Iwagumi - 25L

[Nigel95]

My first tank but way to small so I bought a bigger one. Maybe you like to see my first attempt .

Have a look at my Youtube channel
>> www.youtube.com/nigelaquascaping <<

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Specs
Tank
Superfish home 25: 25 litre / 6,6 gallon
42 x 25 x 22,5 cm WxDxH
Lighting
Desk lamp 20 watt 1200 lumens
Stones
5 Seiryu stones
Substrate
ADA Aqua Soil
Shrimp
10+ Red cherry
3 Amano
Fish
5 microrasbora kubotai
Plants
Micranthemum 'Monte carlo' in the front
Dwarf hair grass 'Eleocharis acicularis mini' in the back and between the stones.
Co2
Pressurized CO2 with a diffusor
Co2 checker edge
Heater
25 watt dennerle nano heater temperature 24
Filter
Eheim classic 150 external filter with lily pipes
Background
Black vinyl ADA screen

Recent pictures

Golden ratio
1 focal point because it's a nano aquarium. The above 1/3 looks filled but if you go lower only the main stone reaches it a little.

Dry start
Day 1

Day 6 extra dwarf hair grass

Day 14

Day 21
Rescape

Day 26 with water

Day 51

Day 64

 

[Mannic05]

I geuss the growth was much faster whit water then the dry start or is this wrong. Great looking tank looks very healthy

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[Nigel95]

I geuss the growth was much faster whit water then the dry start or is this wrong. Great looking tank looks very healthy

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Yeah I was thinking that to. But the plants also need time to get used and at the start I had much lower light. It was only 5 watt that was build in. I removed it and now using a strong desk lamp 1200 lumens. So far no algae problems.

 

[Cor]

nice

 

[Eduard18]

nice indeed, plants look in great shape

 

[Deansie]

Great journal, lovely minimal little scape. Would you do a dry start again? Can I ask what was the initial light period duration?

 

[Nigel95]

Great journal, lovely minimal little scape. Would you do a dry start again? Can I ask what was the initial light period duration?

My first aquarium ever haha. I would only dry start again if using mosses by yoghurt method. I hate it that you can't watch to the tank and only see condensation. But if you don't mind it's a lot of less maintenance and the tank substrate will still cycle. I started with a 6 hour photoperiod and increased it by 15 mins every week and watched if there was any algae.

 

[Daveslaney]

Nice
What ferts do you use.

 

[Nigel95]

Nice
What ferts do you use.

Thanks

I was using vimi all in one ferts. But now I use tropica specialised ferts.


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