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A forest unnamed - Fluval F35

A large water change, some replanting and removal of brown leaves... And this is the result...

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A few more snaps from earlier including what's inside the cabinet.

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Seriously considering a complete tear down and restart on this tank... Everything just isn't coming together as I envisaged.
 
Tearing down such a small tank can be a good thing, moving water around is a chore , but you get to rebuild and improve with a new scape. Even if you limit yourself to reusing existing materials - the end result is certain to be better than the previous. You'll be happy with the new creation for a day or two.... ;)
 
Have RO unit :) so happy especially as it was a complete surprise from a good friend.

Who says Christmas doesn't come early...

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Looks like the same unit I have.

Probably one of the best purchases I have made.

Yip, RO unit is a must have for any aquarist IMO. My last system was a 8 stage monster I just slowly built up, wife wasn't so impressed when it took up its own cupboard in the kitchen :)


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Yip, RO unit is a must have for any aquarist IMO. My last system was a 8 stage monster I just slowly built up, wife wasn't so impressed when it took up its own cupboard in the kitchen :)

I can imagine! :D

Mine is tucked away in a cupboard in the conservatory so I get no grief from the wife. Well almost. The other night I forgot to turn it off and went to bed. Woke up in the morning to a very wet floor! D'oh!
 
Ha ha, I can relate (as I'm sure everybody on here can) - I've flooded the kitchen a few times ;)

You can't call yourself an aquarist until you've flooded something - and a DSM setup doesn't count :D


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Still haven't got the RO unit setup but opted to brighten up the tank and ditched the black background.

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And you will notice that I've pretty much lost all the HC, pretty sure the lack of CO2 was the cause. But I did see the guppys uprooting the HC and hair grass.


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Kind of like it from this angle... Otherwise it's pretty terrible, seriously considering a tear down and a rescape next weekend.

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Haven't updated this thread for awhile but here are some snapshots of the tank in its current form. Really just a mishmash of stuff now really. Running CO2 and ferts with weekly 50% water changes. Also been dosing liquid carbon which seems to have eradicated the BBA which appeared after I had CO2 issues. I also dropped the lighting by adding a sheet of frosted vinyl to the LED unit. Plants lower down might be suffering but overall everything appears balanced at this stage.

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