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Cliff of Spirits

Joao Marujo

Joao Marujo

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Setúbal (Portugal)
Hello!

After being a regular reader of this forum, here is my first journal! :) In the last few months, i was willing to try a two different substrate setup for the first time but never had the chance and these rocks were an old love and never had the opportunity to try them...until now! :D

Specifications:

Tank - 60x30x30 (54L)
Lighting - 2x24W T5 (Osram Lumilux Skywhite - 8000K )
CO2 - 2Kg FE, Aquaristic reg with solenoid and ADA Pollen Glass Type 3 Diffuser (added yesterday. I had one from aquili for the first 4 days)
Filter - EHEIM CLASSIC 2213 PLUS (previous established)
Substrate - ADA Amazonia and white sand
Heater - Jager 50W
Ferts - Eco.Grow+ (Micros e Macros) by Ecoarium (Estimative Index)
Hardscape - Spirit Stone (10kg)
Plants - Blyxas Japonicas, Eleocharis sp. Mini,"Weeping" Moss and Marsilea Crenata
Fauna - 4 boraras brigittae (the remaining ones from a 15 shoal...the others simply became bungee jumpers! lol), 1 SAE, 5 Ottocinclus Affinis and 4 Caridina Japonica. A Hyphessobrycon Amandae shoal will be added in the next weeks

Hardscape in place!

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Planting time!
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After the flood!
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Hope you like it as much as i do!;)
 
Wow I love that stone.:) nice shot of the fish too. I'm thinking of down sizing and doing a rock scape next, but it fall on deaf ears Its like I'm sat talking to the tank most of the time when I'm blarting out my ideas. But she does agree less is more.....scape wise.:) I could see our cbs back sliding up and down that rock ( we have one I call micheal as walks backwards a lot and started off black colour now he's turned more chocolate.) not sure if I could keep the chemistry right with rocks though. Nice job you've done.
 
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I've just been trying to find some of that rock on ebay. Spirit stone,Is that they only name for it?
 
Hope you don't mind me sharing but it reminds me of one of my favourite places... The gower.
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Port onion Swansea. It's no onion I just can't spell. Noooooo before anyone asks I'm not going to be sitting on the bay in the dark with a hammer a balster:)
 
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I live in Tewkesbury,it's our stop off to or from my parents who live in redroses camarthenshire. They have their very own weather in the gower. I highly recommend it to all scapers for inspiration.
 
Just came back for another look at the stonework and noticed the marselia quadrifolia.? Love that plant. Just noticed it was on your list too missed it earlier too busy drooling at the rocks.:)
 
Thanks you for your replies! :)

About the rocks, spirit stone is the name that its known here. I went to aquaessetials site and, despite the image in the baltic rock seems similar, in the discription it says that is its known as Manten Stone and that i have seen it and its different from mine.

kirk, its marsilea crenata and not marsilea quadifolia. You can check it in tropica site: http://www.tropica.com/en/plants/plantdescription.aspx?pid=010B
 
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