at that reagent colour almost outside of the water i may...

Other thing.. You use Amazonia Soil. Have you done WC as reccomeded for the initial month? Cause if you havent´t there you go.. a big issue for your algae with that amount of light also. If you haven´t done WC the harm is allready done. When did you set up this ?

Good afternoon, As for Lights my collegues in arms allready said it all. 9600 Lumens in a 60 liter tank is a tremendous value. At list till you established your tank. If it is a recent set up don´t speed that much. Reduce velocity and in a couple of months you may be able to upgrade a bit. Try...

Update: photos taken right now without any edition. Many thanks. PLANO FRONTAL Enviado do meu SM-A510F através de Tapatalk

Evening, I don´t even insert any fert on my tank. Just add reenforced my Tropica Plant Growth with a complement bought in an agriculture store (not any aditive) that i mixed with in the very beggining and till today and time to time i do some testing and always have between 0 to 5 PPM of No3...

Good morning to you all, I have another point of view. What happen here is the result of lack of care and inbalance tank. What is happening now could happen earlier. Fisrts of all he´s using Amazonia and didn´t realize WC as it should be. Secondly hasn´t done an apropriate fertilization...

Assembling date? Filter? What is in it? That ADA Amazonia is new? Are there more plants? Wich ones? How are them? Excel is in substitution of pressurised CO2 is that it? NPK with what target? Is there any reference of this light brand? We also need photos of the tank. At list some front...

Good Morning, I thinks it´s best if you describe entire set up and detail routines. Just by regarding no one can point a cause. Best regards,

Good morning dear friend, Whast´s your opinion on the TwinStar device? I had it on the past and didn´t notice any benefits.. So i took it out cause electrolisys is not good for photosintesis and other issues. I used to have more algae with it than backwards.. Big hug

I love this... photo taken right now... Enviado do meu SM-A510F através de Tapatalk

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This one goes in portuguese but i believe the vídeo speaks for it self on How i do some triming in some plants. Enviado do meu SM-A510F através de Tapatalk

Some of the work on vídeo. Sorry my rusty english.. Enviado do meu SM-A510F através de Tapatalk

Good morning People. Maintenance day... this is in such matter that i find plants flowting on the tank... ( see photo) Vou dar uma razia daquelas... Está assim neste momento. Let's put the scisoor working... A big hug to you all Enviado do meu SM-A510F através de...

Hello dear friend, Looking forward and wish you all the best. Big Hug

Evening: My attack plan for you. Filter: Your filter should only contain filter pad and ceramics. Nothing else. First of your problems is to much flow and water agitation. Way too much indeed. A 1501 Jbl for an 85 Liter tank? Why? I´m even surprised how you didn´t get allready BBA... You...

Hi dear friend, The scissor is always working! :) Many thanks on your aprecciation. A big hug.

Good morning dear friend. I did this layout with one thing in mind but has plants started to grow i suddenly realise that i would rather change some plants and forget the idea of doing "Socalcos do Douro - Portugal". One day looking at it comes the ideia of doing more like a Dutch style than...

Many thanks my friend. Just trying my best. Cheers!

My Rotala walichi planted Last saturday. [emoji16] Growing pretty well. Feeling happy [emoji4] Enviado do meu SM-A510F através de Tapatalk

My water is 10 to 12 KH and 16 to 18 GH... For your Knowledge let me tell you that in the past i tried many combinations with osmosis. Combining osmosis with TAP water aboout 50/50 and 60/40 and 70/30 in order to achieve different KH and gh and you know what? Never seen any results or...

One small Quick vídeo.. Rotala WALICHI in the back developing pretty good [emoji4] Enviado do meu SM-A510F através de Tapatalk

I pretty much reccomend "EQuo Stilla" ceramics. There´s no better in the market. They are truly Porous comparing to others.