clonitza
Member
Hi boys and girls,
After a long absence I wanted to tell you a thing or two about my aquarium.
Unfortunately I had a problem using the old account so I had to register a new one.
So.... the aquarium:
A week ago ...
The tank
- 70cm long x 35cm wide x 30cm tall - optiwhite glass
Soil
- ADA Power Sand Special S
- ADA Forest Sand Orinocco
- ADA Amazonia 1
Fertilizers
- TNP+
Filtration
- Eheim Ecco Pro 300
Light
- 2 x T5 24w Osram 965 + JBL SOLAR Reflect
CO2
- 2Kg + Dennerle Profi 2000? + Sera solenoid valve + JBL glass diffuser + Glass CO2 tester
Inhabitants
- Apistogramma cacatuoides (1 pair)
- Hemigrammus rodwayi (8)
- Otocinclus vestitus (2)
- Caridina multidentata (3)
Plants
- Marsilea Hirsuta
- Hemianthus Callitrichoides
- Glossostigma elatinoides
- Staurogyne repens
- Blyxa Japonica
- Micranthemum Micranthemoides
- Echinodorus Regine Hildebrandt
- Hygrophila Polysperma
- Ludwigia Arcuata
- Ammania Gracilis
- Ammania sp. Bonsai
- Rotala rotundifolia
- Rotala macrandra red
- Ranunculus papulentus
- Cryptocoryne parva
- Anchor moss
- Hydrocotyle sibthorpioides
- Hedyotis salzmannii
+ 3 new to arrive:
- Prosperpinaca palustris
- Rotala macrandra green
- Rotala sp. 'Vietnam'
I've started this setup in March (see Lush Cavern in journals) but for various reasons I couldn't balance the flow so I decided take all the hardscape out and use only plants in here.
I had various problems with BBA, diatoms due to the decaying wood, my JBL filter stopped working so I've replaced it with an Eheim but now is on the right track. I don't know how it will look like, I just trimm and add various plants in there, see what I like, what I don't, how can I mix them to look alright. This 'scape started with 5 plant species and now I have 18 (might be others in there) and 3 new to come and I won't stop here so it's going more to look like a collector's scape in the end
One of my three hard working dudes
And the tank today (well ... yesterday)
I was lazy enough to pull the hardware out for a proper shooting.
No the big challenge is to turn them red, hopefully I can do this without lowering the nitrate.
Mike
After a long absence I wanted to tell you a thing or two about my aquarium.
Unfortunately I had a problem using the old account so I had to register a new one.
So.... the aquarium:
A week ago ...
The tank
- 70cm long x 35cm wide x 30cm tall - optiwhite glass
Soil
- ADA Power Sand Special S
- ADA Forest Sand Orinocco
- ADA Amazonia 1
Fertilizers
- TNP+
Filtration
- Eheim Ecco Pro 300
Light
- 2 x T5 24w Osram 965 + JBL SOLAR Reflect
CO2
- 2Kg + Dennerle Profi 2000? + Sera solenoid valve + JBL glass diffuser + Glass CO2 tester
Inhabitants
- Apistogramma cacatuoides (1 pair)
- Hemigrammus rodwayi (8)
- Otocinclus vestitus (2)
- Caridina multidentata (3)
Plants
- Marsilea Hirsuta
- Hemianthus Callitrichoides
- Glossostigma elatinoides
- Staurogyne repens
- Blyxa Japonica
- Micranthemum Micranthemoides
- Echinodorus Regine Hildebrandt
- Hygrophila Polysperma
- Ludwigia Arcuata
- Ammania Gracilis
- Ammania sp. Bonsai
- Rotala rotundifolia
- Rotala macrandra red
- Ranunculus papulentus
- Cryptocoryne parva
- Anchor moss
- Hydrocotyle sibthorpioides
- Hedyotis salzmannii
+ 3 new to arrive:
- Prosperpinaca palustris
- Rotala macrandra green
- Rotala sp. 'Vietnam'
I've started this setup in March (see Lush Cavern in journals) but for various reasons I couldn't balance the flow so I decided take all the hardscape out and use only plants in here.
I had various problems with BBA, diatoms due to the decaying wood, my JBL filter stopped working so I've replaced it with an Eheim but now is on the right track. I don't know how it will look like, I just trimm and add various plants in there, see what I like, what I don't, how can I mix them to look alright. This 'scape started with 5 plant species and now I have 18 (might be others in there) and 3 new to come and I won't stop here so it's going more to look like a collector's scape in the end
One of my three hard working dudes
And the tank today (well ... yesterday)
I was lazy enough to pull the hardware out for a proper shooting.
No the big challenge is to turn them red, hopefully I can do this without lowering the nitrate.
Mike