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Quality plants as always from @Aquarium Gardens, planting went quite well on Friday night, no dramas except from the normal glued fingers 😀 Some of the crypts have started melting already so I'm doing daily water changes to keep on top of the waste. Few ramshorn snails and cherry shrimp have...

Eleocharis might be the right one then, don't want it to look messy or for the plant to grow literally everywhere, as you say I'll give it a try.

Thanks. I've found Hemianthus micramthemoides to be an extremely fast grower in previous tanks, plus I like to use a few different floaters at start up to help with all the excess. I'm also pondering adding blyxa japonica (in place of the other two) along the rock line which also grows pretty rapid.

Be neither. I realised mine had all died off when I took down my last scape, but I don't really remember them ever having much interest in algae. Dropping a algae wafer in however, that had a different response. Probably won't be stocking them this time around. @Geoffrey Rea thank you for going...

Looking good @Deano3 , those rummynose tetras looking cracking in the scape. Good choice in my opinion.

Thanks. The layout changed slightly due to me not being able to replicate the same scape after removing the card 🙄 I don't have another bit of wood but I think I've removed the empty space to the right by using more rocks and moving the wood slightly. It's currently working through a dark start...

Very interested to see how you bring this back to glory, had something similar happen before and had no idea how to fix it. Is it a case of manual removal and ensuring the co2 and ferts are on point?

I'll try adding some leaves when the tank is up and running again. Hopefully the cories and otos will like the extra food/cover it provides

What sort of dried leaves are we talking about? Do you just go out and collect anything? @shangman Is there a certain rule on what's good and what's not when it comes to fallen leaves? Sorry to hijack @Deano3 😁 What fish are you planning @Deano3

Had to break the tank down due to having some flooring done. This has allowed me to play about with layouts. I've missed not having the tank for the last 6 weeks or so and itching to get it up and running again. Trying an triangle layout this time with a larger foreground sand area to the front...

There ya go. Apparently only works for android though https://www.ukaps.org/forum/threads/install-forum-as-an-app-except-for-ios-safari.63171/

Try the actual UKAPS app @Deano3 . Tapatalk always had some form of issue in my experience.

Looking good @Wookii , the shrimp are going to be very happy in there 😀

Amazing! Can't believe all the plants are edible, what a gorgeous scape 😎

I prefer that if I'm honest, I really like the whole scape. Much better scale, the cories will love all that space.

Very impressive @Wookii, very nicely done. What back-light are you running on that? Looks very good. Making me itch for a rescape, maybe when the days get shorter 😊

9 months. Ticking along nicely. Soil on the sand still driving me crazy but apart from that all the plants seem to be happy. Had a little outbreak of bba on some of the buce on the left hand side. A bit of an oversight from me as direct sun was hitting the tank for 20 minutes early in the...

Looking good, plenty of fast growers in that plant list should help you get a good start up.

Meeting the residents 😂😍 Love these little fish already!

Always wanted pygmy corydoras in my tanks, have struggled to find good stock locally until today so couldn't resist and bought 8. Cute little things, hopefully they settle in nicely. 😍

Thanks Jay. Colours not sure to be honest. The ferts haven't helped me, messing about with them too much and also I've trimmed my stems back too much so they're only just filling back in, time will tell. The plants have filled in and grown a lot more. The monte carlo has exploded so much I...

Thank you, Thanks Dean Rescape itch hasn't set in as yet, quite happy with the scape as a whole and enjoying watching it grow. If I could redo it I'd make sure I plugged all the holes in the hardscape/and not have the soil so high. Bits of soil on the sand drive me mad. Also the whole scape...

8 months now. Enjoying this tank. Have stopped messing about with my ferts, tried to move to a lean dosing approach but it effected my stems too much and stopped filling in after trimming. So I've switched back to EI dosing and will try to use the light to tease some red from the plants...

I'm at that stage now. Want something to go with the wcmm and cpd's, only trouble is I want them to leave my shrimp population alone. Not easy to find a suitable fish.

6.5 month update. I'm enjoying this scape very much, enjoying the maintenance weekly or twice weekly recently. Fish seem to be happy and plants are ticking along nicely. Anyway I received my new chihiros vivid and hanging brackets. Nice decent brackets in my opinion, seem very well made. Hung...

