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Wow was shocking....

Nice I was still at work when they played. Watching the ireland game nou. Cant wait for the springboks.

Well im from south africa. And to be honest my prediction is a NZ vs eng final. NZ for the win. Soutn africa just not on the game at this time...

Loving it

So I have an ada 90p with 4x39w lights Ada aquasoil Also decorative river sand Dragon rock Some wood Way to many species of plants Tetratec 1200 canister filter 2kg co2 with reeftek regulator Saga super diffusor Ottos and yellow forktail rainbows Also orange neocardina shrimp Tank been...

Prodibio spots and velvet works wonders. The marine one. Also feed fish with seachem vitality. Prodibio spots and velvet the marine one is reef safe

Drinking coffee and watching this tank in person on saturdays is awesome

Really cool floating plant... Unfortunately we cant get it in south africa

Seriously and you dont post a pic come on now time is ticking

Still waiting on a update for the new scape

Imo they need to grow in more

Looks good. All I see is lion king pride rock haha

Still love the kessil leds. Just dont get the reds on the plants like I want to

One of my fav scapes

Its going good actually. No algae lots of growth. .. But the bottom parts of the wood started to give a bad smell. Lifted one out of the water and it was starting to decay underneath probably had to check that before I soaked the wood. So scape changed slightly but still like it will...

You can ramp up the light intensity a bit hey. 40cm is high above the tank

Haha Julian I see that pic in real life now.... with a accent and all

Such a large pond doesnt need 50% waterchanges

So this is the setup now

Thanx im actually in 2 minds about the carpet? The riversand will give some contrast to the rocks and ferns when the rank matures. But I will let the carpet grown in before I make a decision

Just need a background

So here is an updated photo.

o this is the tank with the new rocks. Still waiting for my new ferns to arrive in the mail Have a bit of brown slimy thread algae but lights been on for too long. Also raised my lights alot for now. Need to get a timer asap.

Loving my tank. Did change the rocks but it's still the same scape. Just nicer rocks. Will update when its grown in more and when I got weeping moss and more needle leaf ferns which is impossible to find!

Plants is starting to grow. Everything has new leafs. Groundcover is shooting out runners everywhere. No algae so far running lights only at 5hours a day

Its in a spare room. Tank will be moved next month onto a cabinet in dining room

Did my first 50% waterchange today. Water is much clearer now. Alot less tannins (for a day probably

Just one thing the peroxide isnt really shrimo friendly. So I will use 12ml per 100L (tank volume) once a week max. Thats the 40vol peroxide. Can use less concentrated peroxide if you have shrimo and dont want to lose them. Also big 50% weekly waterchanges is recommended

Love this tank one of my all time favouritez

Other thin is using a spray bottel with diluted peroxide and squirt ot on the problem areas

I just dose lots of seachem excel it works wonders. Can also use a syringe and squirt it on the algae

Yeah I tried I cant get the kessils higher with the gooseneck just running my lights for 5hours a day at the moment hope it helps

Thanx. I actually dont know. Galaxy rosboras maybe or some yellow blue eye rainbows

Added purigen. Tank is clearing up Will post more pics when all the plants are in and settled

Going to be a good one

Well atleast its good food for the ottos

Just didnt work for me clouds up the water for half a day and thats it. I dont know. But will get better filtration anyway

Im not the biggest fan of seachem clarity. I would rather use carbon and purigen

Seriously need a beter filter. 24 hours and water still hasnt cleared. Will get a canister filter and some purigen. 1 bbps co2 and my dropchecker turns yellow

So its planted. Actually got co2. Stilk need to do emmersed part but im in 2minds. Need to get a good canister filter also

So water is in. Will post pics when the water has cleared

When its set up I will post pics. Still busy with the lay out. Figuring out where to put which plants. Stilk need to get more java ferns and bilbitis

Also time for a update!

Looks good. Just dont like the vallis at the righthand side of the scape. It breaks the flow of the scape for me

Thanx @Troi will check the link now. Think its going to be a fun exciting journey! Hope you guys enjoy the setup like I would. Might not be the best scape out there but its my own and its a total new concept for me

Must say im soooooooo excited cant wait for tomorrow afternoon to setup the tankm will probably spam my journal with pics. Another challenge is to keep keep the algae at bay with such a shallow tank and no co2! Must say love kessil leds. Used it before and I wont get other leds

Thanx. Its the first time I try a scape like this and my first freshwater tank on 2years. Setting up tank tomorrow

All I know is it wont be easy to get good photos of the scape because of it being so shallow and wide

So I decided to start my journal. The tank is 90x60x30h (cm) 2x 150w amazon sun kessil lights Substrate will be river sand Lots of rock and wood. Moslty anubias java fern moss crypts and tenellus Fish dont know yet. Going to use broms and ferns emmersed on the wood. No co2 Going to use a...

