charlie
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The new Inlet looks great, it really compliments the clean lines of the set up. It must be nice to finally get rid of the green eheim tubing 🙂
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A New Adventure (a jungle mess)
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Ian Holdich
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Cheers Stu, the glass is really well polished on these. It doesn't seem that they do a 13mm, I'm sure John from apfuk will read this.
Hi John, nice to hear from you! Thank you very much for the compliment. These set ups are great value for money. I'm sure you'd work magic on one of these.
Ian Holdich
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Thanks Charlie, it's great to get rid of the green tubing, it certainly makes the scape look different.
Nathaniel Whiteside
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Really Ian? Better than an influx X3 (17mm) ?
LondonDragon
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It sure does, they do look quality, now all I need is an open top tank!! 😉
thomas.bham
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Hi Ian.
Can you tell my if you still use TPN+? And how much do you dose it?
By the way your tank looks really good!
Can you tell my if you still use TPN+? And how much do you dose it?
By the way your tank looks really good!
Ian Holdich
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I'd say on par with the large x3, they are almost the same design, with the hole at the bottom. The glass seems to be polished better.
Haven't you ordered one yet! You know you want to Paulo!
Thanks Thomas!
I'm using TMC nutrafeed at the moment, only because I ran out of tpn+. They are much of a muchness tbh. They are also dosed the same. I'm using 6ml on this tank at the moment.
Alastair
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Really nice inlet mate. Bet you had a big sigh of relief when you stepped back and saw no green inlet lol.
Ian Holdich
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Sure did al! Here's a few pics without said green tube!
Right side of tank
image by Ian Holdich, on Flickr
Full tank
image by Ian Holdich, on Flickr
And a crypt that's taken it submersed form
image by Ian Holdich, on Flickr
Sorry for the pics, I'm sure your all bored of this tank by now lol.
Right side of tank
image by Ian Holdich, on Flickr
Full tank
image by Ian Holdich, on Flickr
And a crypt that's taken it submersed form
image by Ian Holdich, on Flickr
Sorry for the pics, I'm sure your all bored of this tank by now lol.
tim
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Keep the pics coming mate it's a top scape, looks the business with the glassware, do you always take your fish out for the photos though 🙂
Ian Holdich
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Thanks Tim! The barbs are really skittish, and am thinking of adding another small school of something to see if they bring them out a little more.
Your HC looks like really natural in the foreground. Beautiful scape
Thank you Andris, needs trimming at present, I'm trying to let it grow a little more wild at present.
George Farmer
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Looking really good mate. 🙂
I've been biting my tongue for a while now regarding the HC. I hope you don't mind my input...
For me it's a little too much of a contrast against the other planting. Please allow me to elaborate. 🙂
HC is really bright green, and it's tiny leaves makes it look flat/uniform (in photos, at least). This combination when set against the really naturalistic planting behind, and natural gravel in front makes the HC pop excessively to my eye.
I don't want to sound too harsh, and I suspect in the flesh the contrast is no way near as much. Our eyes automatically make adjustments that smoothen out contrasts that most cameras cannot. Another point is that we can't see much detail in the shadows where the HC stops, so the contrast is further exaggerated.
Perhaps I am being to impatient and when the HC fills-out more, the contrast may lessen. I'm just not sure if the colour will still be too at odds with the remaining planting, no matter how 'wild' it's allowed to evolve.
Another consideration would be to add another transition plant behind or amongst the HC. Some more Anubias between the HC and 'shadowy' area. The leaf shape compliments the HC, and the darker leaf colour helps to blend the HC better. Hairgrass planted amongst the HC may also work well.
Finally, in your 'defence', it's relatively easy to critique an excellent aquascape, as any single area for improvement, no matter how small, pops right out. And in this case it's the HC.
So please try to take this as compliment - because it really is already a superb aquascape with incredible potential.
Cheers,
George
I've been biting my tongue for a while now regarding the HC. I hope you don't mind my input...
For me it's a little too much of a contrast against the other planting. Please allow me to elaborate. 🙂
HC is really bright green, and it's tiny leaves makes it look flat/uniform (in photos, at least). This combination when set against the really naturalistic planting behind, and natural gravel in front makes the HC pop excessively to my eye.
