2ft updated Dutch style scape.

[Wild Ginger]

Hey ya guys, it's been a while since the last tank. So for this one, i'm bringing over one of the tanks from "planted paradises" to a new thread.

Here's the tank after 4 months with NO CO2 under 36WPL and running on a sponge filter. Fauna includes my adorable loaches as well as my red noses and the gorgeous endlers in it.



Regards,
Phillip.

[juggler]

Nice tank! I "noticed" it among the many tanks in the vivarium post lately.
Do you run filter or CO2?
BTW - I also noticed those red-nosed fish lately in fish shops. What's the name? Any information about them in the web?

[Fei Miao]

Nice layout! How often you trimmed the plants to keep them that low?

[Nevada]

Very neat indeed ... the wood also make a good focal point

[ranmasatome]

KF...
those fishes are Sawbwa resplendens..family : Cyprinidae. south ease asian i think...

i got them at colourful aquarium..the one next to NA..

[Wild Ginger]

Thanks Ranmasatome, just to add these fishes love very clean waters and highly oxygenated waters also. They do exceptionally well in groups of minimum 6 as the alpha will then lead the group. Also, when fully stable, their bodies are a shimmering light blue coupled with an intense red "nose" and 2 distinctive red dots on their tail fin.

Here's a closeup on a few of them in the tank.



And here's the tank initially 4 months ago. .......absolute wreck i must say


The tank needed pruning back every week and over time, the leaves size reduced to almost 50% and side shoots appeared slowly. I trimmed it back keeping the shape and now after 4 months it's come to this stage.

There's still a few more gaps that needed to be filled in but soon in time, it'll be much more denser.


Regards,
Phillip.