Hydrocotyle plants is one of the hardiest plants to grow emmersed also

Really like the side view alot

Seriously waiting for a update

Looks nice. I will give it time to grow in and then check how the hardscape turns out. Maybe blyxa japonica around the harsh edges of the hardacape?

I love the new sicce nano flowpumps. They are small and nice looking and do 2000lph

Thats awesome. Hope to see lots of emmeesed growth in this scape Question I have loads of anubias im gona use in my scape end of the month. Want to grow them emmersed. Think I must cut the leaves off? They will drop their leaves anyway because of the emmersed transformation.

Awesome. Made the worlds difference.

Had a 240x60cm tank and trimming a 2.4m carpet takes a looooong time. Never mind the costs of ferts and lights also substrate was aquasoil costs quite alot of money and maintenance on a high light fast growing tank like this just takes the fun out of it

Awesome. Allot of effort and patience to get your hardscape like that. You gona have a dry start? Its a pain to get the soil to stay put with slopes like that

Yep the BIG tank. yeah dont get wood like this in a shop its amazing

Well will have to wait and see whats your plans. I will start a thread when I get my tank not gona hijack your thread

Yeah looks cool. Something like the emmersed growth on the wood like in your previous scapes will look cool to hide the places where the wood was sawed. I myself will be setting up a 90x60x30h tank end of january when im settled into the new place. Cant wait for the massive tank also you will be...

Viewing your threads almost everyday waiting for a pic update!

Awesome. Thats actually my favourite pleco. Like them even more than Zebra pleco.

Still waiting for those photo updates......... :drowning:

This really looks promising

ja. will get a small tank again also less work then. have a soft spot for a planted tank microfish. as soon as we can gwt rosy loaches it will motivate me enough to start again

it would have been cool to use smaller branches at the base. had plans to change all the stems to a long HG variety but plans changed when i decided to convert this tank will get a 60p or so next year.

well this is the final pic. its converted to a marine tank

yeah im pleased just have a bba hiccup on the right in the hairgrass stupid faulty timer switching the co2 on and off during the day. replaced it just waiting for the bba to die back. in 2 minds about the hairgass. thinking of replacing it with UG. pic was taken 2 days after a good trim. ferts...

well i keep mine with a pair of nanocara anomala's and they dont even bother also dont do anything woth the tetras. and leave my largd cherrie shrimp alone. i see my female is starting to fatten up and the male is showing slot of colour towards the female so will see if there is any aggresion...

thanx yes i have a pair in there

well because of the size of the tank and my awesome BlackBerry camera you wont really see progress. but bushes are much more dense because of trimming and replanting and the Hairgrass carpet is also starting to fill in. will take pics in a month or 2 with a decent camera

seriously cool with the rosy loach fry. ive been trying to get rosy loaches for over a year in south africa

i will have to wait until it eventually arrives south africa

square tanks are much harder to scape. also to photograph.

i had it in my cube. it grew fairly easy for me. but did a bleach dip on everything to try and rid snails and lost all my blyxa. so i dont have troubles growing it. u havd troubles growing ludwigia inclinata "curl" and macranda red

so was thinking of blyxa aubertii for the left and right edges of the islands? any thoughts on that?

love it love it. shesshhh cubes are difficult to scape well done. love those fish also

thanx. im going to build custom inlet and outlet pipes that looks more neat and fit in the corners of the tank

thanx would like 100 neons 50 rummy noses and 20 ottos

i wont have a hood on my tanks again

its 45cm high. just easier to work in and also to keep clean. doesnt have to use that much light also

its almost done!

some new plants i got for when im setting up this tank next weekend

so this weekend the side panes are going on the the tank then gona let it dry for a week

bliksem. love that. wish i cpild have scaped my cube like that

so stand is being prepped this week. glass is here tomorrow so hopefully next weekend i have some glass siliconed together in a shape that can hold water. cant remember what its called or how it looks haha

thats a cool idea. like it alot

know the feeling of empty pockets! glad things are progressing.

thats just briliant. wow

will probably be done next weekend. will leave the tank to dry for a week and do leak test. so hopefully i can start in 2 weeks. have an amazing piece of wood i want use. it has an arch of 1.2 meters with loads of detail. want to use it as a "bridge" between 2 islands. gona use xmas moss all over it

hope the tank is fine this time! luckily one of the best tank builders is building my tank and they are building it on the stand in my living room so i can also see the progress. glass will be here on monday so also cant wait!

yeah! when are your tank finally ready!?

okay so changes. new tank is being built 240x60x45h. black silicone. glass is ordered. so now its the long wait!