I don't want to sound too harsh, and I suspect in the flesh the contrast is no way near as much. Our eyes automatically make adjustments that smoothen out contrasts that most cameras cannot. Another point is that we can't see much detail in the shadows where the HC stops, so the contrast is further exaggerated.
Perhaps I am being to impatient and when the HC fills-out more, the contrast may lessen. I'm just not sure if the colour will still be too at odds with the remaining planting, no matter how 'wild' it's allowed to evolve.
Another consideration would be to add another transition plant behind or amongst the HC. Some more Anubias between the HC and 'shadowy' area. The leaf shape compliments the HC, and the darker leaf colour helps to blend the HC better. Hairgrass planted amongst the HC may also work well.
Finally, in your 'defence', it's relatively easy to critique an excellent aquascape, as any single area for improvement, no matter how small, pops right out. And in this case it's the HC.
So please try to take this as compliment - because it really is already a superb aquascape with incredible potential.
Cheers,
George
Alastair
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Yeah.......massively bored of the pics mate. Awful 
The tank looks much bigger now the outlet has gone and as always cracking pics (probably not the right term when it comes to a glass Tank)
The tank looks much bigger now the outlet has gone and as always cracking pics (probably not the right term when it comes to a glass Tank)
Ian Holdich
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@ George, (I won't hit the reply button, long post), but thank you for the detailed reply. I know what you're saying, and I have thought about adding some crypt parva amongst the HC, but didnt want to make a mistake by doing so and ruining a HC Carpet. The constrats in the shadows is also a good spot on the pics. In real life the shadows don't seem to stand out as much, and there are various crypts there, which are not seeable on the pics. I'm gonna let the HC do it's own thing for a few weeks and see where it goes, I suppose I can just trim it back if it looks rubbish.
Thanks Alastair, thanks for not being bored of the pics lol!
Yeah.......massively bored of the pics mate. Awful
The tank looks much bigger now the outlet has gone and as always cracking pics (probably not the right term when it comes to a glass Tank)
Thanks Alastair, thanks for not being bored of the pics lol!
George Farmer
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Oh yeah, and never apologise for posting pics, especially when they are of such a high standard! 🙂
charlie
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Keep the pics coming. You have this tank at home every day to get bored of. Some of us have to switch the internet on to get a fix like this. Don't listen to George, what does he know 😉. I would let the hc grow for a bit longer and see what happens. Rome wasn't built in a day 🙂
more pics, more pics! 🙂
looks great with the new lily. Ive always liked mixing hairgrass in with HC but with talk about contrasts above you can lose it as its quite the same colour. I like the idea of some crypts in there as well as the anubias.
Ive got a bit of everything in the front of my 90cm, ammania, tennelus, ludwigia, HM, hairgrass. (to name but a few but I do like to mix it up 🙂 )
looks great with the new lily. Ive always liked mixing hairgrass in with HC but with talk about contrasts above you can lose it as its quite the same colour. I like the idea of some crypts in there as well as the anubias.
Ive got a bit of everything in the front of my 90cm, ammania, tennelus, ludwigia, HM, hairgrass. (to name but a few but I do like to mix it up 🙂 )
Ian Holdich
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I'm gonna get on it today, probably not to the extent that you have stu! And thank you stu. It's always good to get ideas from everyone, as sometimes we can't see our own mistakes as we're sat looking at it all day. Cheers mate.
viktorlantos
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Cheers Ian, the scape looks great!
On the glass stuff, i do like them too, but for your 2073 this is probably too small. Has only a few stripes where it pulls in the water, so you will loose a few hundred lph from your filter power as 2073 is around 1000lph
This stuff is good for a nano with a filter size around 400-600lph above that size you will see decreasing on the flow
On the glass stuff, i do like them too, but for your 2073 this is probably too small. Has only a few stripes where it pulls in the water, so you will loose a few hundred lph from your filter power as 2073 is around 1000lph
This stuff is good for a nano with a filter size around 400-600lph above that size you will see decreasing on the flow
