Old rocks

[ParanoidJack]

Hello aquarium hobbyists, my name is Razvan, I'm from Romania and a enjoy this hobby for 3 years. Untill now I tried the dutch and the nature style, but In my latest setup, wich i'll present to you, I'm trying to get something nature and wild.

The tanks has 180 liters, 100x40x45 (cm) and the equipments are:
- light: 4x39w Giesemann 2 midday + 2 aquaflora;
- filters: Eheim 2028 1050l/h filled with seachem matrix + Eheim 2213 440l/h filled with eheim substrat pro + surface skimmer Dennerle turbo skimmer;
- co2: 10kg cylinder , Jbl pressure reducer, Aquamedic valve, Dennerle 588 ph controller, Dennerle ph electrod, Aquamedic 1000 co2 reactor;
- substrate: Jbl manado 30l;
- the stones are picked from a mountain river bank in Romania.

Fishes: 10 ember tetra, 5 otocinclus vittatus, 2 sae.

Plants: hemianthus micranthemoides, hydrocotyle tripartita japan, rotala rotundifolia red, cryptocoryne parva, anubias nana petite, staurogyne repens, alternanthera reineckii mini, amania bonsai, ludwigia peruviana, rotala macrandra green, fissidens fontanus.

Fertilisers: Vimi all in red 15ml/day + Vimi accelerator 6 ml/day;
Lights are on 5 h/day for the first 2 weeks, no pause;
Water change - 50% one per week;
Ph - 6.8

The scape is not yet complet, I need some other plants wich I will find and get soon.

Please feel free to criticize or advise!

 

[ian_m]

The scape is not yet complete

It is in my eyes. Nice. Love the rocks.

 

[kirk]

Hi, nice job. Very nice rocks , like the arrangement of them too. How long did it take to position them?

 

[Dantrasy]

Love it!

Lots of small details.

 

[Tim Harrison]

Welcome...very nice.

 

[Another Phil]

Hi Razvan,
I love the swoopy curves and then the little pebbles and bits of twig bring it all to life.

cheers phil

 

[Jamie McGrath]

sweet

 

[dw1305]

Hi all,
I like this.

With the usual proviso that I don't know anything about aquascaping, but I would add some pebbles to the left hand side rocks as well, mainly to break up the transition between the rocks and substrate.

cheers Darrel

 

[ParanoidJack]

Thank you all for the nice words and apreciation. The scape is far for complete, it nearly has 1 week and it will suffer many changes
Update:
I removed the anubias and the pinatifida in the right corner because of their large leafs and I added rotala macrandra green instead. I also addes more pebbles to the side of the left rocks as Darrel advised (I hope I got your advise right).
I also addes some glosostigma infront and I tied some fisidens fontanus to little pebbles that I hid in the cracks of the rocks.
For the right half of the scape I'm searching some small plants with nature-look like. I find hydrocotyle verticillata and ranunculus inunadus perfect to suit my idea. What do you think? Imagine an invasion of verticillata and inundatus "swalowing" the stones.

 

[alex08]

Welcome to UKAPS, Razvan!

Nice setup, what's more to say. You already know my opinion.

 

[rodoselada]

Welcom Razvan! beautiful stones

 

[ParanoidJack]

Looking nature or it's too much?

 

[kirk]

It's looking good will look even better once thr plants find their way amongst them., be carefull mind keep an eye out for makapaka.

 

[kirk]

 

[Alexander Belchenko]

Yes, looking nature.

 

[1stgolf]

Love them rocks.

 

[ParanoidJack]

Having trouble with GDA, I got hight phosphates and low nitrates, trying to solve asap. I also changed the lighting program, adding a pause: 2,5-2-2,5.
New pic:

 

[rodoselada]

very beautiful plants grow, the GDA is not a problem with little attention to solve, make more frequent exchanges of water and adjust the balance.

 

[ParanoidJack]

New pics, 5 weeks from start:

 

[Imorpher]

Stunning tank. Absolutely love all the different colours.