2nd attempt painted ( Unzan stone mountain scape )

[hann]

My otos, ruby tetra and alexrodi are fine and they are in this ph range for more than a month

[HeMan]

Today Day 28 of my tank

Carpet almost done, HC roots deep into substrate. More pearling and photosynthesis can be seen

Now waiting for the tank to fully mature and cycled.

Shrimps still dying one by one daily from a battalion till now a section probably hehe...

Plants all very green and dense. No melting .


DAY 28

[fatmax]

Very scenic....

[AQMS]

check out the downnoi....

[felix_fx2]

Usually its recommended to only introduce fishes and shrimps when the tank is cycled and the parameters are stable, so adding shrimps before that time (when pH is still very low) wouldn't be so ideal, though its common to see people just buy a large bag of 50 or 100 malayan shrimps and just dump them in their tanks to help clear algae even in the midst of tank cycling, i guess those shrimps are cheap to buy in bulk so people tend to consider them "expendable".

this one rather true, even myself also hire the expendables.

@Heman, you trimmed your tank yet?

[HeMan]

this one rather true, even myself also hire the expendables.

@Heman, you trimmed your tank yet?

I trimmed only Hydrocotyle japan, and a few stalks of Rotala rotundifolia in the centre
between the 2 big stone so that the scenery still look like a pathway in the middle

[HeMan]

I think my tank really lack of few more smalls lava rock to make it complete

Keep looking and looking but no space to put , will block other plant

[felix_fx2]

play with the plants maybe?

rock arrangement normally suffers from weight of the scene not balanced.

your lava rock in the front maybe too small initially. just that feeling.

ask you one thing, got the feeling that the space behind the 2 main rocks like not enough "boomz" ?

[HeMan]

play with the plants maybe?

rock arrangement normally suffers from weight of the scene not balanced.

your lava rock in the front maybe too small initially. just that feeling.

ask you one thing, got the feeling that the space behind the 2 main rocks like not enough "boomz" ?

Bro what you mean by boomz? Fast growth?

My light is more towards the front part if the tank because of HC

Maybe the Rotala behind the rock grow slow

[felix_fx2]

hmm.. how to say ah.

you know it's like not powerful feel when you look at it.
regards to "boomz", i can only ask you to google Mr Ris low videos

[HeMan]

Haha ok I know what you mean la

In fact my tank IMHO plants rocks layout all good except scaping need to improve alot

But over all im quite satisfied with it

[kohanson]

Nice and neat layout..the rocks are really nice. Can I know where youbought all the plants from, especially Hydrocotyle japan?

[HeMan]

Nice and neat layout..the rocks are really nice. Can I know where youbought all the plants from, especially Hydrocotyle japan?

I ordered all the plants from this merchant
http://www.aquaticquotient.com/forum...ght=aardenasia

[kohanson]

I ordered all the plants from this merchant
http://www.aquaticquotient.com/forum...ght=aardenasia

Thanks bro, has just contacted them.

[HeMan]

DAY 35

[thebaldingaquarist]

Nice!
I want to get some hydrocoytle!

Don't know what for though!

[felix_fx2]

Nice!
I want to get some hydrocoytle!

Don't know what for though!

lol, i bought some to farm & I'm not even using it. mindless farming

heman, left side nice. that's the way to trim.

[dhmy2kgto]

Your scape looks awesome. Every plat looks so lust, green and healthy. I think the background in the center looks kinda empty, why not have your background plant cover that gap but trimmed down. Just a suggestion

[thebaldingaquarist]

lol, i bought some to farm & I'm not even using it. mindless farming

heman, left side nice. that's the way to trim.

Please sell me some when farm harvest!

[HeMan]

Your scape looks awesome. Every plat looks so lust, green and healthy. I think the background in the center looks kinda empty, why not have your background plant cover that gap but trimmed down. Just a suggestion

Thanks alot for that idea, actually my concept is to create a mountain scape.

The reason I left the hole is the focal point, to create a pathway leading into the scenic