"Prairie Lands"... job done

[George Farmer]

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Nice video mate. More harlequins and it will look superb.

Any particular reason for the SAEs? Not for algae issues, surely!?

 

[Mark Evans]

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I've just added 13 more, and I'm chuffed with the way they look. 😀

George, I've added sae's because i find them much more efficient in rooting around the grasses and stuff than shrimp. plus their full of character.

 

[Mark Evans]

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forgot to say, i also changed one of tubes for a JBL 9000K tube...cracking tube indeed.

These fish are great. I'll try and capture them better, when they settle in a bit.

 

[Mark Evans]

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for the 'speedy' connections amongst us, here's a vid of the extra harlys. Now there is definitely some different sorts in their.



Their still skittish, but I'm excited that they'll play ball when it comes to images and videos

 

[Ian Holdich]

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I'm using the 9 k tubes (2) at the moment, Mark and am well impressed with the natural look.

 

[Gill]

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They Look Great 🙂

 

[Mark Evans]

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I'm using the 9 k tubes (2) at the moment, Mark and am well impressed with the natural look.

cheers Ian. Out of my last 5 tanks or so, this is the one I'm most pleased with.

The JBL tubes are really impressive it has to be said.

They Look Great

cheers Gill. George did say to me a while ago, once there's a few more, they'll shoal better...he's bang on the money!

I think i'll need to take out the odd fish which looks so different to the others...There's one thats bright orange :?

 

[John Starkey]

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Hi Mark,i just looked at your vimeo and noticed how much flow you have going on in there,i know its good to have good flow and i have my filter up quite high and the plants are swaying nicely,but your plants are really flowing around,do find you get better plant growth at this high flow rate ?,
regards,
john.

 

[Mark Evans]

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,i know its good to have good flow and i have my filter up quite high and the plants are swaying nicely,but your plants are really flowing around,do find you get better plant growth at this high flow rate ?,

I'm not sure if they grow better than in low flow, as I've never really had a low flow tank. I always aim to have the plants in the bottom right corner of the tank (directly underneath the inlet) to 'sway' this way i know, i have flow and more importantly, co2 enriched water in the hardest to reach place.

of course this is a low carpet effect tank and flow gets around with ease, but i think it eliminates dead spots to. There's no part of the tank that doesn't have plants swaying

In realty, the effect is pleasant, rather than a torrent.

 

[John Starkey]

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,i know its good to have good flow and i have my filter up quite high and the plants are swaying nicely,but your plants are really flowing around,do find you get better plant growth at this high flow rate ?,

I'm not sure if they grow better than in low flow, as I've never really had a low flow tank. I always aim to have the plants in the bottom right corner of the tank (directly underneath the inlet) to 'sway' this way i know, i have flow and more importantly, co2 enriched water in the hardest to reach place.

of course this is a low carpet effect tank and flow gets around with ease, but i think it eliminates dead spots to. There's no part of the tank that doesn't have plants swaying

In realty, the effect is pleasant, rather than a torrent.

Right cheers mate,does make sense when you think about it .

 

[Mark Evans]

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i've just looked through the last few posts, and the videos are placed randomly.

here's a list of recent, random updates.





http://vimeo.com/15705867



signing off for a while 😀

 

[chump54]

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great vids Mark, love the flow.

Chris

 

[flygja]

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I just realised that your main rock bears a striking resemblance to an illustrated rock used in Amano's Intro to Iwagumi article.

http://www.aquajournal.net/na/iwagumi/introduction.html

Look below under Iwagumi Layout Procedure

 

[Mark Evans]

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It is similar mate

i wish i could do other things the same as Amano

Cheers chumps

 

[flygja]

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Don't sell yourself short, you're pretty much almost there. Don't forget that he has virtually unlimited resources and an army of staff to help him maintain the tanks he creates. We have to make do whatever hardscape, plants and equipment that we have. And our own two hands.

 

[Mark Evans]

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Don't sell yourself short, you're pretty much almost there

nice to say, but i don't reckon I'm anywhere near. Many more years of practise needed. 😀

Now the fish are colouring up, this pic should show the 3 varieties of the 'same' fish according to MA

could someone tell me what they are?

 

[Vito]

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I would say the bright fella on the left side of the three halerqunins is definetly a hengeli, well thats what mine were labled as and mine look exacly like your one. still looks stunning alongside the others, I might mix in a few harlequins with mine 😉. awsome shots and vids!!!!!!

 

[YzemaN]

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Now the fish are colouring up, this pic should show the 3 varieties of the 'same' fish according to MA

could someone tell me what they are?

Hmm... I can only see two different Harlequins. Trigonostigma heteromorpha & espei. Have a look here:
http://fishbase.org/NomenClature/Scient ... ackstep=-2


EDIT: Oh, I forgot to add 🙄 The scape is coming together very nicely indeed! And I love the harlequins.

 

[Mark Evans]

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cheers guys.

I can only see two different Harlequins

there is 3 mate, i'm sure. the bright one, the normal looking harly, and the one with the blue line at the top.

i'll try and get individual shots.

 

[George Farmer]

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Hi mate

There's three regular harlequin species

Trigonostigma heteromorpha
Trigonostigma hengeli
Trigonostigma espei