Aqua Hero
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So I did a post about my tank a while backed last year when it was called Eden Gate.
Though at the beginning of the 2016 I started planning out how to rescape it to make it look better.
Before the rescape my tank was in quite a bad condition. There was staghorn algae all over the mosses, my weeping moss had crazy burns and was looking more brown then green and the scape looked really unbalanced. In the end I got tired and decided to do a Rescape early this year.
Since it is was the new year I decided to give the scape by calling it 'Little Red'.
This is because my tank is filled with tons of red cherry shrimp and scarlet badis, all my fish are nano fish and the scape is inspired by forests.
Tank: Juwel lido 120 61x41x58
New fish stocking:
15 Pygmy cories
6 Scarlet Badis
3 Sparkling Gourami
2 Otocinclus catfish (will be getting more)
10-11 green neon tetra
5 amano shrimp
A few assassin snails
Only God knows how many cherries
Plants:
Weeping moss
Flame moss
Mini xmas moss
Fissidens fontanus
Eloecharis Acicularis
Eloecharis Parvula
Hydrocotyle sp Japan
Pygmy chain sword
Ammonia sp Bonsai
Substrate/hardscape:
Ada Amazonia normal
Ada Amazonia powder
Lava rock
Bonsai driftwood
Sand
Fertiliser:
Ei dosing
Lighting:
Quad odyssea t5 fixture but only using 3 10000k bulbs
8 hrs a day
Filtration/pump
Tetra tec ex800 plus (800lph)
Hydro Koralia pump (900lph)
Co2:
2kg co2 fire extinguisher
Co2art Dual gauge/single stage regulator
Bubble counter with in built check valve
2 more external check valves (glass and brass)
Co2 tubing
Intense bazooka diffuser
After nuking my tank with H202, I made huge changes.
I got tired of the sand path in the middle of my scape and decided to have carpet instead. I used Eloecharis Acicularis at the back because it was lighter in colour.
Creating the illusion that they are clear fields which are not shaded by the trees. Alongside Ammania sp bonsai and Pygmy chain sword. Basically I chose lighter colour plants like these to represent the areas that are outside of the forest.
Whereas in the forest I choose darker colour plants such as mosses and continued the carpet effect with Eloecharis Parvula since it was darker than Acicularis.
Originally I was gonna have Christmas moss be the main moss on the rocks but I bought so much weeping moss and so little Christmas moss I had to swap the roles
Either way I'm not disappointed.
One thing I kept the same was the weeping moss on the trees. This time I won't use excel and I will make sure my co2 levels are on point to minimise algae growth
All my moss were bought in their emersed form and are transitioning will into their submerged form. The weeping moss is even turning dark which is good.
Now on to the fish
I feed them a number of treats which include:
Hikari micro pellets
Hikari shrimp pellets
Hikari discus pellets
Hikari algae wafers
If you haven't noticed I'm a hikari fanboy lol
I feed baby brine shrimp and micro worms which I am currently trying to gutload with spirnulia algae.
I also feed Frozen brine shrimp, bloodworms and daphnia but not so often.
I tried raising a daphnia culture but found it to be too much work lol so I chose hatching bbs instead.
I'm a huge nano fish fan
And wanted to create a really good sense of scale in the tank (watching too much green machine on YouTube)
I chose the forest scape because I like scape a that allow fish to swim in and out of small spaces, it is a concept that not a lot of people do( didn't find a ton of pictures on google in comparison to iwagumi). Also I just find it really relaxing to look at and try to spot the creatures lurking in the woods.
As for my co2, what can I say this intake atomiser is sick. Creates such a fine mist which my plants seem to enjoy
Not to mention I can use soo much less co2. I had to use 4 bps with a glass diffuser but not I only use 1.5bps and my drop checker (which is placed in the furthest position from the diffuser) is always yellow. Haven't gassed my fish yet so it's cool.
Though it is annoying to clean sometimes because of calcium build up (my water is that hard)
I do have an inline diffuser which is on its way.
I do have some issues though. One is that one of my scarlet badis has dropsy. I will buy Epsom salt to see if that will help.
Also my Pygmy cories do spend a lot of time hiding and never really come to the front of the tank. I don't know if this is a flow issue or co2 or both or if they are afraid of me(weird because I have had some for months now). I wish someone could tell me what's up
I will keep you guys updated on what's going on.
