This is my updated 20L Dennerle nano - "Shale Combe" The original scape "A Japanese garden of Sorts" didn't really turn out how I planned, with the stems the only real plants that thrived and it just felt like a total mess...
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I rescaped a month or so ago with slate/shale I had collected on my summer holiday in Devon. It was all picked up from Tunnels Beaches in Ilfracombe (an amazing place with more rock pools that you can imagine). The whole beach was made up of shale and slate, so I came away with a couple of my daughters buckets full of tiny pieces!
I was originally intending it for use on another scape I hadn't yet fully visualised, but I was hoping for a new tank so I could try my hand at an Iwagumi based on the Tunnels Beaches pic, but this got put on the back burner by the war office! and then one night this seemed to come together when I'd had rather too much red wine!
The specs:
Tank: Dennerle 20L
CO2: TMC 95g Pro set - 1-2 per second
Filter: Azoo Mignon 150 HOB
Lighting: Superfish 18w - 8 hours a day
Substrate: ADA Amazonia Powder (reused from the original scape) over some Tropica plant substrate.
Hardscape: Devon slate (boiled several times) & Driftwood (reused from original scape)
Dosing: Tropica TPN + - 2ml once a week
Flora: Blyxa Japonica, Postegmon Helferi, Proserpinaca Paulustris 'cuba', Bolboltis, Needle Leaf Java fern, Hydrocotyle sp. Japan Fissidens fontanus, Flame moss and Xmas moss (I think) on the driftwood and on some slate - I had a lot of moss which got mixed up so I'm not too sure what it is now! I've also just added a couple of small bits of slate with some Coral pellia under a mesh.
Fauna: 7 Rasbora maculata, 5 pygmy corry's, 4 Cherry shrimp & a couple of assassin snails (to try & rid me of the snail explosion that arrived with some of the plants).
Practise hardscape layout
Hardscape in
Planted up & half filled
Filled and in place and up and running for a month
The Bolboltis which I received in great health from a member happily settled into my other tank, but had an outbreak of BBA within a week and after dosing with Excell for the past week or so is looking burnt and rather forlorn (as you can see) so I'm thinking I should trim right back - advice please?
This also did it for my Vallisneria nana - but from previous experience I know this doesn't take well to Excell so I've already trimmed this back and hope it will live to fight another day once I stop with the daily flourish dossing (it worked for me before).
I'm pretty sure the algae issues (I also have a bit of hair algae) have been due to too much light and inconsistent CO2 + I realised I've been over dossing on the TPN+ for the size of tank, so I have addressed all of these issues in the last week and I hope to see the benefit in the next couple of weeks.
I am aware I probably already have too many plant species in the tank, but I can't help thinking I need some stems maybe with some colour or something at the back to add contrast, but also help combat any algae going forward. I'm thinking something like Hygrophila Pinnatifida, or maybe Aponogeton crispus 'red'. Any suggestions would be happily received.
Over Christmas I invested in a TMC mini LED and i have just set this up over the last couple of days, with the light period on for 5 hours. So I'm looking for a TMC controller but also due to overcrowding around the rim I think I'm also going to change to a Dennerle eckfilter and if the tank progresses I may bite the bullet and go for an external with lily pipes etc.
I can't seem to do it justice with a camera - I will keep trying though and hopefully once I'm running with no issues the pics will do it justice.
As always comments and advice welcome please!
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I rescaped a month or so ago with slate/shale I had collected on my summer holiday in Devon. It was all picked up from Tunnels Beaches in Ilfracombe (an amazing place with more rock pools that you can imagine). The whole beach was made up of shale and slate, so I came away with a couple of my daughters buckets full of tiny pieces!
I was originally intending it for use on another scape I hadn't yet fully visualised, but I was hoping for a new tank so I could try my hand at an Iwagumi based on the Tunnels Beaches pic, but this got put on the back burner by the war office! and then one night this seemed to come together when I'd had rather too much red wine!
The specs:
Tank: Dennerle 20L
CO2: TMC 95g Pro set - 1-2 per second
Filter: Azoo Mignon 150 HOB
Lighting: Superfish 18w - 8 hours a day
Substrate: ADA Amazonia Powder (reused from the original scape) over some Tropica plant substrate.
Hardscape: Devon slate (boiled several times) & Driftwood (reused from original scape)
Dosing: Tropica TPN + - 2ml once a week
Flora: Blyxa Japonica, Postegmon Helferi, Proserpinaca Paulustris 'cuba', Bolboltis, Needle Leaf Java fern, Hydrocotyle sp. Japan Fissidens fontanus, Flame moss and Xmas moss (I think) on the driftwood and on some slate - I had a lot of moss which got mixed up so I'm not too sure what it is now! I've also just added a couple of small bits of slate with some Coral pellia under a mesh.
Fauna: 7 Rasbora maculata, 5 pygmy corry's, 4 Cherry shrimp & a couple of assassin snails (to try & rid me of the snail explosion that arrived with some of the plants).
Practise hardscape layout
Hardscape in
Planted up & half filled
Filled and in place and up and running for a month
The Bolboltis which I received in great health from a member happily settled into my other tank, but had an outbreak of BBA within a week and after dosing with Excell for the past week or so is looking burnt and rather forlorn (as you can see) so I'm thinking I should trim right back - advice please?
This also did it for my Vallisneria nana - but from previous experience I know this doesn't take well to Excell so I've already trimmed this back and hope it will live to fight another day once I stop with the daily flourish dossing (it worked for me before).
I'm pretty sure the algae issues (I also have a bit of hair algae) have been due to too much light and inconsistent CO2 + I realised I've been over dossing on the TPN+ for the size of tank, so I have addressed all of these issues in the last week and I hope to see the benefit in the next couple of weeks.
I am aware I probably already have too many plant species in the tank, but I can't help thinking I need some stems maybe with some colour or something at the back to add contrast, but also help combat any algae going forward. I'm thinking something like Hygrophila Pinnatifida, or maybe Aponogeton crispus 'red'. Any suggestions would be happily received.
Over Christmas I invested in a TMC mini LED and i have just set this up over the last couple of days, with the light period on for 5 hours. So I'm looking for a TMC controller but also due to overcrowding around the rim I think I'm also going to change to a Dennerle eckfilter and if the tank progresses I may bite the bullet and go for an external with lily pipes etc.
I can't seem to do it justice with a camera - I will keep trying though and hopefully once I'm running with no issues the pics will do it justice.
As always comments and advice welcome please!