Re: GA in-store display 120P Iwagumi
twg said:
The white backing really makes this scape quite magical.
thanks mate
yup looks like in most of the time when you do not have background plants white looks much better.
Antoni said:
Just love it, Victor! Good luck on the IAPLC
thanks my friend
greenjar said:
I love the pictures of you feeding the shrimp 🙂
cheers
😉 they looks very hungry all the time. in the past i only had 10-20 shrimps in a large tank like this, but they work slowly then and most of the time you just can't see them because they're hiding or working somewhere which is not visible from the front glass.
in the gallery we're using much more amanos in the large tanks. especially in this iwagumi we still have around 80 now. they sounds a lot, but they spread well in 240 liter. so this not distracting the aquascape. but this much of shrimps do a hell lot of work. more than a maintenance guy could do in every 2-3 days
as the tank ran out of algae they accept everything. we're feeding with mosura pellets because of the crs shrimps.
Barbapappa said:
Very nice looking scape and awesome to see it coming together so fast!
But, what I am really in love with is three of those 30 l cubes with a different scape standing next to each other! That looks so awesome!! I am going to copy that idea from you
thanks mate
😉 yeah the only thing to watch out is to divide a pressuruzed CO2 into 3 tanks. that gives most of the headaches to us on those tanks.
George Farmer said:
Great job, Viktor!
Do the rocks need cleaning, or do the shrimp keep them spotless?
Thank you George.
This is amazing but we never had to clean the stones in this tank form the beginning. The tank is 3 months old approx now. No beard, no spot there. We had some hair algae on this as the amanos picked up the hair from the carpet quicker, but later they cleaned the stones too. i also had lot of problems with stones because of the spots, beards in the past so this is kind of a miracle
😉
i think the mixture of the elements keep it clean. dual filter (2x2075), ADA ferts, full cold RO water (around 18 celsius), tank also on a low temp around 22-24. light is lifted up a bit, now around 20-30cm with 4 tubes. and of course the 80-100 amanos they do a hell lot of work really.
in the past we had frequent water changes, but nowadays we're on a weekly WC (30%)
George Farmer said:
Will you be pruning the HC down at the substrate near the glass, so it's not growing up against the glass? This improves the sense of depth, as I'm sure you know.
yup i learned the lesson here. thanks George
😉 this gave an amazing look on Mark's tank too. i planned to use it as i would not like to trim the full carpet before the shooting. (takes 3 weeks to be in a good shape again).
George Farmer said:
thanks my friend, i do not count on a good position (the scape looks too simple and minimalistic) but it's a game. good to be there with all the scapers worldwide.
one of our other tank has much better chances.
😉
Garuf said:
Are you dosing your own ferts on these, Viktor? How many pumps are they per tank size? Breath taking quality, as always, I'm truly envious.
thanks my friend
😉
we're using our own on most of the tank except 2 tanks. this is the one and the other is a shady ADA scape with ferns. on these tank we're using ADA ferts. Brighty K and Step 2. also adding easy carbo daily as an additional source of carbon to the CO2.
for 240 liter we're using 12-12 pumps from ADA.
but we're adding the same ammount from the ei mixed ferts on the other tanks.
