aliclarke86
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- 21 Mar 2013
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Hi
thought i should say hello. I have only just discovered the wonders of planted tanks, after years of keeping fish. From start with little skulls and bright gravel when me and my girl friend first found a goldfish in the back garden in snow. The fish had a gash on each side leading us to believe he hadbeen snatched from a pond close by then dropped.
We went out and bought a 60lt tank and got him in the warm and to this day he is still in our lives.
we then continued to keep a few goldfish then branched out into tropical but still with tacky little plastic ornaments.
it was recently that i came across a planted tank by your very own George Farmer when looking for help with an algae outbreak on google.
i have since started my first attempt at a scape currently 1 month old
Please forgive the terrible photography.
tank is 60cm wide 40cm tall and 30cm deep
lighting is 2x 24w t5 7 hours per day
filtration is hang on 600lph
substrate is oliver knott brown soil
don't know about rocks but they are reminiscent of a local beauty spot that i was trying to capture (i know that the placement of hard scape can make or break a scape but this is the best i could do to capture said beauty spot and i think it will when it has grown in)
livestock is 10 Japonica shrimp, 5 otto's and 1 cardinal tetra and on guppy from a previous tank that needed a home
plants are
hemianthus callitrichoides
alternathera reineckii (currently hiding at the back)
hygrophila corymbosa
vallisneria nana
and some elodea until my wallet is a little more healthy and i can add some more plants.
dosing easy carbo and profito
i was running co2 but my regulator has become faulty so i need to replace it
also i don't think that the filter is up to the job but like i said funds are short and upgrading will be happening when i can
"Tank" you all for having me 😉
thought i should say hello. I have only just discovered the wonders of planted tanks, after years of keeping fish. From start with little skulls and bright gravel when me and my girl friend first found a goldfish in the back garden in snow. The fish had a gash on each side leading us to believe he hadbeen snatched from a pond close by then dropped.
We went out and bought a 60lt tank and got him in the warm and to this day he is still in our lives.
we then continued to keep a few goldfish then branched out into tropical but still with tacky little plastic ornaments.
it was recently that i came across a planted tank by your very own George Farmer when looking for help with an algae outbreak on google.
i have since started my first attempt at a scape currently 1 month old
Please forgive the terrible photography.
tank is 60cm wide 40cm tall and 30cm deep
lighting is 2x 24w t5 7 hours per day
filtration is hang on 600lph
substrate is oliver knott brown soil
don't know about rocks but they are reminiscent of a local beauty spot that i was trying to capture (i know that the placement of hard scape can make or break a scape but this is the best i could do to capture said beauty spot and i think it will when it has grown in)
livestock is 10 Japonica shrimp, 5 otto's and 1 cardinal tetra and on guppy from a previous tank that needed a home
plants are
hemianthus callitrichoides
alternathera reineckii (currently hiding at the back)
hygrophila corymbosa
vallisneria nana
and some elodea until my wallet is a little more healthy and i can add some more plants.
dosing easy carbo and profito
i was running co2 but my regulator has become faulty so i need to replace it
also i don't think that the filter is up to the job but like i said funds are short and upgrading will be happening when i can
"Tank" you all for having me 😉
