60P - The Shimmering of Light

[Crossocheilus]

ADA Manten stone, that's seriously expensive stuff...
Great composition with the wood, should be a really great scape once completed.

 

[The_Iceman]

Finally!

Feeling like a Little child on Christmas eve!
Picked the first 2 Stones out of the box:

They look absolutely amazing! Have 10kg to Play around with this evening! YAY \o/

Cheers,
Chris

 

[Greenfinger2]

Hi Ice, Nice Rock

 

[sonicninja]

Who thought we could get so excited by rock. Lovely set-up. Very jealous of the ADA LED

 

[The_Iceman]

Thanks guys

Sweating like hell... but finally... came up with something today:

Will add the mix of La Plata and Colorata sand tomorrow in the front + Power Sand and Soil.
Then it's time to get the Wabi Kusa placed

 

[Alexander Belchenko]

Great. Not sure why but I have a feeling you forgot to add one more stone at right side.
Also, if you want your soil to do not mix with sand, you'd better make sure there are no holes of significant size in your rock wall. You may put some plastic delimiter behind the wall, maybe.

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[The_Iceman]

Thanks Alexander.

I will follow your advice and put some plastic behind 1 or 2 stones...
The right side is so "low" on purpose, you will see it when the Soil is in the tank and plants are placed.

Cheers,
Chris

 

[Greenfinger2]

Hi Ice,Looking fab Looking forward to seeing the plants in

 

[The_Iceman]

Thank you Roy

I think I'm quite happy now with the sand-mix in the front area.
The stone on the left is quite dominant, but it will be covered with hydrocolyte soon... so let's hope the best

Cheers,
Chris

 

[Alexander Belchenko]

Wow, I like that sand. Very warm color.

Do you mean mix of La Plata and Colorado? Can you say which amount did you use? Just small bag of 2kg each?

 

[The_Iceman]

Thank you Alexander...

It's a 50:50 mix of LaPlata with Colorado.

Yepp, I bought the small 2KG bags... I have so much left... used only 40% of each bag and there's still a small amount of the mix which I didn't use.

Will make a close up tomorrow, I like the "shimmering" of the sand now in combination with the different colors of the stones...

 

[Greenfinger2]

Hi Ice, Very nice i love the sand and the contrasting colour of the rocks

 

[The_Iceman]

Getting closer...

Took me 2 1/2 hours today to arrange the PowerSand + Amazonia Soil ( and pick the little soil particles out of the sand ).
Will make some fine adjustments tomorrow and then it's time for "planting"

Cheers,
Chris

 

[razvaa]

Hi, I like the scape, is ... perfect in my opinion. It will be my inspiration
The wood is somehow ADA Branch Wood or Red Moor ?

 

[The_Iceman]

Thank you razvaa

It's just "regular" driftwood, but multiple pieces combined together.
Manzanita would have been nice... but unfortunately it's hard to get here in germany.

Attached the LED background 10 minutes ago:

Cheers,
Chris

 

[Greenfinger2]

Hi Ice, Love the back back lighting

 

[Janf]

Nice project! Can't wait to see what comes next

Regards,
André

 

[The_Iceman]

Good evening UKAPS,

what can I say... it's all coming together now!

Right after work, I started with arranging my Wabi Kusa!
Yepp... looks good!



A few minutes *cough* hours later the background and the middle area were finished!
Unfortunately I miscalculated the amount of parvula needed, so I have to get some more for the back and middle right area!





Everything else looks good so far:



Tomorrow it's time to plant the rest of the parvula and attach the moss to the driftwood.

For now... I say: Have a good night!




Cheers
Chris

 

[Greenfinger2]

Hi Ice, Wow this Aquascape is coming together fast the W-K have done very wellDid you keep one aside to grow on?
Looking forward to seeing how the W-K grow in to the scape

 

[The_Iceman]

Thank you guys...

Yepp Roy, a Little bit faster than expected... but hey...
Unfortunately not, but I already made another small WK ball and have some spare-stem-plants left... so I'm going to recreate another one, just for the window sill hehe...

Cheers,
Chris