I have 30 wcmm in mine with 15 celestial pearl danio, I know they are all juvenile but i feel like I want to add some more. Maybe a feature fish I'm not really sure TBH, Green neons look good in the scapes I've seen, as for numbers I'd say 30 would easily be a good place to start. They are quite...

Looking really good Dean. I like the scape, plants have filled in really nicely. Wish I could keep my sand that tidy 😔 What are you thinking stocking wise or are you holding on until your planned rescape?

Thanks Dean, I'm sure she'll grow out of it or get bored at some point, probably as a teenager lol, only time will tell.

Think I'll be going for a scape with carpet next time, just to change things up. Mind you I have Cory's and wouldn't be fair to not give them sand 🤔

Thank you Paulo, just struggling with keeping the sand clean for more than 24hrs 😬

My 4 year old daughter is starting to take more and more of an interest in the tank and fish, well especially shrimp which she thinks are crazy 😂. So I'm trying to keep her interested as much as I can with simple and fun tasks such as feeding and checking the fish and other bits and bobs, I've...

That makes sense, very tidy cabinet btw 😅

Great looking scape 👌 Noticed you've got 2 filters running on the tank. Did you find that you needed 2 on the 900?

Ticking along nicely. Suffered a little with a small amount of bba on the buce and anubias, due to me having a few manic days at work and taking my eye off the ball. (co2 tank ran out) [emoji22] All the stock have settled in nicely, love the characters of the wcmm. Scalped the H'ra back quite...

Looking amazing @Jayefc1. Quality looking scape. Stunning growth and colours. I've cut KN03 from my ferts and not noticed any difference in plant colour. Do you think your vivid has something to do with the colours more than the ferts? Saying that my tap water supposedly provides 6.5ppm nitrate...

Never grown it, but it always looked really good in AGs 900 aquascape. Those embers really pop under the vivid.

Amazing growth, healthy looking tank.

Hey. Rescaped my 55l scapers tank recently, moved all the snails and shrimp to the 900. Started up this one as a bit of a test/chance to learn more about water, co2 and ferts etc. The tank is being run on 100% rainwater and aiming to keep a tds of around 100ppm. I'll be trying a lean dosing...

Water change and a little thin out of the pinnatifida, found a few buce in the middle of all the stems I'd forgot I'd put there. Quite happy growing in the mess of stems [emoji4]

I've found Hairgrass melts slightly when added, seems to lose its emersed growth but should show some nice green new growth at the same sort of time. I've always added ferts from the beginning so I'm not sure if dosing some ferts would help it, I'd definitely be doing daily water changes though.

I like the first scape, rocks look very natural and the wood 'in my opinion' looks better pointing up. Following with interest after your other scape.

Sand siphoned out, good clean out, removed the fissidens off the stones as it attracts crud like a magnet. Little scrub of a few stones, not all of them as the otos seem to like grazing on it. The blyxa japonica seems to be doing well, growing more bushy by the day. Monte carlo is finally...

Full tank shots will have to wait mate [emoji6], sand needs changing as the cories have had a field day when I fed them grindal worms. Soil all over the place. Needs a tidy, didn't have a great deal of time over Christmas. Moss needs a little trim too.

Happy new year all, Stocked the tank with 30 WCMM yesterday. Never kept this species before and I'm quite pleased so far. They have coloured up reasonably well and quite quickly, they've not noticed the co2 infusion and most importantly they haven't been phased by my 4 year old dancing like a...

That treatment does need a few days @Deano3 to work properly, definitely try to do the water change as soon as you can after the treatment time has passed though and probably a good idea to do a couple on the trot. I did 5 in 3 days, 80% ones. Just in case there was an ammonia spike from the...

Thanks Jay, if you ever need to trim it back give me a shout [emoji6]

@Jayefc1 yeah the mc on the rocks. Looks really healthy, I'll persevere with mine and hopefully it'll turn out OK.

Wow Jay, looking great. Amazing growth, how do you get the monte carlo to grow like that? I struggle to keep mine down. Looking really good Jay.

