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Welcome to my first forest aquascape style
Specs planted tank aquarium
Tank
80x40x40 cm / 31x15x15" opticwhite 8mm
34 gallon / 128 litre
Lighting
Chihiros rgb 60
Hardscape
Lava rock
Spiderwood
Substrate
ADA Aqua Soil
Shrimp
50+ Red cherry shrimp
Fish
20 green neon tetra
Snails
10 Clithon sp.
Plants
hydrocotyle tripartita
cryptocoryne parva
fissidens fontanus
fissidens mini
solenostoma tetragonum
Bucephalandra (soon before flooding)
Co2
Pressurized CO2 with a diffusor
Co2 checker edge (20 ppm)
Heater
Hydor eth 200 temperature 25 celcius
Filter
Eheim experience 350 (2426) with stainless steel lily pipes
Background
Frosted glass spray
Day 1 Hardscape & DSM
Tank 80x40x40 cm - 34g / 128L
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Yoghurt method experiment
[/B]Got some fissidens fontanus from someone. Trying out the yoghurt blender method to attach mosses on my lava rocks. Thanks for the idea [MENTION=57428]shaman.[/MENTION]
More info about this see
http://bolbiaquarium.blogspot.nl/201...e-yoghurt.html
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Waterlogging all pieces hopefully they will not dry completely out during my dry start to attach mosses to hardscape.
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To be more safe to avoid floating spiderwood I zip tied spiderwood pieces to a piece of slate. These will be buried in the substrate. So far it seems promising as pieces sink immediately in a bucket.
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Day 36
Following! The scape looks very promising!
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2nd that. (:Originally Posted by popimac
Following! The scape looks very promising!
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Thank you guys will make an update once it is more green and fish are added.
looking good, don't be to shy with the wood
very nice! Really like your hardscape!
Thanks all! So far I added a lot of RCS and they are eating on the green thread algae. Probably they are very hungry. Buces are melting hopefully they will grow back.
Nice....looks like a forest!!
Thanks!
Day 49
Awesome job bro! Hands down the best scape I've seen so far. Its perfect!
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Thanks means a lot
Day 60
Added 2 "trees" in the back. Not sure about the tree added on the left in the back. The tree added in the middle looks good IMO. Tried to tie some weeping moss from my other scape on some branches. Hard job in tank! Hate to use glue (would be much easier but still). Fish still a little bit blurry due low shutter speed. But when I change it picture gets dark. There are 13 green neon tetra in tank now. I keep 5 of them in another temporary tank to keep bacteria alive for my next scape (that is now in DSM). After that they will be added to the scape.
forest scape 128l day 60 p3 by Nigel H, on Flickr
Added some details (roots) on a few trees.
Not sure what I like more I think with roots but it's close...
What do you think?
With roots
forest scape day 65 128l by Nigel H, on Flickr
No roots
forest scape 128l day 60 p4 by Nigel H, on Flickr
Awesome scape! Must have spent lots of time setting up. Looks very challenging to set up! Any comment / review on your chihiros rgb? am thinking about this and Twinstar!
I like it with roots!
I liked the ones without tho, but i think you could have the best of both by having some trees bare and some trees with extra roots. Just my thoughts though.
Keep up the inspiring scape!
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I think only the thicker trees should have roots
I think it just gotten nicer!! Are you going to attach some moss on the roots?
prefer without. with roots.. doesn't really seem to make sense to me
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