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I thought I'll just open a journal for my not so well aquascaped Diana Walstad method tank.
It used to house a betta but he died during the heatwave here, the tank reached 32C and the betta didn't do well for some reason. So I took the chance to rescape it. It used to be a low tech tank just with plain sand. Light is the very old 11W one that came with the tank but it gets natural sunlight too. Here is the latest picture before I torn down the tank:
So I emptied the tank, binned all the hydrophila and rescaped it. The tank is just 10 days old. Details and results below:
Tank size-28L
Substrate consists of:
Soil-B&Q Verve food and vegetable planter(My partner got that for his veg so I just risked it)
Mulm-had collected mulm from cleaning the filters on my other tanks, mixed with the soil.
Red earhenware clay-mixed the soil with about 10% clay
Cap-white sand that was already used in the same tank.
Flora-cuttings from another tank:
mexican oak leaf
ludwiga palustrus x repens
anubias nana(was always in this tank)
echinodorus(identified as helanthium or latifolius)
hydrocolyte tripartita
bacopa australis
Pictures on day 1 after planting:
In another couple of days:
Then another couple of days:
Trimmed it once after the above picture and now it's like this as of yesterday:
It has no inhabitants still besides some micro ramshorns(not sure about scientific name) and 2-3 MTS snails. I am still not sure what I'll put in there fish wise, needs to be something very small or just another betta.
It used to house a betta but he died during the heatwave here, the tank reached 32C and the betta didn't do well for some reason. So I took the chance to rescape it. It used to be a low tech tank just with plain sand. Light is the very old 11W one that came with the tank but it gets natural sunlight too. Here is the latest picture before I torn down the tank:
So I emptied the tank, binned all the hydrophila and rescaped it. The tank is just 10 days old. Details and results below:
Tank size-28L
Substrate consists of:
Soil-B&Q Verve food and vegetable planter(My partner got that for his veg so I just risked it)
Mulm-had collected mulm from cleaning the filters on my other tanks, mixed with the soil.
Red earhenware clay-mixed the soil with about 10% clay
Cap-white sand that was already used in the same tank.
Flora-cuttings from another tank:
mexican oak leaf
ludwiga palustrus x repens
anubias nana(was always in this tank)
echinodorus(identified as helanthium or latifolius)
hydrocolyte tripartita
bacopa australis
Pictures on day 1 after planting:
In another couple of days:
Then another couple of days:
Trimmed it once after the above picture and now it's like this as of yesterday:
It has no inhabitants still besides some micro ramshorns(not sure about scientific name) and 2-3 MTS snails. I am still not sure what I'll put in there fish wise, needs to be something very small or just another betta.