Sent from my D2303 using Tapatalk
Though at the beginning of the 2016 I started planning out how to rescape it to make it look better.
Before the rescape my tank was in quite a bad condition. There was staghorn algae all over the mosses, my weeping moss had crazy burns and was looking more brown then green and the scape looked really unbalanced. In the end I got tired and decided to do a Rescape early this year.
Since it is was the new year I decided to give the scape by calling it 'Little Red'.
This is because my tank is filled with tons of red cherry shrimp and scarlet badis, all my fish are nano fish and the scape is inspired by forests.
Tank: Juwel lido 120 61x41x58
New fish stocking:
15 Pygmy cories
6 Scarlet Badis
3 Sparkling Gourami
2 Otocinclus catfish (will be getting more)
10-11 green neon tetra
5 amano shrimp
A few assassin snails
Only God knows how many cherries
Plants:
Weeping moss
Flame moss
Mini xmas moss
Fissidens fontanus
Eloecharis Acicularis
Eloecharis Parvula
Hydrocotyle sp Japan
Pygmy chain sword
Ammonia sp Bonsai
Substrate/hardscape:
Ada Amazonia normal
Ada Amazonia powder
Lava rock
Bonsai driftwood
Sand
Fertiliser:
Ei dosing
Lighting:
Quad odyssea t5 fixture but only using 3 10000k bulbs
8 hrs a day
Filtration/pump
Tetra tec ex800 plus (800lph)
Hydro Koralia pump (900lph)
Co2:
2kg co2 fire extinguisher
Co2art Dual gauge/single stage regulator
Bubble counter with in built check valve
2 more external check valves (glass and brass)
Co2 tubing
Intense bazooka diffuser
After nuking my tank with H202, I made huge changes.
I got tired of the sand path in the middle of my scape and decided to have carpet instead. I used Eloecharis Acicularis at the back because it was lighter in colour.
Creating the illusion that they are clear fields which are not shaded by the trees. Alongside Ammania sp bonsai and Pygmy chain sword. Basically I chose lighter colour plants like these to represent the areas that are outside of the forest.
Whereas in the forest I choose darker colour plants such as mosses and continued the carpet effect with Eloecharis Parvula since it was darker than Acicularis.
Originally I was gonna have Christmas moss be the main moss on the rocks but I bought so much weeping moss and so little Christmas moss I had to swap the roles
Either way I'm not disappointed.
One thing I kept the same was the weeping moss on the trees. This time I won't use excel and I will make sure my co2 levels are on point to minimise algae growth
All my moss were bought in their emersed form and are transitioning will into their submerged form. The weeping moss is even turning dark which is good.
Now on to the fish
I feed them a number of treats which include:
Hikari micro pellets
Hikari shrimp pellets
Hikari discus pellets
Hikari algae wafers
If you haven't noticed I'm a hikari fanboy lol
I feed baby brine shrimp and micro worms which I am currently trying to gutload with spirnulia algae.
I also feed Frozen brine shrimp, bloodworms and daphnia but not so often.
I tried raising a daphnia culture but found it to be too much work lol so I chose hatching bbs instead.
I'm a huge nano fish fan
And wanted to create a really good sense of scale in the tank (watching too much green machine on YouTube)
I chose the forest scape because I like scape a that allow fish to swim in and out of small spaces, it is a concept that not a lot of people do( didn't find a ton of pictures on google in comparison to iwagumi). Also I just find it really relaxing to look at and try to spot the creatures lurking in the woods.
As for my co2, what can I say this intake atomiser is sick. Creates such a fine mist which my plants seem to enjoy
Not to mention I can use soo much less co2. I had to use 4 bps with a glass diffuser but not I only use 1.5bps and my drop checker (which is placed in the furthest position from the diffuser) is always yellow. Haven't gassed my fish yet so it's cool.
Though it is annoying to clean sometimes because of calcium build up (my water is that hard)
I do have an inline diffuser which is on its way.
I do have some issues though. One is that one of my scarlet badis has dropsy. I will buy Epsom salt to see if that will help.
Also my Pygmy cories do spend a lot of time hiding and never really come to the front of the tank. I don't know if this is a flow issue or co2 or both or if they are afraid of me(weird because I have had some for months now). I wish someone could tell me what's up
I will keep you guys updated on what's going on.
Sent from my D2303 using Tapatalk