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Haha yeah nothing wash particularly cheap with the build but it a one off and really wanted to get it right for the plants etc. So far seems to have gone pretty well. Crypts are being a pain with melting and not seeing as much growth as one would hope for but think it just all needs to settle in...

Thank you Abhishankar. Will get some updated photos this weekend as there are now a lovely load of fish in there :)

Sorry for delay in reply, they are the Kessil A360WE

A few more slightly better photos as stated then. From sofa Overall Left Side Right Side Others

Thanks Ben, I've got two carpet plants to do the two different areas, the sides will be eleocharis sp mini. The central will be monte-carlo to give some nice contrast (hopefully) Have 8 pots of each to go in. Better pictures should show it tomorrow plus water should have cleared up some as...

Cheers Ryan, me neither. Long way to go but it is a starting place. Will get some better pictures tomorrow. And course, just let us know when your up for a meet up. Also let us know when you and the others are up for a meet your end as well :) Regards, Adam

Thread here to see how the planting is going https://www.ukaps.org/forum/threads/my-intial-setup-for-my-aquascape.48519/

At the moment I drain my tank direct out the window that is 2ft from the aquarium. Then I run the hose on low and refill from there as I have no fish. The only difference I will have once I get fish is that I will be adding some Prime to the tank as it is filling during water changes. I would...

Thanks Tim, In regards to the echinodorus quadricostatus they are all small individual stems that I tried to clump 4-5 together and they were still lifting. I think if I had a powder soil over top of the TMC Nutrasoil it may have worked better as the soil isn't very fine and thus does not do...

This is currently where I have got too I haven't done the carpet plants for two reasons. One is that I just ran out of time to then get the aquarium filled up overnight and second is that I want to get the CO2 and Ferts sorted as well. This will hopefully be done by Tuesday all going well...

I have been planting since about 12pm so far and about 2/3rds done now. The 15kg will fit in the corner to the left of the tank as there is space there where it wont be visible. The inside dimension of the cabinet is 850mm so the largest internal of the cabinet would be a 3.15kg CO2 pub tank or...

Yes I was also really impressed with the packaging that they have used and how well organised it is. It made things much easier to check through to get ready to start planting up. The tank is an Evolution Aqua 1500+ in Matt Anthracite Grey. Yep CO2 is being sorted, I have ordered the CO2...

Why of course :) As an update generally. Finally have all my plants from Dave at Aquarium Gardens. Opened the big box and now trying to work out how best to proceed. My though it, drain the water off. Scrub the wood down and start to plant up following my layout plans. First of, this is the...

Also 5 A's Tool & Plant are an adamsgas distributor. 3.15kg is £66 + £16.80 refill. You get £55 deposit return 6.35kg is £66 + £22.56 refill. You get a £55 deposit return (so yeah much better to go for this over the 3.15kg if you have room) 15kg is £96 + £48 refill. You get £80 deposit return...

Just had confirmation of plant dispatch today with delivery tomorrow via Interlink Express. Dave at Aquarium Gardens has been excellent. I have now got supplier of CO2 bottle local and just awaiting Co2 to confirm delivery of their Professional Aquarium Kit.

OK, so hobbyweld 6kg CO2. Bottle £60 deposit. Refill £25.95 Local to Banbury is Bodicote Flyover Farm Shop White Post Road Banbury OX15 4BN phone number: 01295 270789 They are new to supplying for hobbyweld but very helpful. They currently don't have any in stock but said shouldn't be a...

Nope and I'm struggling as also in Banbury. If you do get any luck would be grewat to hear. I'm also looking, at moment Birmingham or Carterton seem best options.

It should certainly still unscrew, it is likely stuck from years of not being unscrewed and limescale buildup.

I would just use a hairdryer to blow hot air if you want to completely dry it out. On the bathroom taps they may be threaded internally or push fit. However your kitchen one that end aerator should unscrew leaving an external thread that you then screw the Python adaptor on too. The reason they...

Managed to get order sorted, will be here Friday or Saturday. Just going to keep doing a few water changes till then to get things ready for planting. The Co2 kit is on way but won't be here till week after so hopefully won't have too many issues between then.

Massive shout out to Dave at Aquarium Gardens. Will be ordering tomorrow (pay day) and he has agreed the following with me and honoured the 10% winter discount even though the sale is over. Can not ask fairer than that. Is awesome news and means got a great stocking list. That with the other...

Will do this next week while off and report back then. Cheers for all the info and tips and sorry OP for hijacking thread but hope it helps you also :)

Updated to add a few things I had forgot about in my haste putting this together. The background and stainless inflow/outflow pipes were missing. And just adjusted the view distance so should be a little easier to read.

Maybe, as mentioned I think I will try to get a bit of sponge as fine as the black sponge linked in sheet form to cut up and see how that goes.