Little update. Sand siphoned out and replaced, H'ra and pinnatifida trimmed. Gave the rocks a little scrub, removed the messy plants in the foreground. Had some Hairgrass, hydrocotyle and marsilea from the other tank that was looking really unorganised. Replaced with some blyxa japonica, that...

I am using the same ferts and I am dosing 10ml per day, so compared to Jay's tank I am still dosing too much, I'm slowly lowering it and trying to reduce the nitrates. I had an issue with iron a little while ago but that was down to the way I mixed the salts.

I like the wood, will look nice planted. Second what @dw1305 says about the pebbles, I think prodibio do some small rounded ones. I might be inclined to remove a little sand in the foreground, to make cleaning easier and stop algae/dirt build up against the glass.. That way you can siphon out a...

I was told they can be quite fragile after being transported, took me quite some time to find decent stock and stock that had been in the shop for more than 2 weeks. Watch for the odd jump after introducing them, they aren't jumpers as such but the new tank and their desire to gulp air sometimes...

I've got 6 pandas in my 900, great fish with character, always active, love a cooler water tank too, breed readily also. I do have a sand/beach area in mine however they spend most of their time in amongst the plants.

Well my Saturdays involve the other half going to work and a movie like Frozen, so after all that 'singing' I'm craving some decent music [emoji23]

Quite a turn around Jay, gotta love those long maintenance sessions, music on, beer in hand and immerse yourself. Some people's idea of hell, my idea of a Saturday night [emoji23] Scape's looking good [emoji106], loving the colour on the H'ra

I always understood bba to be caused by excess waste in the water or poor/fluctuating co2?? So I'm trying to limit the excess waste and checking my pH. I hope I'm on the right track. I've found my prefilters on the oase get clogged pretty quickly so I do them twice a week now, in tap water too...

Hi Dean, I'm struggling with similar at the minute, I've been doing what you've said in your post with cleaning the filter, soil everything I can think of. Not getting any staghorn that I can see but BBA and GSA (I think) on the anubias. I wasn't sure whether it's just still the tank settling...

Definitely extremely helpful and inspirational, looking forward to what you do next. [emoji106]

Thanks guys, made my mind up then. Green neons it is, I think 35 would be a good number, @CooKieS that is a stunning picture, thanks [emoji106]

Looking good Dean, I've been spot dosing my anubias and a few buce with glut every other day and it seems to be working, I upped my water changes and try to do 2 in the week. I've recently attached some airline tubing to my turkey baster and use that to remove crap as I blast the plants (seen...

Green neons would look great I think, I think 35 of these tiny fish would still disappear to a certain degree. Ember tetras are an option, not sure why I was avoiding red fish, maybe due to the cherries. Would green neons be OK in my moderately hard (160ppm) tap water? And at 23 degrees celcius...

Can anyone help with stocking plans, after loosing all my Harlequins due to sickness. I'm now ready to restock my tank, it currently has 8 panda cories and a boat load of shrimp (which I don't want to be eaten) I'm looking at one of the variations of neon, either black, green or the 'standard'...

Thanks guys, I'm really enjoying this tank.

Coloured up nicely. Quite brave little things, stealing food from the large amano females. [emoji23]

Update time. Big maintenance session the weekend and a small tidy up today. Think I scalped the moss a little too much on the wood unintentionally, but it was starting to die underneath so glad I did. H'ra and micranthemoides trimmed, pinnatifida trimmed back (even though I always seem to miss a...

Looking good Dean, the right corner is looking great with all the stems and colours. I'd manually remove the snails as much as poss, and if you remove as much as poss then try baiting them, remove one everytime you see one and they'll start dwindling. My pinnatifida I'm constantly breaking bits...

I'll try and grab a few pics later but my photo skills aren't the best [emoji57]

I managed to count 8 of them last night after a lot of looking, the ones I saw are doing fine, as for the ones I can't see I can only hope [emoji16] 30 of them put in, some very small mind, I imagine they're hiding out in the stems,

I'm hoping mine stay away from the cories, they'll happily breed in the filter if they get sucked in. [emoji85]

My 30 tangerine tigers arrived safe and sound in the post, hoping they colour up nicely. Seem to be settling in fine, not that I can see many [emoji28]

Something I need to look into further then, as they were £7.50 each which definitely isn't standard tetra prices! I think they did 3 for £21 which would mean a divorce and a remortgage to add the 30+ I would like......

