Following a recent visit to Horizon Aquatics, I spotted a really nice shrimp scape set up in their nano room, a dennerle 20l; so I was inspired to get one.
Started up at the beginning of December, I wanted to have height in this tank, as it's something I always struggled to achieve before in nano cubes. I decided to use lava rock for the first time, and I wish I'd done it sooner.
For anyone that hasn't tried it, it's one of the best hardscape materials I have used, for the following reasons:
Aside from my new found love of lava rock, I used tropica soil as the substrate.
Other equipment includes:
Livestock:
- Cherry shrimp (various grades)
Plants:
It's been a trial and error approach so far, with a few emptied times in between, or plants chopped and changed. Definitely in the last week or so, it feels that it's bedding in, but you can see from the current update image that there is still algae prevalent, which I'm tackling.
Beginning
Rough early stages
Current state
Started up at the beginning of December, I wanted to have height in this tank, as it's something I always struggled to achieve before in nano cubes. I decided to use lava rock for the first time, and I wish I'd done it sooner.
For anyone that hasn't tried it, it's one of the best hardscape materials I have used, for the following reasons:
- looks fantastic, with textured detail
- incredibly light, no fear of breaking the tank if you displace it generally speaking.
- rough texture makes it super easy to stack, it really grips well without glue etc
- porous properties are superb for bacterial colonisation.
- ideal for epiphyte plants to grip onto, again oweing to the rough texture.
Aside from my new found love of lava rock, I used tropica soil as the substrate.
Other equipment includes:
- Flexi Mini Led
- Dennerle Corner Filter with baby shrimp guard
- DIY co2 generator (AliExpress) at 1 bubble every 8/9 seconds.
- aquario Neo (tiny) curved co2 diffuser.
Livestock:
- Cherry shrimp (various grades)
Plants:
- Monte Carlo
- staurogyne repens
- pogostemon helferi
- blyxa japonica
- myriophyllum
- salvinia natans
It's been a trial and error approach so far, with a few emptied times in between, or plants chopped and changed. Definitely in the last week or so, it feels that it's bedding in, but you can see from the current update image that there is still algae prevalent, which I'm tackling.
Beginning
Rough early stages
Current state
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