Cheers Darrel, In essence would the pre-filter not block the same as the canister filter and thus cause the same issue if not more so by already reducing flow by the canister filter trying to drawer water through the pre-filter, at least ones such as the Eheim unit? Will have some thoughts...

Created a breakdown of costs of what I have spent and will be spending on this aquarium just so people have a reference if they take on a 400 litre high tech planted tank. People may have realised I have swung back and forth between low and high tech and most the plants I have selected with help...

That is fair enough. Do you just avoid worrying about picking up the smaller particles? I don't mind opening it up but it would just be better if it was once a month. I am not sure it would be able to bypass the biological media with the design. However I understand the water being held for...

Aye, was going to try to remove some of the media from the filter this weekend. Why remove the fine polishing pad though. That is the only part picking up the smaller particles? Regards, Adam

Have had 4 different filters from Eheim and this is the first Pro 3 and I have it set up as the manual and debris collect constantly where the filter head drawers the water back through. I have so far on this Pro 3 had a faulty heater, broken pump, primer button not work and impeller shaft...

I would try it but I am awaiting for the replacement impeller spindle that snapped on first start up with new head they sent as they sent the wrong one first time. So not had much luck. I am using the Eheim Pro 3 2180 1200 XLT so it is head design on all their filters with this issue. The rep...

Appears so. It appears the floss picks up all the particles (as it should) but then of course because it is centralised with the flow rather than being evenly distributed. That is why I feel moving it lower may help where there is more free flow.

Even with the grill on top all I end up with is the grill bump indent and and that area goes brown instead and does the same thing. I am not sure on real solution to this other than maybe moving the filter pad down another basket with it not so full to see if that helps.

Sounds like an excellent plan of action. Look forward to seeing how that ends up :)

Oh and I could attach my power head although that also has it's own controller to do different speeds and timings?

Cheers Ian, Interesting bit of kit. So that is a slave dosing pump that doesn't need the timer unit built in and then just use the PLC for it and connect the solenoid up this as well to time it from one unit? I don't have a heater to worry about as that is built into the filter. And I am not...

So charterhouse are recommending the TMC Easi-Dose 1 which I can get for £80. Thoughts? Edit: It is a 3 roller so will get a non-return valve added if I do for it.

Amazing, just so amazing. Very jealous of that layout. I hope one day I can have something like this :) In regards to trimming, I like the balance it has now in terms of growth but each to own :)

Or going for a D-D pump that is 1ml/min with a timer on it I assume would also work so that it comes on for 5 mins doses and then turns off again?

Cheers Ian :) I will make sure to get a 4 roller pump and polyurethane tubing then. I assume the way to check for 4 roller is to just check specs. Charterhouse are rubbish with their product descriptions so will look them up otherwise. This looks reasonable...

Hey all, So I am unfortunately away a lot from home or about irregular hours. With that I can see people seem to suggest daily dosing is best for plants as it means they get nutrients more consistent and even splitting up the day into 3 during the photo period so that they get between 2-5ml...

Haha awesome story and cheered me up to read (sorry to laugh) but amazing looking pond am very jealous as is my father in law who wants to build something like this next year. And Roadmaster, honestly apart from the apparent danger, also an amazing story. Glad to know you survived to still be...

They would be cool as candle holders haha. Misses would love these and they would match up nicely with the decor

Thanks MrH, I wish the time and effort and patience was all put into the aquarium and being able to have scaped it over a few months however misses wants it running by start of February cause she is fed up of the glass box in the living room being empty. It will get there, just lots of...

Decided after a lot of debate that the wood is the right shape and size overall but the wood is too thick so am on hunt for similar piece that overall thickness is thinner. Monies waiting to get such a piece. Also I have done some tweaks, the rock to the rear left has been propped up and looks...

No worries, I am looking at thinking it's starting to look really good and wondering what if anything I would suggest. Things look to be growing nicely and pretty good balance of colours and hardscape. I would suggest it may be worth a trim of your stem plants at the back to try and get them to...

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There is some wood on Charterhouse (still have £113 in credit with them) so saw this but might be a little large lol

Cheers Costa, certainly a start. I have moved some of the smaller sections about to suit what can be planting areas later so shapes a little more organic and not so square. Will no doubt get a lot more tweaks later on.

General My viewing position on sofa Local areas Commments: I want to move the rock at the rear left up but need to get something to sit it on in the tank that can be covered like egg-crate or just more rock to place under. Also then need a new bit of wood as I have used what was...

So have ran out of stone and wood and have only got this far so need to order lots more. Oh I forgot to explain. The box was smashed but contents was OK, they found the lost package in Manchester sorting office and I went and picked all the rocks up this morning at 6:30am to get on with it. So...

