2014 2 feet tank setup

[fireblade]

Finally moved my fat fingers to rescape my tank after 3 years of no rescape...

[fireblade]

looks like need a few more water change to remove the "dust"....




Some of the wood floated... sianz... will wait for them to sink then position them...





still thinking of what to keep inside...
cardinal, or Boraras brigittae or galaxy (worry that they keep hiding)

[Ingen]

Looking good. Pretty sure the Galaxy will be hiding most of the time you are infront of the tank and out when you are far away, happen to mine always haha. Maybe Cory Pygmy and neon green?

I see a snail in there, you placed it or it just hitch hike in? I been clearing out 100s and I mean 100s of pond snails daily from my 1 ft cube for the past three days. Going to continue to do it for as long as I see them in it.

[fireblade]

the snails has been staying inside since the old setup...
lazy to clear them so just leave them inside they will die off after awhile leaving the empty shells behind..

have changed water this morning.. and upon adding water, the dust come back again....
really feel like taking out the soil and give it rinse then slowly scoop back...

[bennyc]

Looking good. Pretty sure the Galaxy will be hiding most of the time you are infront of the tank and out when you are far away, happen to mine always haha. Maybe Cory Pygmy and neon green?

I see a snail in there, you placed it or it just hitch hike in? I been clearing out 100s and I mean 100s of pond snails daily from my 1 ft cube for the past three days. Going to continue to do it for as long as I see them in it.

Buy snail trap, will be much much faster.

[bennyc]

the snails has been staying inside since the old setup...
lazy to clear them so just leave them inside they will die off after awhile leaving the empty shells behind..

have changed water this morning.. and upon adding water, the dust come back again....
really feel like taking out the soil and give it rinse then slowly scoop back...

From the photo, do not look like 2ft. looks bigger.

Dust really a lot. can either add a new layer of soil to top it and bury the dust or solve the problem once and for all , like you mentioned, take out wash and put back.

[limz_777]

just siphon the dust area out will be less work

[bluebubbles]

Substrate will get dusty when they matured. It will be easier to siphone the dust out and top up new substrate slowly instead of re-doing everything unless there is no flora or fauna inside. Gallaxy will hide most of the time. Your tank looks good for oto and amano shrimps to help clean up dusty area on rocks surface.

[hann]

I am lucky that my 4 galaxy do not hide at all though they are quite timid. They always stay near the bottom searching for food

[seudzar]

Try get the burmese golden spotted danio, currently only qianhu has. Very very nice and totally not a shy species and they school well..

[fireblade]

yesterday evening went home the tank was quite clear...
so took a photo..



planted more marsilea on the left last night ...

[fireblade]

added back the floated wood..
looks more messy though..

[blue33]

Looking good

[fireblade]

reposition some of the wood...

[Ingen]

I like this better, well done bro.

[fireblade]

I like this too... not so empty in the middle thanks bro!

[Apistoinka]

Awesome scape for a 2ft and the scape make the tanks look 3ft...

[fireblade]

Thanks!!

Awesome scape for a 2ft and the scape make the tanks look 3ft...

update with side view shots to show the plant growth.....

[zhaoronglim]

Get 20 galaxy rasbora and they won't hide. They are small so you don't have to worry about overcrowding. I have 20 in my 2 feet.

[fireblade]

I've got 5 Galaxy inside testing water with 5 baby guppies.. Cannot find nice healthy Galaxy. . Those at 328 have sinken tummy