Smells Fishy
Member
It's finally happening, seems like this idea came out of nowhere, in fact the idea started to form in my head after reading the Charlie Chi journal. That gave me the nano bug. My inspiration is centered around how this journal turned out https://www.ukaps.org/forum/threads/nano-riparium-formerly-betta-biotope.10598/. One real draw to doing a riparium is that I get to mix 2 of my hobbies together, fish keeping and house plants. One of my other hobbies I get to incorporate in to this scape is beachcombing. I've been collecting a particular kind of rock for a few years now from massive (like wtf would you carry that all the way back from the beach!) to big and small so it's going to be used for sure. All ready for some picked out.
For those of you who don't know I did do another journal over a year ago. At the time I was a hardcore fancy goldfish keeper, paranoid about SBD so I soaked my pellets before feeding, used a goldfish forum etc. I got to the stage I tried out a planted tank with them. It wasn't anything fancy like with a planted substrate just a decent amount of plants and character fish + 1 snail. That's what the journal entailed. In the end I got fed up of every few days getting my hands in the tank to remove the munched on parts of the plants. I must have wasted about £30-£40 on cabomba and elodea, even with all the cuttings I would take it wasn't enough to keep up with making the tank look nice all the time. It would look good for a few days at most before the fish took back control of the tank layout. Even my "bulletproof" Anubias plants had holes and rips on there leaves. I stopped wasting my money on ferts and plants and ended that chapter in fishkeeping for me. This was around the time my life was turned upside down by having my newborn to look after, so I'm sure you can understand why I gave up. There's someone on here who showed off his amazingly planted fancy goldfish tank and I'm adamant it only looked that way for the pictures. I would go as far to say that maintaining a nice planted tank with goldfish is impossible long term, unless you like seeing your plants torn to bits and constantly rearranging your scape.
I'm pretty embarrassed that I even attempted such a thing and that it was one of my only contributions to this site where I actually showed something off. Wish I just did what a lot of you do, come in newly registered with Ada tank, co2, the works. Well I haven't got the money for that set up, I'm stint most of the time so not my style man. Here's what I'm packing.
Fauna - more on that later
Tank - Dennerle Nano 30L
Substrate - Tropica Aquarium Soil
Ferts - undecided
Co2 - Dennerle Nano Carbon Elixir Bio
Light - Aquael Leddy Smart Plant
Heater - Aquael Easy Heater 25w
Filtration - Aquael VersaMax FZN1
Plant List
All I'm saying is crypts, to be continued
It's pay day tomorrow so a chunk of the list will be ticked off.
Like the title says this is going to be a real adventure, especially for me.
Cheers.
For those of you who don't know I did do another journal over a year ago. At the time I was a hardcore fancy goldfish keeper, paranoid about SBD so I soaked my pellets before feeding, used a goldfish forum etc. I got to the stage I tried out a planted tank with them. It wasn't anything fancy like with a planted substrate just a decent amount of plants and character fish + 1 snail. That's what the journal entailed. In the end I got fed up of every few days getting my hands in the tank to remove the munched on parts of the plants. I must have wasted about £30-£40 on cabomba and elodea, even with all the cuttings I would take it wasn't enough to keep up with making the tank look nice all the time. It would look good for a few days at most before the fish took back control of the tank layout. Even my "bulletproof" Anubias plants had holes and rips on there leaves. I stopped wasting my money on ferts and plants and ended that chapter in fishkeeping for me. This was around the time my life was turned upside down by having my newborn to look after, so I'm sure you can understand why I gave up. There's someone on here who showed off his amazingly planted fancy goldfish tank and I'm adamant it only looked that way for the pictures. I would go as far to say that maintaining a nice planted tank with goldfish is impossible long term, unless you like seeing your plants torn to bits and constantly rearranging your scape.
I'm pretty embarrassed that I even attempted such a thing and that it was one of my only contributions to this site where I actually showed something off. Wish I just did what a lot of you do, come in newly registered with Ada tank, co2, the works. Well I haven't got the money for that set up, I'm stint most of the time so not my style man. Here's what I'm packing.
Fauna - more on that later
Tank - Dennerle Nano 30L
Substrate - Tropica Aquarium Soil
Ferts - undecided
Co2 - Dennerle Nano Carbon Elixir Bio
Light - Aquael Leddy Smart Plant
Heater - Aquael Easy Heater 25w
Filtration - Aquael VersaMax FZN1
Plant List
All I'm saying is crypts, to be continued
It's pay day tomorrow so a chunk of the list will be ticked off.
Like the title says this is going to be a real adventure, especially for me.
Cheers.
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