Hanging Rock - 45p Iwagumi

[doylecolmdoyle]

Update - 90% of my glosso decided to melt away, no idea why, the glosso was going great, if it was the old dry start growth dying off I dont really understand why it waited a few weeks to melt, so the glosso area is looking terrible and the green water wont go away, not winning! Tho the HC has started to spread nicely and should cover the lower area in a few weeks. I can see new growth in the glosso but all the dead / melted growth has made a mess, tried to syphon some of the dead stuff but its tricky without pulling up the stuff that survived, hoping to get some shrimp in here this weekend, just waiting on nitrates to drop!

Added a small 3w inline UV and moved my inline atomizer to the filter inlet side, pipes look a bit crazy tall at the moment... hopefully the green water clears...


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[doylecolmdoyle]

Updated photo, finally clear water, that Purigen stuff is magic, @rebel suggested I try it and less than 24hrs after adding about 50g to purgin to my filter the water is looking nice and clear! The UV filter had no effect so perhaps it wasn't really green water but something else staining the water. Glosso is starting to establish itself again after a big melt off, I have notice the new growth has a much smaller leaf size than the initial growth, making me think the melt was the older submersed growth. Mini Pellia moss is also starting to colour up, could probably trim the HC next weekend.

I should take the equipment out for the photo... but cant be stuffed.


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[doylecolmdoyle]

Tank is going well, here are some photos from tonight, I did plan on taking the filter out but again couldn't be bothered, the water looks like sprite due to the mist from the up-aqua atomizer, the moss on the rock is going well, I also started adding floating bits of HC on top of the rock and they are going pretty good, need to keep the water level a bit higher than what it is in these photos.


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[doylecolmdoyle]

Here are some close up shots of the pearling, tricky to get in focus, there is a bit of Riccia fluitans that started growing in the Glosso and also scatter about the HC, I have just let it go, it pearls so much, I kind of want to do a full Riccia fluitans carpet now, perhaps my next iguwami I will utilise this plant, even tho previously I have thought of it as a pest/weed, when its pearling its beautiful.

Co2 and light is pretty high in this tank, even the rock / green algae is pearling... probably not a good thing


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[Silviu Man]

Marvellous!

 

[doylecolmdoyle]

Had to leave all my tanks for a week while I went on holidays, they did well, I used some slow release feeding ring / food things and dosed heavy on the ferts before I left. Took this photo before my water change today.

The top of the rock is starting to get a nice green algae covering, probably going to be hard to keep clean, I hit it with the toothbrush and excel after this photo.

Starting to get a fair few seed shrimp so I think I will add some fish next weekend, just need to decide on what kind of fish.


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[Daveslaney]

Looking good.
Fantastic photos.

 

[Konsa]

Hi
Looking good.
I pesonaly like the green algae on the rock.
It looks nicely aged and natural.
Regards Konsa

 

[doylecolmdoyle]

Cheers guys, yes the green algae doesn't bother me to much, I never really bother to try keep rocks clear of it, as long as it doesn't grow on the glass I am happy

 

[Deansie]

Looks really good, can I ask what setting you have the light at and for how long? Thanks

 

[doylecolmdoyle]

Looks really good, can I ask what setting you have the light at and for how long? Thanks

Thanks, I have the light connected to a TC420 (programable LED controller) the light ramps up from 0 - 80% over 1 hour then 5 hrs at 80% and ramps down from 80 - 0% over 30 minutes. So basically 5 hrs at 80%

80% of the A-series plus light would probably be to much for a tank this size with only carpet plants, but the big rock blocks a lot of the light

 

[mohsen12251]

Hello
Congratulations on the beauty tank you have!
I also have a TC420 machine, but unfortunately because of lack of sufficient knowledge of my own country and my beloved country! Iran ..... I could not take advantage of the device.
My tanks have 4 rows of light-emitting diode power. Each row is 12 watts. I have a total of 48 watts of light.
What do I need to use 4 channels, each of which can be set up as sunrise and sunset, respectively? Driver and .....
What is the operating system map for my lighting system?
It works even better if the video is uploaded.
Thankful
With luck

 

[doylecolmdoyle]

Hello
Congratulations on the beauty tank you have!
I also have a TC420 machine, but unfortunately because of lack of sufficient knowledge of my own country and my beloved country! Iran ..... I could not take advantage of the device.
My tanks have 4 rows of light-emitting diode power. Each row is 12 watts. I have a total of 48 watts of light.
What do I need to use 4 channels, each of which can be set up as sunrise and sunset, respectively? Driver and .....
What is the operating system map for my lighting system?
It works even better if the video is uploaded.
Thankful
With luck

Hi thanks for the comments, I am not that versed in the setup of the tc420, my light is connected to just one channel. You can read more about it here - https://www.ukaps.org/forum/threads/chihiros-aquasky-sunset-sunrise.50135/ some of the people who commented in that thread may be able to help

 

[doylecolmdoyle]

Photo of the tank with all the equipment in and light at the level I usually run (not increased and moved to the front of the tank for the photo), looking scruffy and over grown, needs a good trim this weekend and I will try remove the riccia from the HC area, also there is a bunch of HM popping up from when I added some (then removed) during the dry start, I am thinking I will just add more to the back, also thinking about adding some hair-grass just to fully turn this into a carpet plant jungle

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[Samjpikey]

Photo of the tank with all the equipment in and light at the level I usually run (not increased and moved to the front of the tank for the photo), looking scruffy and over grown, needs a good trim this weekend and I will try remove the riccia from the HC area, also there is a bunch of HM popping up from when I added some (then removed) during the dry start, I am thinking I will just add more to the back, also thinking about adding some hair-grass just to fully turn this into a carpet plant jungle

IMG_0353 by Colm Doyle, on Flickr

Cool looking scape you have there

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[doylecolmdoyle]

Added 10 Neon Green Rasbora's yesterday, they seem happy with there new home, can really see the glosso suffering towards the back right, I have been told glosso does better in harder water, will see if it bounces back again

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[doylecolmdoyle]

Added 4 Pigmy Cory's today, had 3 of the Rasbora's jump, which hurts when they are $10 a pop, down to 7 of the Neon Green Rasbora's, no idea why they jump, hopefully the rest stay in the tank!


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[CooKieS]

Lovely cuba on that rock and lovely fishes too

 

[doylecolmdoyle]

Updated photo, the glosso continues to die, regrown and die again, would love to remove it all but that would be a pain, added a bit of HM back right, I like the look should have stuck with my original plan and planted HM from the start. Frogbit is going crazy and does detract from the over all look, but I would rather have messy looking frogbit than algae.

Fish are going ok, lost 5 out of the 10 Neon Green Rasboras, two didnt look well few days after adding them, very white and not swimming and 3 jumped, perhaps this tank was to small for them, thinking about putting the 5 left in with my other rasboras (40 odd) in my bookshelf tank and then just stock pigmy corys in this tank, I lost one of the pigmy corys (so only 3 left atm) I think it swam into the outlet of the skimmer when I turned it off during the lighting period one day, I found little chunks of dwarf cory all over the tank.


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[cookie.dou]

I really, really like where this is going! I think you could take it to the next level with 2 more stones to accentuate the vastness of the one you have now.