Yes Jay.

Really like this scape, love the microdevario, I've thought about stocking my tank with a large shoal, however the price is a little off putting.

Little pic of my new favourite stem before a trim [emoji106]

Looks great, taken shape really nicely.

Is your plant smaller now or mine? Just curious.

Yep it's that stem exactly, tropica 1 2 grow.

Hemianthus micranthemoides, the green one I'm guessing?

Looking good Jay, those vivids really make the colours pop. The sand looks better, especially with the odd stone here and there, very natural.

Thanks Jay, I'll give it a good proper trim tomorrow. It's gonna completely disappear behind the wood for a while.

Sorry Jay you've lost me [emoji848]

Cut it back that low? Do I replant the tops too? Really new to stems. I thought I needed to leave them until they reached the surface TBH.

Hi Jay, coming along OK I think, to be honest I've taken my foot off the gas with all the issues with the fish, been doing daily (when I can) water changes to try and sort that problem. In the meantime I've grown a little unwanted bba on the edges of my anubias, due to the gas not being high...

Personally I'd add more shrimp and wait on the otos until there is significant algae or food for them to eat. They can be quite fragile in my experience. I'd probably try to get cherry's in first if it was me, but Amanos are still good.

When I planted my crypt pygmea in vitro all the leaves melted, I was advised by @dw1305 that it was best not to cut the leaves off before planting as there is no root system on in vitro plants. They all melted and grew back nice and healthy so it sounds like yours will be fine. Mine went really...

Amazing shot [emoji106] I've decided that I need a lightscreen now, they look so cool [emoji41]

eSHa Gastropex worked for me when I wanted to remove pond snails and Malaysian trumpet snails. Supposed to be fine for shrimp.

The snails will help clean up any melt or diatoms and if the tank is clean in the long run they won't reproduce quicker than their food if that makes sense. But if you want to remove them then better now than later. You can always try dosing the tank or leaving a lettuce leaf in the tank...

Looking good Dean, you're not the only one finding sand a pita, little black parcels everywhere or just general ditritus even though we clean it every week [emoji849] I have 30 Amanos in my tank, lost 5 due to them climbing out so be on the look out. They will jump at night/end of photoperiod...

The nice black fringe I'd have no problem growing lol Mine too @Jayefc1 and not sure I'd do it any justice. Does look good though and a plant I'd love to grow.

Am I right in thinking that due to the colour and lack of chlorophyll in the leaves they could be challenging to grow and very slow? Ie an algae magnet for someone like me [emoji1787][emoji1787] Sent from my MAR-LX1A using Tapatalk

Thanks Chris, as @Jayefc1 says it's hemianthus micranthemoides a new stem for me but I'm liking it so far. [emoji106]

Thanks Dean, I think so yes, if not spread then it'll branch out and I can continue to tie it down. I've been a bit rough with the trimming by ripping pieces off with my hands that don't sit flush to the wood in the hope it'll go horizontal. Sent from my MAR-LX1A using Tapatalk

Thank you, moss is slowly spreading up the manzi and hopefully the hygrophila will grow emersed at some point. Sent from my MAR-LX1A using Tapatalk

Thank you, I'm enjoying this tank quite a lot. Maintenance is a pleasure it's so easy. (well, not keen on the sand at the minute) Sent from my MAR-LX1A using Tapatalk

Tidied up the sand, scrubbed a few rocks, trimmed the moss and removed a lot of frogbit. Plugged a few more holes that I've missed in the wall, it seems I have missed a few [emoji30] Stems have picked up since my mistake with the ferts, grown rather fast in the past week. Added some pebbles...

Now that's an understatement @Jayefc1 Bet you missed one or two though [emoji23]

Looking good Jay, I always love how you do the sand/pebble area looks great. Can't stand mine already, if it's not odd bits of soil that I watch the Amanos knock or carry over it's little bits of fish waste making it look dirty. Yours looks so clean and natural.

You will need some potassium sorbate too which is basically a mould inhibitor.

That's what's nice about DIY ferts, cheap as chips really. As long as you turn your noggin on when making them [emoji23]