Sammy Islam
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Stunning, love this tankgreat job
Thanks guys! Finally coming together, really happy with it at the moment! Really hoping the MC grows this time! I'll leave you with another photo of my beast! 😉🤣
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Channelling my inner Filipe - Christmas Corys
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Thanks guys! Finally coming together, really happy with it at the moment! Really hoping the MC grows this time! I'll leave you with another photo of my beast! 😉🤣
Looking really good 👍
but seems to be coming together really well looks super healthy.
Sammy Islam
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Thanks Tim 👍
Cheers, I am determined to succeed in growing MC in my gravel edge. I think i've tried 6 times now, but this time seems to be growing! Fingers crossed 🤞Looks excellent mate, i always struggled with s repens and also monte carlo aswelbut seems to be coming together really well looks super healthy.
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Sammy Islam
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Yup end of the previous page 👍
Looks great and can really see and feel the inspiration in the tank, great job 
Sammy Islam
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Thanks Ady, I'm really loving it! 😀Looks great and can really see and feel the inspiration in the tank, great job
Sammy Islam
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Really plased with how the p.helferi is doing! This use to be my nemesis plant, but it has bounced back and looking crinkley 😀 now i have to figure out the s.repens, but I've tried most things already so a little stumped.
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Karmicnull
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Fabulous tank - really inspiring and love the GBR too!
Sammy Islam
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Thanks! Love my GBR too, i was looking at my old post when i got him and it's crazy how much he's grown and coloured up.
I'm glad it's going well and i plan to keep the scape for a long time so will see how it does on a long term basis.
Sammy Islam
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I've been looking through my old photos recently and can't believe how much everything has grown 🤯. It's kind of funny (in a weird way) looking back on the early photos, especially looking at the little trident ferns. They are probably 25x bigger now, i don't think i've ever trimmed them 😀. The H.pinnatifida has gone crazy, it's actually holding my hardscape together now 🤣. I kind of hate that you can't see much of the rocks anymore, something i hadn't considered. 🤔
Sammy Islam
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I rarely clean the rocks and wood anymore, mainly because i can barely see any rock. The wood is pretty flexible so i tend not to clean often, if i get bba on the wood luckily nearly all the wood can be exposed during a water change and i can drip some easy carbo om the effected areas.
On the detritus front i'm quite aggressive, i put my hands through the trident ferns to get any detritus in to the water column and try rip out old leaves from underneath. I wave my hands aggressively everywhere and try get the trapped crap out from the tight spaces. Then i do big water changes, probably 85% once a week.
Steve Buce
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Love how this has grown in, really nice looking tank
Sammy Islam
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Thanks it's going well. Think it's probably coming up to 11months now. 😀
I love the last photo, with the gladiatorial Ram prowling around his very own Collosseum.... 'Are you not entertained?' I hear him cry!
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Sammy Islam
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Haha! He is the boss now!
Sammy Islam
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Quick update.....
Thing are still going well, still trying to figure out the weird daily rotala colour change. I have increased FE and MG as they are more likely to be the reason than macros (i hope).
I have also decreased CO2 (wish me luck 🤣) as i have noticed my male ram has started hiding for the 1st half of the photoperiod, and my "red robin" gourami have looked sluggish and breathing really slowly.
Just trimmed and replanted half the rotala on sunday as i had been trimming for shape recently and got to the point where they needed to be trimmed short.
I have been considering getting a group of small corys, i miss keeping them and would really love like 6 or 8 maybe julii?. But i've always talked myself out of it because i feel like the sand area isn't big enough, even though they swim about everywhere in general. What do you think? Yes or no? 🤔🤔🤔
Thing are still going well, still trying to figure out the weird daily rotala colour change. I have increased FE and MG as they are more likely to be the reason than macros (i hope).
I have also decreased CO2 (wish me luck 🤣) as i have noticed my male ram has started hiding for the 1st half of the photoperiod, and my "red robin" gourami have looked sluggish and breathing really slowly.
Just trimmed and replanted half the rotala on sunday as i had been trimming for shape recently and got to the point where they needed to be trimmed short.
I have been considering getting a group of small corys, i miss keeping them and would really love like 6 or 8 maybe julii?. But i've always talked myself out of it because i feel like the sand area isn't big enough, even though they swim about everywhere in general. What do you think? Yes or no? 🤔🤔🤔
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