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Bonsai Mountain Scape

Got a wee delivery from Poland today
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Looks good

How do you turn these loose stones into the hardscape you bought? You just have to work it out or what?

Yup, stone jigsaw puzzle, but tbh i wasn't totally happy with the scape they produced and want to change it up a bit but i did like the stones and am happy with them now they've arrived.

Now the challenge of creating something that looks good and not just a few stones thrown together...
 

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1 week in

Current plant list is:

Rotala sp green
Rotala Colorata
Rotala Vietnam H'ra
Limnophila Hippuridoides
Blyxa Japonica
Staurogyne Repens
Alternanthera Reineckii Mini
Fissidens Fontanus

HC still to be added and deciding whether I'm going to add moss or riccardia to the rock or not

Excuse the ugly outlet it's only temporary
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While this tank cycles and settles in I thought it would be a good idea to get my EI dosing sorted, I prefer to try and learn 'why' than just blindly follow, it will mean a few bumps along the way but I'll hopefully have a better understanding down the line

Here are my EI calculations (overthinking I know but I'd rather that than just dose heavy and wonder why later). I've not worked out micro mix individual ppm yet but will do later

85L tank is high tech, CO2 and high light
35L tanks (x2) one will be low tech and the other will be liquid co2
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That's kind of the idea behind EI, dose high and waterchange. I am afraid you are overthinking and we have learned overthinking leads to problems sadlyo_O

and that's exactly what i'm planning on doing (as per the dosing), nothing wrong with trying to understand it and tailor to my tanks if i'm willing to put in the effort ;)

all i've done is taken the recommended 'heavy' target ppm per week and tailor the EI mix to meet that, teach a man to fish and all that....

if theres something glaringly wrong with my thinking and dose it would be great to hear peoples thoughts so i can understand more :thumbup:
 
Sorted my Ferts and I've stopped overcomplcating things so I'm dosing as per the link above

Updates are, fighting a diatom battle at the minute and planted some HC 8 days ago and my carpet nemesis is struggling with adapting to under water life and is dying off, hoping for a bounce back in the next week or 2

CO2 is lime green for lights on at around 3bps and I've been on a reduced 5 hour photo period to control diatoms with the twinstar 600s at only 25%

8 days ago just after planting HC
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Today
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Hc is OK, just in adaptation phase...I'm more worried about your fissidens...seems burned?

Are you using liquid carbon or dosing too much iron maybe?

Otherwise I really like your rocks, nice scape!
 
Hc is OK, just in adaptation phase...I'm more worried about your fissidens...seems burned?

Are you using liquid carbon or dosing too much iron maybe?

Otherwise I really like your rocks, nice scape!

Thanks mate, not quite happy at the minute but will hopefully turn out OK once it's grown in and matured

Fissidens is just covered in diatoms, going to do a heavy trim at the weekend

Dosing 2ml LC daily and iron is approx 0.7ppm a week
 
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