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Green Cave

mixalis1708

Seedling
Joined
20 Apr 2018
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Location
greece
Hello to everyone here!

My first post on this forum.. Τhis is my aquarium, it's about 4 months old and I still make changes to improve the scape. All the materials used to create this scape have been taken from the Greek nature after a time-consuming process for their selection and control of their suitability for safe placement in an aquarium.

Feel free to make observations about possible improvements that can be made.

Final Hardscape

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Title: Green Cave
Dimensions: 80*40*40cm
CO2: 1 per second
Filtration: cristal profi jbl
Lights: 2*chihiros A801
Photo Period: From 10am to 17pm
Fertilisation: Tropica Plant Growth Specialised
Substrate: Tropica Powder Soil / cosmetic Sand
Hardscape: Rocks and woods from Greek nature
Flora:Eleocharis acicularis Mini
Hygrophila pinnatifida
Micranthemum Monte Carlo
Rotala Vietnam H'ra
Bucephalandra sp. Red
Vesicularia dubyana Christmas
Anubias Petite
Ranunculus inundatus
Fauna:
Hemigrammus erythrozonus, Amano shrimp, Nerite snails

Additional photos:

planting
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2 months later
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3 months later
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Firstly, What a lovely amazing tank, and it's great that you looked in nature to build it, that really warms my heart Mixalis, secondly a constructive criticism seeing as you asked for it, i love the hardscape more than the actual planted layout, it would have been nice if all the smaller nuanced details you laboured over didn't get lost in the moss, once again amazing tank mate, and i love the wabi-kusa bowl too, can we have a closer look at that?
 
That 2nd picture completely nocked me off my feet... :eek: How gorgious!! :woot: Not saying the last pic didn't, it did, but less, it definitively needs a trim. I understand the dilemma, still there is too much beauty in hardscape texture lost into the plant growth. :)
 
Τhank you all for your good words. I'm glad you like the materials I've got from nature. It's just as you say, some important parts of hardscape has been lost, but it's still at the beginning and I'm trying to improve the situation a bit with trimming and remove some plants and make some pieces of wood and stones to appear. Wabi Kusa It is only planted for 1.5 months.

We are here now
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Wabi kusa closer..
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