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The "So-fish-ticated" Aquascape - 24 Litres of Cheapskate

Equipment dry fit
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When the plants have grown in and more are added both will be nicely hidden from view, have the flow baffled for the Partners Betta Fish and a temp probe installed.

Wanting to leave this branch more sparse with just very small Micranthra and moss
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Added a Pygmea on the opposite to try and get a sense of scale into the Aqua scape
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The main section is now becoming a lot more different shades and leaf patterns. I also attached a lot more of the Hygrophila Pinnifatida to the rear of the wood
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Any spare moss I find plus the run off I brush back over the wood sections.

The mister unit I hate, it's a fountain that emptied the tank and drenched me. No way of working out if I can slow it down at all 🤣
 
So the cheap aquarium LED light decided that it would not power on this morning, I have packaged it back up and started the return process. Thankfully I have an old almost indestructible ASTA 20 that I've thrown in the tank in the mean time.
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Not really a fan of this one as it is the reef version so I have turned off both the blue channels, white on max and the R&G on 30% (so the colour looks good to me)
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So I have decided that I would run this light at 40% Brightness, anything more and it becomes uncomfortable for me to look at. Might change once flooded however
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Lots of Moss Growth and new tufts popping up here and there now, really happy with this as my first attempt
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Had to thin out one of my Peace Lilies so decided to get a couple small plants accustomed to submerged growth. Also more moss
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Bucephalandra and the Hygrophila Pinnitafida is looking good, the latter is now starting to get the leaf shape that I am used to seeing
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Will give this another few weeks, maybe until the end of the month to settle in before flooding and setting up the CO2
 
This tank has also settled in nicely, although now I am noticing more and more issues with the fish shelf, namely and more annoying the fact that it is extremely difficult to get my hands into the tank to perform any form of maintenance. This means i need to lift everything off, re plan and shuffle around the shelfs and get everything back and rehome a few plants..... so that is on the back burner. Thankfully the little filter in here has a couple of different adapters, once of which I have installed some airline tubing onto so that I can swap out the filter output to help with water changes.

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The amount of floating plants has meant that I have lost the majority of moss from the scape, but I now know what I would do differently for the next time that I set up a little tank or rescape this one. However this si teh tank that produces the most and most colourful Red Root Floaters of any of my three tanks.

I also really enjoy the different water colours between the Betta tank on the bottom and the Gobytope up top
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Ratvan said:
The amount of floating plants has meant that I have lost the majority of moss from the scape, but I now know what I would do differently
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Interested in your experience here. I am new to moss (I have a few clumps awaiting their final placement in my new tank) and also have floaters... A few weeks in and my moss (weeping) is definitely not thriving at the moment! Or, it doesn't seem to be - still on a steep learning curve with it so I'm not even sure!
 
LFNfan said:
Interested in your experience here. I am new to moss (I have a few clumps awaiting their final placement in my new tank) and also have floaters... A few weeks in and my moss (weeping) is definitely not thriving at the moment! Or, it doesn't seem to be - still on a steep learning curve with it so I'm not even sure!
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Well personally I have learned that I need to keep on top of the amount of floating plants that are in the tank, in this one I am trying to keep to only a few large Amazon Frogbit as Burt seems to really enjoy building his bubble nests around these and hanging out in the roots, and the rest Red Root Floaters for the Aesthetics.

I found that the moss needs to have regular trimming, this seems to encourage faster bushier growth. I think also that I forgot to refill the CO2 on a few days so it has gone from a dark start to being CO2 starved which would explain some of the browning and releasing. Also the patches that were not completely covered by the floaters seemed to take a lot faster, bushier and more resistant. The other plants in the tank don't seem to mind surviving in the lower light environment
 
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