Ullalaaqua
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Tank: 22 liter Beta Line Nano 35 (25x25x35cm)
Light: ONF Flat Nano
Filter: Dennerle Scapers Flow
CO2: Co2Art Pro-se regulator with sodastream adapter
Soil: Tropica Aquarium soil and soil powder
Hardscape: Loa Rocks and redmoor wood
I’ve been a member in Ukaps for awhile but not very active. However this little voice in my head was pushing me to post a journal here about this little miracletank and it’s development from hightech to lowtech. The transformation was really surprising to me and I feel like it’s worth sharing
So this is where I started with this nanotank in Auqust 2020. As always, I didn’t really have a plan other than that I wanted to make a meadow. My daughter loves fairies so my goal was to make something fantacy-like. It was really fun glueing the redmoor wood pieces together and plan what plants I would use.
46 days old
Plants:
Glossostigma elatinoides
Eleocharis acicularis 'Mini'
Marsilea hirsuta
Hydrocotyle tripartita "Mini"
Bucephalandra Mini needle leaf
Bucephalandra ’Kedagang’
Riccardla sp. ’Chamedryfolla’
Bolbitis heteroclita ’difformis’
Juncus repens
Rotala H’ra
Rotala wallichii
Rotala green
Rotala nanjenshan
Rotala vietnam
Ludwigia palustris
So it was nice for awhile, but it didn’t work out as I wanted. I struggled with bad growth of glossostigma in the front and the background plants didn’t grow the way I had wished. On top of that Staghorn algae started to appear and my motivation dropped. In January I made the desision to change it a little...
The little change was a complite rescape where I dried up the old soil in the owen and mixed it up with ADA Amazonia powder. This was probably the best whimp I’ve ever had!
I removed everything
But I reused almost all of the old hardscape. I flipped the wood stump around and glued the roots on it.
The hardscape of the new layout. I loved it! In the front I used ADA Colorado sand. Behind there was the soil area.
Day 1
I went crazy with the plants and honestly have never enjoyed planting as much as I did with this one.
Plants:
Rotala sp wallichii
Rotala sp. Nanjenshan
Rotala sp. Vietnam
Rotala ’orange juice’
Rotala H’ra
Rotala ’green’
Ludwigia palustris
Hottonia palustris
Micranthemum sp. ’montecarlo’
Marsilea crenata
Marsilea hirsuta
Hydrocotyle verticillata
Bucephalandra brownie ghost
Bucephalandra ’needle leaf’
Bucephalandra ’kedagang’
Bucephalandra ’arctica’
Riccardia chamedryfolia
Fissidens fontanus
At first CO2 run slowly 24/7 for maybe 2 weeks
Then my CO2 run out and I was too busy to get refill so I let it be without.
3 months without CO2
Accotional pearling. Not related to waterchanges. Apparently they use bicarbonate from the watercolumn for photosythesis too.
Latest photo of it. Shure, the colors would be stronger with CO2. But this tank runs with autopilot now. I do 50% waterchange every week and the lights are on more or less 1Not much algae except the Staghorn that desided to visit again. It’s well balanced otherwise and the crystalshrimp colony just breeded in it. I really love it as it is
Light: ONF Flat Nano
Filter: Dennerle Scapers Flow
CO2: Co2Art Pro-se regulator with sodastream adapter
Soil: Tropica Aquarium soil and soil powder
Hardscape: Loa Rocks and redmoor wood
I’ve been a member in Ukaps for awhile but not very active. However this little voice in my head was pushing me to post a journal here about this little miracletank and it’s development from hightech to lowtech. The transformation was really surprising to me and I feel like it’s worth sharing
So this is where I started with this nanotank in Auqust 2020. As always, I didn’t really have a plan other than that I wanted to make a meadow. My daughter loves fairies so my goal was to make something fantacy-like. It was really fun glueing the redmoor wood pieces together and plan what plants I would use.
46 days old
Plants:
Glossostigma elatinoides
Eleocharis acicularis 'Mini'
Marsilea hirsuta
Hydrocotyle tripartita "Mini"
Bucephalandra Mini needle leaf
Bucephalandra ’Kedagang’
Riccardla sp. ’Chamedryfolla’
Bolbitis heteroclita ’difformis’
Juncus repens
Rotala H’ra
Rotala wallichii
Rotala green
Rotala nanjenshan
Rotala vietnam
Ludwigia palustris
So it was nice for awhile, but it didn’t work out as I wanted. I struggled with bad growth of glossostigma in the front and the background plants didn’t grow the way I had wished. On top of that Staghorn algae started to appear and my motivation dropped. In January I made the desision to change it a little...
The little change was a complite rescape where I dried up the old soil in the owen and mixed it up with ADA Amazonia powder. This was probably the best whimp I’ve ever had!
I removed everything
But I reused almost all of the old hardscape. I flipped the wood stump around and glued the roots on it.
The hardscape of the new layout. I loved it! In the front I used ADA Colorado sand. Behind there was the soil area.
Day 1
I went crazy with the plants and honestly have never enjoyed planting as much as I did with this one.
Plants:
Rotala sp wallichii
Rotala sp. Nanjenshan
Rotala sp. Vietnam
Rotala ’orange juice’
Rotala H’ra
Rotala ’green’
Ludwigia palustris
Hottonia palustris
Micranthemum sp. ’montecarlo’
Marsilea crenata
Marsilea hirsuta
Hydrocotyle verticillata
Bucephalandra brownie ghost
Bucephalandra ’needle leaf’
Bucephalandra ’kedagang’
Bucephalandra ’arctica’
Riccardia chamedryfolia
Fissidens fontanus
At first CO2 run slowly 24/7 for maybe 2 weeks
Then my CO2 run out and I was too busy to get refill so I let it be without.
Accotional pearling. Not related to waterchanges. Apparently they use bicarbonate from the watercolumn for photosythesis too.
Latest photo of it. Shure, the colors would be stronger with CO2. But this tank runs with autopilot now. I do 50% waterchange every week and the lights are on more or less 1Not much algae except the Staghorn that desided to visit again. It’s well balanced otherwise and the crystalshrimp colony just breeded in it. I really love it as it is