Last day of my break so the tanks had to be moved today! Ive probobly moved those rock one to many times now and could have gone on playing rocks forever. After settling for the following scape -
I took the scissors to The HC in the existing scape and trimmed and replanted, and planted, and planted, and planted, and planted ........ .. .. . .
Never planted HC stem by stem before .... it was a long old process thats for sure. Started last night, filled the tank with enough water to cover the subatrate and went to bed. Started again first thing this morning planting more HC stems. Once I thouhgt Id planted enough stems I started to break down the other tank.
It was always going to be a long day -
The water that had sat in the tank whilst planting the HC was syphoned of and Once the tank was is position I filled it with 50% from the old tank and 50% Dechlorinated tap water.
It was quite amazing just how much hair grass had grown from the few stems I planted !!
There was loads Of HC too, the top of it looked great but underneath was brown and dead as it had never been trimmed.
Where did all that HM come from, I think I only bought one pot!
I knew the external and the Co2 bottle werent going to fit in the cabinet but at the last minute decided that the filter would go beside the tank with the gas bottle inside. This made piping the filter a lot simpler.
The tank looks sooooo empty..... I must admit im a little bit scared about the low plant biomass I usually plant heavy from the start. The whole base is dotted with HC stems and ive added a few blyxa stems. Dosed with 5 ml flourish excel (initial dose) and 1.5 ml TPN+ ( will dose both daily)
Aaaaaaaaand relax .....zzzzz zzzz zzz z