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'Lava Negro'

Plunket said:
Loving this one mate....crystal heaven 🙂
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thanks mate. Its growing in really well now. They better like it.
Aron_Dip said:
Looks wicked mate.. will make a great home for your shrimp :thumbup:
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cheers buddy. Ive got an itch to do a bigger version in the living room :/
steveno said:
Looks great, looking forward to seeing shrimp in there...:thumbup:
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thanks steveno. Kind words. Shrimp will be in next week finally. Will be careful which I pick to go in. Quite liking just snowballs and golden bees for a nice contrast.
Ruke said:
Looks very nice with a nice light set up
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hey ruke. Thank you. And yes the light is really really good. Not too powerful, no algae yet very nice plant growth and colour.
roge21 said:
Looks very well
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thanks mate.
pmgsr said:
Very good Alastair. Really nice hardscape and planting.

Pedro.
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Hiya mate. Thanks for the positive feedback. Im proud of it. Very simple but looks nice with next to zero input needed.
Ben C said:
Really nice, Alastair. There is nothing more beautiful than a healthy Anubias.
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Agreed ben. Id love a big tank of this stuff
 
Ive just taken a quick photo on my s4 but will take some proper photos with my dslr next week once shrimp are in.
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Growth is going well, the larger anubias nana is flowering too. Im only fdoing 1 10percent water change a week and adding one pump of tropica specialised and everything looks very healthy.
Ive since added an eheim liberty 2042 and the water looks crystal clear as if purigen is in. Great filter and great flow too.

Lighting is on 6 hours a day and its a fantastic little unit. Very well worth the money. Ive not encountered any algae so far, colours really pop in the tank and im hoping the crystals will look great in their too. really am taken to this little light. Mixtures of blue red and white leds. The phone makes it appear slightly pink but its not as my camera will show. The night light is great too.

Id definitely recommend these too anybody looking to buy a small led unit.
Im buying a par meter soon so can give readings on it.

the wood is still weighted down as its not completely absorbed water yet. Hope its off for next week.

im going to order some bucephs to add in and filling in the gaps with cladarophora balls
 
Nathaniel Whiteside said:
Exceptional as usual Alistair. Nice one mate.
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Cheers Nath. Very kind mate

Iain Sutherland said:
my water is cystal with the liberty too, maybe something to do with high o2 levels feeding the bacteria?? The 18mm shrimp cages fit well too with a little jiggery pal.
Shrimp are gunna love that mould!
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Yeah im very happy with the liberty. Ive just got some fluval pre filters which fit perfectly. Shrimp going in this week.

Graham01 said:
Great looking setting up as always Alastair what's the make of the tank looking for something much the same 🙂
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Ermmmm good question ill check now graham
 
Have had a little change about with some additional wood and teplaced the narrow leaf with windelov and covered the wood with moss to give it an aged look.
Im also contemplating making the whole back glass a 'fissedens fontanus wall. I just need to get a loan out for the amount of fissedens needed.
Its a little cloudy but will clear quickly.
Shrimp will be in this week too so excited to get the f1s in then the blue pandas in a few more weeks.
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Amazing aquascape Al 🙂 . I can already imagine how awesome it will look once the fissidens fontanus wall comes up. I have no idea how you manage to make your ferns look so healthy every time without co2. I keep roasting mine😳
 
faizal said:
Amazing aquascape Al 🙂 . I can already imagine how awesome it will look once the fissidens fontanus wall comes up. I have no idea how you manage to make your ferns look so healthy every time without co2. I keep roasting mine😳
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Hey faizal thanks mate. Kind words as always 🙂

Im still saving for the fissedens wall but everything else is growing really really healthy. Literally just a tiny water change and one squirt of tropica specislised once a week.
It gets lots of comments when people go from looking at the big tank to my kitchen to see this.

nduli said:
Superb little scape. Live the black lava and the light. Hmm I can feel a re scape coming on.
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Thanks nduli. The light really is a fantastic unit. Im not just saying that but the colour it gives off is beautiful and both plants and shrimps look amazing under it.
 
Four50 said:
Would love to see an update on this, did you manage to get shrimp in and a par reading? 🙂
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Can get some updated photos tomorrow evening for sure. Lights are off now.

Shrimp are in, f1s x prl and blue pandas/shadows are in this week.

I have the par meter hear and only briefly tested it but at surface level it was very good and substrate was too. Ill do proper readings tomorrow 🙂
 
My wine red and a prl/shadow panda hybrid are berried 🙂

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