George's One-Pot Iwagumi Challenge

[George Farmer]

Thanks mate. Yes, purple harlequins is a good choice and I've never had them before. I'll keep an eye out. 🙂

 

[Ian Holdich]

Nooooo, they're the devils fish and Crawford will never let you live it down, ask Stu!


Looking good btw George!

 

[George Farmer]

Lol. Why is that then?

 

[aliclarke86]

Yes please share

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[Ian Holdich]

Lol. Why is that then?

They're a good old colour morph...Crawford hates them, every time we meet up he takes the mick out of Stu for using them.

 

[Brian Murphy]

Looking well as always 🙂 (the scape that is)

 

[George Farmer]

They're a good old colour morph...Crawford hates them, every time we meet up he takes the mick out of Stu for using them.

One word for Dan. Discus. 😀

 

[George Farmer]

Hi all,

A couple of weeks since initial planting, and one week since flooding, and all is well. 🙂



The fish have been re-homed and I've added 20 or so CRS from my breeding tank.








There's no sign of algae (yet...) and the plants are carpeting nicely.

 

[sa80mark]

Its not even grown yet but I cant tell you how much I wish it was in my living room 🙂

 

[TOO]

This looks great. Nice with some asymmetry, finally 🙂.

I see you have gone away from the spraybars. Any particular reason?

Thomas

 

[Lee Sweeting]

Looks great George! I love the hardscape, really looking forward to seeing this fill in. 🙂

 

[aliclarke86]

Did you get any melt on the emesed growth?

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[Pedro Rosa]

Stone arrangement is perfect. That focal point stone with a slightly white was maybe a small risk but turned out great 🙂
Photos are beautiful, but that's just usual 😀
Watching with great interest that Elatine growing.

 

[George Farmer]

Thanks guys! 🙂

This looks great. Nice with some asymmetry, finally 🙂.

I see you have gone away from the spraybars. Any particular reason?

Thomas

Yeah, when I created this layout my priority was to avoid any triangles and symmetry in fear of your retribution, Thomas. 🙂

No particular reason for lily over spray bar, other than lily is easier to install and clean. I'm not sure what difference they'd make in this layout in terms of circulation. Anyway, the lily seems to be working out fine so far...

Did you get any melt on the emesed growth?

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No die-off whatsoever. 🙂

Stone arrangement is perfect. That focal point stone with a slightly white was maybe a small risk but turned out great 🙂
Photos are beautiful, but that's just usual 😀
Watching with great interest that Elatine growing.

Thanks! 🙂

I think, as discussed earlier, it's not actually an Elatine, but a Micranthemum. But yes, I'm very excited about this plant. I think I will be able to create a good sense of depth with it by letting it grow thicker between the rocks and in the background. 🙂

 

[TOO]

Yeah, when I created this layout my priority was to avoid any triangles and symmetry in fear of your retribution, Thomas. 🙂

I knew the pressure would eventually pay off 🙂. No, seriously, this is really good, you have a good hand with stone and iwagumi.

There seems to be a bit of confusion around this plant. Is this the one known also as Montecarlo 3? I have just ordered this myself and was pleased to see how tiny the leaves are - almost comparable with HC as far as I can tell.

Thomas

 

[Emyr]

The dimensions and depth of the tank add such a new quality and element to an iwagumi scape like this, each angle looks completely different and makes a simple layout more complex and intricate. Really nice, informative and useful as always.

 

[Curvball]

Impressive as usual George - well done.


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[George Farmer]

Thanks guys! 🙂

Hopefully between weekend chores I'll be able to squeeze in some video to share. The shrimp are so active, even with CO2. 🙂

 

[Martin in Holland]

every time I watch one of your tanks I get more and more green with envy ....

 

[Deano3]

looks great so far and growing in nicely, love the large rock with the white face really sets the scape off, glad you now have some live stock in there looking forward to vid

Dean