My 4footer's new scape

[Justikanz]

Hi hi... Time for another update... Comments please!

Added a lot more plants! And fish...

My Ehiem suddenly decided to spew a LOT of fine particles into the tank water JUST at the moment when I am going to take pics ... So, you can see the pics show very cloudy water...

Tank now:


Bioload now:
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Flora:

Java moss
Taiwan moss
Christmas moss
Pelia (all over the tank bed)
Marimo ball (wedged inbetween the wood branches)
Fissiden sp. (confirmed dying)
Vallisneria sp.
Hemianthus micranthemoides (MM)
Hydrocotyle leucocephala (pennywort)
Eleocharis vivipara (long hairgrass)
Eleocharis acicularis (hairgrass)
Elatine triandra (APP) (Lawn shrunk A LOT)
Echinodorus tenellus
Echinodorus x barthii (I think it could be Echinodorus var 'Red Rubin')
Crytocoryne wendtii var.
Crytocoryne x willisii
Limnobium sp. (frogbits, floating plant)
Rotala sp. (Still dunno what species it is...)
Hottonia inflata
A. Gracillis
Marsilea sp.
Stargrass (hopefully it stays low and becomes a lawn to replace the APP)

Fauna:
Gymnocorymbus ternetzi, Black skirt tetra (10x), ~4yrs old - had not been seen spawning for some time liao...
Puntius titteya, Cherry barb (~10x), ~1-2yrs old, never seen them spawn
Paracheirodon axelrodi, cardinal tetra (~20x), ~2yrs old
Betta splendens, Siamese fighting fish, 1x female, ~3yrs old, tank police woman...
Crossocheilus siamensis, SAE (2x), bigger one often turn yellowish
Nannostomus sp., pencilfish (at least 2 types, ~10 golden and 1 three-lined)
Aplocheilichthys normani, lampeye (9x)
Otocinclus sp. (~4x)
Dario dario(9x)
Badis badis (3x)
Corydorus simulis (1x) (Finding to add more)
Corydoras hastatus (~19x)
Boraras urophthalmoides (~45x)
Trichopsis pumila, sparkling gourami (~6x)
Ember tetras (52x)
White Cloud Mountain Minnows (~9x)
Yamato shrimps (~6x)
Red-nose shrimps (~6x)
Snails (horned and zebra) (>10x)

Still have 1 peacock goby, but I saw it struggling last night after the filter spew the fine particles... So dunno if it is still alive...

Right side after trimming:


Left side aftering adding lots of crypts, rotala and marsilea:


Any comments, please?? Wonder whether the judges will laugh if I enter the pics to the APC contest...

[Fei Miao]

If you can replicate the left side as the right with the Vallisneria sp., Hemianthus micranthemoides ... etc.. plants, that would cover the equipments and looks better... water still cloudy though

[Justikanz]

As in remove the long hair, keep the rotala and plant vallis?

(The rotala looks horrible now cos the stems were choked by the MM previously... It was at the right side. Hope new leaves will grow...)

[Fei Miao]

As in remove the long hair, keep the rotala and plant vallis?

(The rotala looks horrible now cos the stems were choked by the MM previously... It was at the right side. Hope new leaves will grow...)

Yes... it's kinda of messy now.

[Justikanz]

Hmm... Looks like cannot escape the clutches of the vallis... I actually gave away several bunches...

Ok, the vallis will go along the side and back, like that on the right side, replacing the position of the long hairgrass. Where should the rotala be placed? Exactly infront of the filter inlet so as to block it from view?

[Fei Miao]

Hmm... Looks like cannot escape the clutches of the vallis... I actually gave away several bunches...

Ok, the vallis will go along the side and back, like that on the right side, replacing the position of the long hairgrass. Where should the rotala be placed? Exactly infront of the filter inlet so as to block it from view?

... probably have to try and see if it looks good.