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Ps. I am able to get my hands on a little 600l/h external filter which has been used for a sea water aquarium. Not sure if it is worth the effort cleaning it and adding it to the tank for extra filtration and flow. If that is even possible because it was used for salt water? The brand is...

Finally time to update this! :D I have been insanely busy with work, doing the work of 2 people on my own due to internal switching of staff. So I haven't been able to update this thread or even look around Ukaps all that much. What I did manage to do was keeping up with the tank, changing...

Update again! :cool: Added some more fish to the tank: 5x Otocinclus (1 from the first group unfortunately died, most likely due to stress). 13x Threadfin Rainbowfish (4 males and 9 females). While at the LFS I also looked for my next (future) addition to the tank, Celestial Pearl Danios...

Went to my LFS yesterday to get my water tested as I wasn't reading anything with my test strips. Everything came back positive (zero ammonia and nitrite) so I went on to get the cleanup crew in place :cool: 12x Caridina japonica (Amano Shrimp) 5x Otocinclus vittatus After slowly getting them...

Amazing plant growth! Stunning tanks :thumbup:

Following! Looks great!

Great looking scape! Love the layout.

Update again :D Been doing the daily water changes and now starting once every other day. Most plants seem to be doing well. Weeping moss is getting greener by the day and the other plants are growing along nicely. My Anubias is completely rotting away with 1 plant already gone and the other 3...

Great looking tank! I like the DC pictures as I am currently trying to sort out my Co2 (first planted tank). Using a JBL diffuser but yours seems to be putting out finer bubbles.

Tank is running for 4 days now and I'm watching it way too much ofcourse :lol: I did notice a few things: 1) My DC stays the above color pretty much all the time which makes me wonder if I'm doing something wrong. Wether I'm adding Co2 or in the morning when no Co2 was added for quite some...

Plant list changed a small bit as the Rotala 'Green' was not available (the shop didn't like the quality of the ones they had so they tossed them) so it was replaced with 2 more Ludwigia Palustris 'Green' and they only had 2 Micranthemun Umbrosum so I was a little short on those when planting...

Finally! It took untill 03:00 but it is planted :D Here are some progression pictures: (Sorry for the phone quality, was too excited to get going that I didn't take out my DSLR but I will for the future! ;)) Setting up the hardscape: Adding aquasoil: Planting: Just finished filling:

Looking great Theo! Especially as you mention this being your first aquarium. Looking forward to seeing this progress :)

Going with #3 Went to my local Tropica dealer to talk about my selection of plants and my order should be ready for pickup next week :cool: Here is the list: 2x Limnophila Hippuridoides 4x Anubias 'Bonsai' 3x Micranthemun Umbrosum 2x Ludwigia Palustris 2x Micranthenum 'Monte Carlo' 2x...

Thanks! I'm much happier now aswell :cool:

A few more options: (The smaller branches will most likely need some trimming as it might get too busy like they are now) #1 #2 #3 #4

Finally got some time to play around with the hardscape again and this is what I came up with. I find it hard to imagine it planted yet but I'm happy with the way it looks right now :) I feel it is a bit more balanced now with less open space in the middle, the rocks look better and with the...

Great pictures! I really like the first one (nice deep green) :thumbup:

Hey Alto. Thank you for your time writing the above and your kind words :thumbup: As this is my first aquascape I don't yet have lots of hardscaping materials to pick and choose from but I do have 1 more large piece of wood in my current aquarium that you can see in this post...

Hey Ryan. Thank you for your comment! The woods are actually the same but the one on the right is already presoaked from my current tank. The one on the left is brand new and will become the same color after awhile (in water they turn a nice shade of brown).

Quite excited to finally start writing my first journal! :cool: Looking to set up my first planted tank according to the article written by Ed Seeley. Some information: Aquarium: Juwel Rio 180 Hardscape: Seiryu stone and Spider wood Substrate: ADA Aquasoil Co2: Pressurized 2kg Lighting: T5...

Congratulations on a great tank! Well deserved results :clap:

Just found this journal and I have to say your tank looked amazing!! :thumbup: Your picture with plant species and where they are located was great too. Will be using some of your ideas in my first planted tank. And then hoping I can achieve 10% of this tank's succes, I would be very pleased...

Went to my LFS and found 2 suitable pieces of wood to use on the left side. Did some work on the rocks and decided to use cat litter to finalize the look. Below is what I settled on :cool: Looking to add 2cm more height below the rocks so the substrate wont cover them as much. And ofcourse the...

Could give that a try! That piece is actually slightly smaller then the right piece. Just the branches are thicker which adds to that bulky look. Gonna check my LFS for some more stones this week and perhaps find a more suitable piece of wood for the left side (I'm quite happy with the piece...

Love the drawings! Very nice planning ;)

If anyone could also tell me why my pictures are that small I would be grateful! Solved (needed to use the Direct URL from Imageshack)

Hello Ukaps! Looking to set up my first planted tank following the article written by Ed Seeley. After reading a lot of journals and planning some scapes in my head I finally got around to playing with some actual hardscape in my own cardboard aquarium :happy: Some information: Aquarium...

Love the scape! LOTR! :D

Woods looks great! Nice tank :)

Looking great! Love the look (planning to create something similar in my tank, which is a bit smaller 100cm)

Great looking scape! Looking forward to see this evolve. Ryuu looks great too! :happy:

Following! Love the hardscape :)

Thank you!

Great looking tank! Love seeing the first setup and afterwards the evolution :cool:

Hey everyone! I have a question regarding the filter media in my Juwel Rio 180 (internal filter). As I intend to go planted for the first time I'm sure I will need some time setting up the new scape and getting everything planted. Since I will be keeping the internal filter I was hoping to...

Looks great! :cool:

Glad I found this thread! Awesome to see this evolve and all the planning you did before putting it in the tank.

Love the hardscape!

Thanks alot for the info! I was hoping for a dutch translation :happy: Is this similar? http://www.juwel-aquarium.de/nl/Producten/Meer/Filtering/Filtermiddelen/Cirax-Bioflow-3-0-Compact-M-Bioflow-3-0-Compact.html

After reading the tutorial for setting up a higher tech tank by Ed I remained with a few questions that I have a hard time answering when using the search function. So I'm hoping that someone can help me answer these and bring me 1 step closer to starting my first planted tank :) I have a...

Looking great! :cool:

Yeah now that you notice it, when I came home last night 1 of them made a hill of gravel... :lol: Thank you :) Great to see this forum being actively used! I actually have 3 goldfish (I just got the single one when I took over the aquarium but quickly added some friends) and 3 pleco's in...

Thank you! This I did not know :( It would make it easier to just give them back to the LFS as well as the goldfish (which I already planned on doing). Planning to use ADA Aquasoil for the new setup and was already thinking how to keep the fish while it settles in and the ammonia spiking is...

Hello UKAPS! Happy to be here :) My name is Jeroen and I'm currently in the process of doing my first ever planted tank. Got the aquarium (Juwel Rio 180) from my former mother-in-law including 1 goldfish. I have been taking care of that fish (and added 2 more + a few BN pleco's) for almost...

Saw it posted on fishforums.net and coming up in the search engines when looking for information :)