125L Iwagumi. "New beginning"

[Vito]

Great scape, love the carpet and the tree idea is nice too.

 

[Lauris]

ok. that's me again having no patience to wait more..
after flooding/draining the tank twice decided to fill
it and leave it over nite.
EI Ferts dosing as per book.. started the cycle with 20ml of Macro
Easy Carbo added 10ml yesterday on the go. as it was after the lights
were turned OFF - no dosing today. For the 1st day of flooding
Nitrates comes up with good results (see in tracker)
This time I:
* did increase CO2 injection(God knows for how much bps or
minute but the test shows up quite high levels, so I hope this will
get right with extra CO2)
* filter matured well in my little 25L setup. As you can see as per
chart (so far so good)
* I know it was not the case, but I used RO to top it up. So GH is
really down. KH back to the levels where it was when tank was flooded 1st

..ohh.. and another thing, yess.. I did it.. tree will stay out of this scape.
I was so obsessed with this idea I didn't want to take it out.. with time the
clouds in my mind cleared.. just needed to settle down

ok. I'll keep this one updated with tests..

 

[Lauris]

Thanks!
so the first day passed without much of stress.
In morning noticed Cuba leaves lightly curling. This fixed itself
once the CO2 did pick up with more gas injected. Tests shows really
nice results and this means once I'll manage to reduce the Co2 levels
to lime green in drop checker I will re-home my live stock in.
My timer on Co2 is set to work 5.5 hours during the Lights on and it
does switch the Co2 3 hours constant before the lights ON. also it is ON
every other hour form 8AM ( 1hour ON, 1 OFF) and 2 hours over the night.
With this I'm trying to secure the plants since the levels of Co2 of 300ppm
and more were cut-off to them. I might be wasting some amounts of the co2 but
I'm better wasting then draining it again..

So the test sheet comes up with nice results in all the parameters.
I really hope this time it will work out..

 

[Lauris]

Houdy!
Finally! My first photo update..
So live stock is in since Tuesday.
All looks well. Plants suffered a bit
melting but I took it as normal because
of the CO2 amounts were cut down when
flooded. Now HC is delivering new growth
and other plants are trying to adapt.
Dosing EI over the recommendations of
supplier, Co2 down to 30ppm and lights
ON for 5.5hrs a day.. Keeping level of
over 100ppm of Co2 24hrs for 3 days brought
my 2kg's Co2 tank near to zero. lol
Ok, forgot the name of this lil beast. took the last one from
My LFS.. don't ask why, I just named it - Henry. lol

I have those about 15 in my tank. Lovely snails and great addition to my scape

Also I have 6 Amano. Cleaning beasts. Cleaned all my rocks in few days.
Little one - about 1cm

And bigger one - about 3-4cm

And one of my Yellow Shrimps

ok, there it is..

I hope it will go all well. Ordered wave scissors, expecting first cut in 2-3 weeks..
Will add more rummys with time (20-30), as I see it is not enough with my 40

 

[Deano3]

great growth and love the scape glad the tree been removed and I am the same you get something in my head and no matter what anyone says its hard to change but when you do your normally glad you did lol love the scape and great rock work, love the fish choice like the snails also

Dean

 

[Phlash]

That is beautiful. Nothing more to say.

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[greenink]

Great scape. Lovely photography too. Really like the high contrast and shadows.

 

[Lauris]

great growth and love the scape glad the tree been removed and I am the same you get something in my head and no matter what anyone says its hard to change but when you do your normally glad you did lol love the scape and great rock work, love the fish choice like the snails also

Dean

thanks Dean. yep, no tree this time.. my mid just needed to settle down to leave the tree outside the picture. I just was to obsessed with the tree idea
Good push up from different ppl on different forums helped me a lot to sit down and think about it. And I'm glad I did it.

erutangiS klatapaT

 

[aliclarke86]

Mate this really looks fantastic. I'm glad you thought twice about the tree now it would have thrown the whole thing out of balance.

Keep it up!!

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[TOO]

This is turning out really well. I would seriously advice against adding more fish. This would unbalance the scape.

Thomas

 

[aliclarke86]

I agree I think with just those rummy's it looks fantastic if you crowd it you will lose the sense of scale

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[Alexander Belchenko]

For some unknown reason I can't see your nice pictures
Any idea why? Maybe you can ressurect at least some of them? Maybe flickr them?

 

[Lauris]

sorry, my photo upload service provider changed TOU and now no photos displays from there over the forums. I'll sort something..

 

[Lauris]

For some unknown reason I can't see your nice pictures
Any idea why? Maybe you can ressurect at least some of them? Maybe flickr them?

you can scroll down the album here: https://www.facebook.com/lauris.kar...582193261795037.147412.100000131061915&type=3

it was my Juwel125 tank (second tank I ever had). in the bottom there are few pics with Iwagumi setup (failed on me) lol