The last recent post the OP done was March so might be a dead log now.

Certainly wood, this is why I was looking into it. Getting a small warehouse unit with tools and going into building such. I have a friend who is a metal worker so could create steel stands. We would offer generic sizes but in more custom size compared to that of the mainstream. To try and...

Thanks papa_cee, My xmas shopping has gone swimmingly compared to this haha. Only one more gift to get on that front. Yes I am not sure mines quite on that epic scale but thank you. I am just hoping it can all come together. My 5L of Tropica Ferts has arrived so that's good. With me talking...

Fair play. I got a quote for a tank I was looking at doing and the guy in China said US$34.50 per m2 for 15mm panel and all edges polished. Works out about US$170 for a 1500x90x600 tank but need to buy enough material to make 50 ;)

Haha, you could always check out shipping, probably still work out cheaper lol

Haha, this has become hysterical. Out of the 4 boxes ordered: 1 box has been lost (24kg of rock walked off) 1 box has been damaged (they had enough of being in the plane I guess and wanted out) 2 are here in UK getting ready to be dispatched but only the smaller boxes of little rocks So yeah...

Sorry to hear that, where are you based?

If you have a friends tank that you know is healthy can always set it up on theirs whilst you are working on your tank. It should speed things up and even half the media between their filter and yours. After that and once you are ready just disconnect it and move it to the new tank when your...

See your image looks like you are pretty close to replicating this. If you spun the rock on the right around and dug the base in a little then it could finish off what you have done there nicely.

I have managed to find a place in UK that would do the glass for £230 which appears cheapest so in honesty I don't think it is cost effective unless you are buying in bulk from China with custom panels and making 40 tanks a year in honesty. I can work them out to cost closer to £100 a tank...

That seems expensive for float glass (standard glass) I can get a full low iron cut with polished edges to your dimensions for 5% more. and the cost for float glass version is about 20% less than the low iron making it about £220 To give an idea a commercial made low iron can be brought for...

No problem :) In regards to dimensions. Assuming you are going for internal base design (as standard) then you want to allow 2mm for each side that has a silicone bead. So that would mean you want Panel A = 876x496/Length x Depth (base) Panel B = 900x510/Length x Height (Front & Rear Panel)...

No problem. This hobby from my previous experience is all about taking your time and improving as things progress.

I agree with this move to the left and rear of the larger current far left rock. I would say at the moment, height is what is lacking. I believe you will loose your rock that is currently at the rear of the tank and something 3x the size would be more suitable in that location. However I...

Oops missed question. It looks to be this model clamp...

Yeah sorry OP. Just thought all info was interesting to know for people building own aquarium tanks.

Good shout and bigger the better ;) so my vote for the 150x50x50. I will say that 150x60x50 works nicely because timber boards come in 8x4ft lengths for instance so you can cut one in half to get your 60cm/2ft width you need (will loose 2mm from cutting and cleaning edges but not anything to...

Exactly :) glad we at agreement. And yes of course rule of thumb applies but I would question anyone who has a hardscape that weighs more than 50% of water in the tank. Maybe on heavy all stone hardscapes in smaller aquariums (not nano cause minimum glass thickness would already be enough) but...

That was what was stated. Larger aquariums (public ones for instances) have sometimes used them in a laminated form as you can then increase the tensile strength to much greater levels by doing so compared to just low-iron/annealed panels.

No no, sorry you are miss understanding what I mean. The weight of the water when in-situ exerts far greater loads on the front & rear panels at all times during it's life than the weight of your substrate and hardscape will exert on your base panel when drained and being moved. Thus the same...

Cheers for comments and feedback everyone. I am pretty sure as you are all saying it may well have been different 20 years ago. I certainly have books my parents brought that advice the heat cable but the filtration, the nutrition, the C02 systems, the lighting were also very different and maybe...

I will also state that the weight/load of water will be far greater on the front panel than the hardscape/substrate of an empty tank when moving so you should also never need to have a panel thicker to allow for this either.

So for some background information The defining factor for selecting the correct panel thickness is the largest panel size as this will produce the highest load factor. Also worth noting is that once you get to a certain width then only the height really needs to be considered (this is...

Hey, what did you mean by no filter media? I can see you have an Ehiem filter on this but is it just for added water capacity then if no media?

First two boxes of rocks out of 4 are on way from Hagen - Germany. Didn't realise that it wasn't a UK warehouse as not stated but it doesn't change anything other than watching the DHL thing in anticipation. Should be a good weekend if arrives on time.

That's a striking scape. I love the sense of endlessness you have created there ;)

Further to that; I have just read through the myth debunk article and points 5 & 7 contradict one another, one states you can grow anything in what is effectively low tech and the other says don't be silly to do those plants you have to have high tech. Em OK then. In fact the whole of point 7...

