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My Non-co2 aquascape, been running since August 2018.
Tank - ADA 60p
Light - Twinstar 600e with dimmer
Substrate - tropica I think
Photoperiod - 6 hours
Co2 - no
Ferts - tropica specialised premium (1 pump a week
Water change - 20% every 2 weeks.
Filter - JBL e901 with glass lily pipes
Fauna - Green neon tetras, Galaxy Rasboras, loads of shrimp.
Plants - Monte Carlo, Riccardia chamedryfolia , Fissidens fontanus. Blyxa japonica , Hygrophila pinnatifida, java fern, needle leaf, Rotala h’ra, Hydrocotyle tripartita, bucephalandra.
I set this tank up in aug 2018 and it’s been running since, I do hardly any maintenance, it’s the most hassle free tank I’ve had. The carpet took about 4-5 months to fully grow in and it’s only been cut twice (I think). I trim the stems and remove moss the has grown unsightly.
This is in its current form.
27/8/18 on setup
3/12/18
2/1/19
13/4/19
22/08/19
1/10/19
In the photos the lights look bright, I have probably turned them up in most of them for photos but I was running the twinstar and 70% for months in till I added fish and I started to see small signs of bba so I dropped them to 40% for a couple of months, bba gone now and up the lights back to 50%.
Sorry for the long post but I regret not doing a journal now so thought I’d make this post to show my low tech aquarium to UKAPS. I upload to Facebook groups and get all the time ‘this ain’t low tech’ it must have co2’ ‘Them glass things definitely make it a high tech tank’ lol.
Thank you for reading.
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Tank - ADA 60p
Light - Twinstar 600e with dimmer
Substrate - tropica I think
Photoperiod - 6 hours
Co2 - no
Ferts - tropica specialised premium (1 pump a week
Water change - 20% every 2 weeks.
Filter - JBL e901 with glass lily pipes
Fauna - Green neon tetras, Galaxy Rasboras, loads of shrimp.
Plants - Monte Carlo, Riccardia chamedryfolia , Fissidens fontanus. Blyxa japonica , Hygrophila pinnatifida, java fern, needle leaf, Rotala h’ra, Hydrocotyle tripartita, bucephalandra.
I set this tank up in aug 2018 and it’s been running since, I do hardly any maintenance, it’s the most hassle free tank I’ve had. The carpet took about 4-5 months to fully grow in and it’s only been cut twice (I think). I trim the stems and remove moss the has grown unsightly.
This is in its current form.
27/8/18 on setup
3/12/18
2/1/19
13/4/19
22/08/19
1/10/19
In the photos the lights look bright, I have probably turned them up in most of them for photos but I was running the twinstar and 70% for months in till I added fish and I started to see small signs of bba so I dropped them to 40% for a couple of months, bba gone now and up the lights back to 50%.
Sorry for the long post but I regret not doing a journal now so thought I’d make this post to show my low tech aquarium to UKAPS. I upload to Facebook groups and get all the time ‘this ain’t low tech’ it must have co2’ ‘Them glass things definitely make it a high tech tank’ lol.
Thank you for reading.
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