Waterbox 2420 Black

[Matt1994]

As far as a sense of depth goes, in person it's very hard to achieve, but you can sort of cheat and gain depth by changing photography angles etc, also planting schemes and different heights of plants can help to create the illusion of deeper spaces in the tank, i have to say you have much more patience for hardscaping than myself, never do yourself down.

your 600 is also a really lovely jungle style, now you have to test yourself with the planting on the waterbox.

Keep up the good work matt.

Gus.

Cheers Gus,
I'll have to once set up have a play with angles etc...

I definitely didn't use the foreground midground and background planting ideas in the aquascaper 600 but it's still going and its helped me so much in learning things

And truthfully I am not the most patient person but found doing 30-45 mins every other day has helped me and then giving it a day to re look at it and rethink I've had the stones in about 10+ positions 🤔



Thanks again for the kind words!!

Matt 😃

 

[Matt1994]

Evening all
No more to update on the waterbox as of yet, however had a bit of a change around in the aquascaper 600, I've been unable to do my weekly maintanince these past 2 months. Had family members do it but they weren't as precise as I'd like but have still tried their best however the tank suffered a fair bit of algae and just didn't look as good as it once did. I am planning on doing an iwagumi scape in it hopefully at some point next year once the waterbox is up and running but for now i have removed the dwarf hair grass at the front and removed all the leaves I could possible see with any signs of ill health or algae and have replaced the dwarf hair grass with

Tropica Hemianthus micranthemoides

Also replaces the super red at the back with some
Tropica Ceratopteris thalictroides


Looking forward to it all growing back in and soon being able to get back to my proper maintanince routine



Will post more updates as the waterbox progresses

Will post a pic of the aquascaper before and after below:


Thanks all
Matt 😃

 

[Matt1994]

Evening all!
Hope everyone has had a good Christmas


The tank is now planted as off about 2 hours ago !!


Loving the aquario neoflow inlet and outlet and the calaqua double drop checker

Running the oase biomaster 600 thermo with 1 blue sponge at the bottom
Middle matrix and the top orange sponge


Tried to plant as heavy as I could

Cannot wait for it all to grow in over the next few months

Thanks all
Matt 😃

 

[Matt1994]

A few pictures not longer after it was planted

 

[LondonAquascaper]

I had a waterbox peninsula 15 and it was great. I really rate their tanks. The pump started making a noise and they replaced it without question. Great company.

 

[Matt1994]

Hi all,

Day 5

All seems to be going good so far, apart from some tannis from the wood nothing the daily water changes aren't taking care of

Added some frogbit yesterday
Going to be continuing daily water changes for at least another week and then go to every other day


Plants were mostly 1-2 grow other than the bolbitus and anubus petite

But all showing signs of growth and looking healthy

Running the light at 50% for 6 hours with a 15min ramp up and 15min ramp down

And dosing 2Hr aquarist Zero 3ml daily


Will attach some photos

Thanks everyone
Matt 😃

 

[Matt1994]

I had a waterbox peninsula 15 and it was great. I really rate their tanks. The pump started making a noise and they replaced it without question. Great company.

Hi London aquascaper
It's my first waterbox aquarium
My other tank is the aquascaper 600
I really like it seems really good quality and really solid stand too

I queit like it been taller than the aquascaper 600 but same width and depth

Thanks
Matt 😃

 

[Matt1994]

Evening everyone

Day number 9 and all seems to be going good, plants seem to be growing great All looking healthy and no signs of melting or poor health
Been carrying out daily water changes of around 80% and, dosing seachem stability daily.

Dosing 3ML of 2hr aquarist Zero daily

Going to do daily water changes till next Wednesday, which will be the two week mark then go on to every other day for a week, then every couple of days the following week then hopefully down to once per week following maybe 2x a week.


Will attach a couple of photos,
First is the day it was setup and second is from today (day 9) after a water change

The third and fourth photos are also from today and are just some side shots of the tank.

Tannins seem to have pretty much gone now which is also good, so will probably add a bag of purigen into the filter in the next week or two to make sure the tannins have gone completely


Thanks
Matt 😃

 

[LondonAquascaper]

Great to see! That's going to look amazing grown in!

 

[Matt1994]

Evening all, been a while since I posted the tank.

It's had 2 trims since the last post I posted back in January.

Struggling with a little bit of staghorn algae at the minute


After the 3 week mark the tank seemed to explode in growth.

I kept up daily water changes for 3 weeks and the was doing 3 for the next week then have done two since.
I'm not sure if it's related but had a manic couple of weeks at work and have only managed to get one water change in a week so not sure if this has triggered the staghorn

Dosing 3Ml of 2hr Aquarist Zero daily
Drop checker is lime green at lights on and running the oase biomaster thermo 600 so around 10x turnover an hour


The tank is stocked with 3 german blue rams and 11 pentazona barbs along with Amano shrimp and 6 red onxy shrimp


Thanks all and sorry for the big delay between posts


Thanks
Matt 😀

 

[Matt1994]

Hi all, just gone past the 6 month mark with the waterbox 2420
Had a little bit of a stag horn algae outbreak but all seems to be clearing up now after upping water changes to two 70% a week
Added some gravel to the foreground
And absolutely in love with the apistogramma

Also had a move around with my house plants and made a nature inspired corner!

Dosing 3ML of 2hr aquarist apt zero daily and apt fix after every water change


Thanks all

Matt