So I am just looking through articles whilst I wait for my rock to arrive and soaking up all the extra info I can and make sure I am all up to date. I used to read PFK years back which I always thought had some solid info but as I read on certain forums (such as this one) they seem to be very...

Aye, am hoping it should be enough unless I opt for a hardscape of rock with no wood but not feeling that at moment. Will get some picture as soon as items arrived. Told the misses that it is coming in two batches so hope she doesn't cotton on otherwise she will want some new shoes or something...

No problem. It may look way better in my head than it does in real life but I am hoping it works for you :) I am hoping all my rock arrives early next week to start hardscaping. Just cleaned up my old wood to sell as I want to start afresh with this tank.

So, got chatting away and ended up ordering a load more rock :D So yeah I have ordered a 100cm and an 80cm set on top of my other two 120cm sets. That would take us up to: XXL: approx. 35 cm x 2 XL: approx. 25 cm x 3 L: approx. 16 cm x 4 M: approx. 12 cm x 14 S: approx. 6 cm x 20 Total...

Yep. It would give it some asymmetry to break the lines up and from what wood you have I could see that you could get it to arch over from rear left to front right, the smaller wood piece similar angle to picture three but placed between the rocks. That would give you some good planting sections...

So yeah I have ordered a 100cm and an 80cm set in the end. Thought best to have too much than not enough :D That would take us up to: XXL: approx. 35 cm x 2 XL: approx. 25 cm x 3 L: approx. 16 cm x 4 M: approx. 12 cm x 14 S: approx. 6 cm x 20 Total Weight 69kg of rock. Hopefully that will...

I like the hardscape in 6 but feel you could pull the section on the left forward and rotate 90 degree. Then try some different wood placement after that :) nice rocks.

Haha I don't mind smashing and yeah a 60cm set is no problem :) just don't tell the misses ;)

Cheers again for the info and the link as well :) Certainly a lot to consider. I am thinking I could order the 60cm pack as well and add some more too it. That comes with the same set of stones without the XXL then. And I can always split the XL and large down if needed. Good shout on the...

Thank you for getting back to me quickly. I guess what we should commend is your photo and aspect skills then ;) I can imagine front on or from above it may look shallow to the tank height, however if I could replicate that style in a 120cm x 50cm tank so that when you are facing directly on...

Still love number 3 after going through them. There is just something on point where you have the visual queues and the depth works with the angles created. I would just remove the far left rock from the back and place it at the front under the large rock on the left. Keep the angle the same...

Cheers Doubu, I am also hoping I have had the worst of it haha. We shall see though. Can't wait to get the rock here and start to landscape with the wood and that. I still need to find more wood to match though. And I am currently looking at what C02 kit to get now. I have just found this on...

Hey all, I have been looking for a place near Banbury for C02 tanks be it Pub with screw top or FE however the closest place CTC is/has closed down so anyone know any suggestions. Regards, Adam

So I have got a refund being processed for the lost content on the tubs which is good. I saved as much as possible and that was about 8x10KG tubs in the picture. I have now got 48kg of Seiryu Mini Landscaping Rock which cost me £123.48 total or around £2.57 per kg which I think is reasonable...

Oh and lights are not placed or anything. Just put on to get them out the way. As you can see I still need to adjust the height of them to be level.

Thanks, it has been a frustrating time however I have now started decorating the house so got the painting done and the soil in for now. It is at least starting to look like an aquarium and not a glass coffin. Holding off until I get the stainless steel & acrylic background next before...

What can I say, The soil arrived......however it arrived as such; Sorry about blur but am in rage mode. Nick is on email trying to sort it at moment but it's just the hassle especially when I am currently painting the living room at moment.

Cheers Alto, The problem with soil is just frustrating but at least it will move forward. Just waiting for it to be dispatched now. And yeah they can of course be cleaned but the Dragon stone is such a pain to clean out because of the surface. a bleach dilution wouldn't be great I don't...

Sorry not been on here but there has been nothing happening. Charterhouse claimed they were getting the Tropica stuff in a month on 18th September and still have not. I cannot order from anywhere else as they have £395 in credit on my account with them so can't just spend it anywhere else. I...

Next small update in regards to collection of the wrong cabinet. EA called me Thursday (29th September) to say they had spoken to Charterhouse who they say placed the order wrong with the colour and the cutouts which contradicts what Chaterhouse said. After that EA say they spoke to Ryan at...

Cheers Alex. Am pleased it is getting there. Just waiting game on the next lot of things to sort and will start a proper Journal then :)

A couple of photos from my mobile on where we are at. Wood is being weighed down at moment so hopefully will be all good in a week or so without needing rock on it. The left light still needs lowering to match the right and am tempted to drop another inch still but shall see.