90 cm fresh start. Thread finished.

[tim]

Does that work?

For comparison same rock after 15mins picking and brushing this morning

The bba tufts come away easily with the algae picker from apfuk syphon hose in other hand for instant removal will take a few sessions to work my way round all the rocks plus dragonstone is a pita due to all the little crevices but all in all looks much better and no need for liquid carbon which pleases me.

 

[tim]

Been a month of scrubbing for this one the hard scape is looking cleaner few bba tufts still hanging in there, three water changes a week, got a spare atomiser and religiously swap them on filter clean fortnightly, plants are healthy enough could do with a trim little bit of staghorn type algae on the java fern so I'm still tweaking co2/ light intensity balance, bba isn't growing back quickly so maybe I'm getting somewhere.

Cheers for looking

 

[scrud]

looking very nice, I like it.

 

[Lindy]

It's grown in great!

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[tim]

looking very nice, I like it.

Thanks scrud

It's grown in great!

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Thanks lindy, still got a lot of growing to do back left and right of the tank, still need to work on getting the best out of stems takes about a month for them to grow back after a trim on the plus side blyxa has gone nuts throwing up little flower stems too

 

[harper]

Looking good, very impressed!

 

[martinmjr62]

Filling out nicely mate,nice to see the dreaded BBA on the decline, must update my threads and get over to see you

Cheers
Martin

 

[tim]

Looking good, very impressed!

Cheers Harper

Filling out nicely mate,nice to see the dreaded BBA on the decline, must update my threads and get over to see you

Cheers
Martin

cheers Martin, be good to catch up mate.

 

[tim]

Few pics just for the sake of practice

Blyxa gone a bit mental

New plant ludwigia sp

Poor fts

 

[aliclarke86]

Wow the blyxa really has gone mental!!! Time for some thinning I'd say

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[LondonDragon]

Excelent tim looks like you winning the battle you need to post a higher res photo keep it up

 

[tim]

Wow the blyxa really has gone mental!!! Time for some thinning I'd say

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Indeed it does mate will be thinning it out in the next couple of weeks

Excelent tim looks like you winning the battle you need to post a higher res photo keep it up

Thanks paulo, struggling to take a decent image of it to be honest, maybe needs more light over the tank, will keep practicing

 

[tim]

Big trim over the weekend also thought I'd use this setup to try a few different things before I finally decide to rescape this.
Path added not sure if I like it or not see how it looks with a month of growth.

Maybe add some moss stones to soften it up a little.
All comments/ opinions welcome.

 

[Greenfinger2]

Hi tim, I like this Super planting

 

[tim]

This has also been suffering a few distribution issues so I've switched the in/outlets back to the sides, seeing a bit more movement in the stems so see how it goes in a couple of weeks, don't want to uproot and separate the blyxa until I'm around more for wc changes.

 

[aliclarke86]

Path is looking really nice mate. Good sruff

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[tim]

Path is looking really nice mate. Good sruff

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Thanks Ali, once the stems fill in at the back again I think I may well be done with this scape

 

[Alastair]

I think the valley youve chose is a perfect. What a transformation from the initial start of this journal also.
I hope you dont let the stems get too high as the java fern is a lovely focal point and helps give this scap the illusion that the path drops down beyond what we see.
Your skills seriously have grown so much since you started. Clearly you had a hidden talent that was waiting to come out. Well done tim.

 

[tim]

I think the valley youve chose is a perfect. What a transformation from the initial start of this journal also.
I hope you dont let the stems get too high as the java fern is a lovely focal point and helps give this scap the illusion that the path drops down beyond what we see.
Your skills seriously have grown so much since you started. Clearly you had a hidden talent that was waiting to come out. Well done tim.

Thank you Al, such kind coments, it's taken me a long time to get to grips with running a larger tank ( compared to yours still a nano ) I'm hoping to move on to another scape around May, big chunky bog wood and big chunky plants ( crypts, swords and the microsorum you see here ) hopefully I'll get a decent final image of this one before it comes down.

 

[tim]

Tanks lacking a bit of tlc at the moment got some staghorn on the leaves of the slower growers, bga between the front glass and substrate which I'm using a credit card to remove whilst siphoning it out, thinned out and replanted the blyxa and a good trim of the stems, starting to feel I've learnt enough from this layout (rescape on the cards soon )

Thanks for looking.