Reply With Quotei like it!! reminds me of a little river!!
This is my new scape
Spec
38"x23"x15"h
Eheim 2217
Dennerle pressurised CO2
Lighting - 1 x 30w aquaglo T8, 1 x 36w 6500k compact T5, 1 x 36w 4000k compact T5.
Substrate - Soil mix with fine gravel and sand
Plants
Bolbitis heudelotii
Crypt albida
C. balansae
C. lucens
C. undulatus 'red'?
C. wendtii 'brown'
C. wendtii 'Tropica'
Echinodorus amazonicus
E. uruguayensis
Limnobium laevigatum
and verious mosses
The scape isn't finished i may add some more wood to the right hand side. I will also be edging the sand foreground with moss and using probable Eleocharis to cover the gravel till the crypts fill in.
Please give any tips or view.
Regards.
Last edited by benny; 19th Jun 2007 at 20:54. Reason: resize image
Steven
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i like it!! reminds me of a little river!!
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Where are the fishes?
I would have liked it even more if you had used another crypt instead of E. amazonicus, E. urguayensis.
I think it will look great when the crypts are more grown in. Do update us on it's progress.
ck
Nice!
I like the way you positioned the woods. What are the type of mosses you have?
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Cheers for the comments guys,
ranmasatome that's what I wanted it to look like a nice section of a river.
CK there isn't any fish in yet because the tanks only been set up for 2 weeks I'm itching to put some in though, I’m not sure of what fish to put in I was thinking of a large shoal of small tetras (cardinals etc), hatchets, Dicrossus and corys but I’m now less sure as most of the plants of from Asia I think it may be better to have more barbs/rasbora type fish, however I have a pair a Pelvicachromis taeniatus ‘dehane’ which are in another tank I have that I’m thinking of adding so I could try and use fish from as many continents as possible.
I'm not too happy with the Echinodorus but i think they will stay or something similar i wanted a plant that would give some nice vivid green and a different leaf shape. I'm don't know of any crypts that could give as good a result.
Richie i have peacock moss which looks really nice and is growing suprisingly quickly, there is also singapore moss, taiwan moss and another unknown moss that really nice that looks similar to willow.
Steven
sweet...must have spend a lot of time setting up. BTW how you hold those single piece of DW into the substrate at a inclined degree ?
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Actually there are quite a lot of crypts that you can use to substitue for the Echin... however, i dont know how readily available they are over there..
So in your case, it might be considered a rare plant and sometimes even expensive...
Skysky most of the wood is pushed a inch or so into the gravel which help them stay in possition, the largest piece and the piece pointing to the left in the centre are balanced quite precisely with a few stones, it took along time and i hate doing any re-scaping incase i knock over any of the pieces of wood.
ranmasatone out of interest what type of crypts do you think would work there?
Steven
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Well.. if we are not talking about price or availability..or the environment which some of these plants need to grow....then...
Cryptocoryne bullosa (probably expensive, rare and hard to keep alive, not too huge, leaves about 15cm?)
Cryptocoryne keei (same as above..but probably easier to keep alive)
Cryptocoryne hudoroi (same..but quite easy to keep alive..leaves are larger about 25cm)
Cryptocoryne usteriana (maybe not so expensive..easy to keep alive, leaves about same size as previous and have a slight redish underside)
All of the above have some form of bullated leaves so will give the aquarium interesting leave shapes.
There should be more..but we may be venturing into the really rare and expensive stuff.. no fun.. besides.. the aquarium is for enjoyment.. not to burn holes in our pockets..haha..
I have decided to replace the Echinodorus I would like to replace them with like ranmasatome said some large crypts, i can get hold of hudoroi and usteriana but as expected they are quite expensive, would C. cordata be an option or would it not get big enough?
there are two other options, 1. Microsorum tied to wood or 2. Hygrophila.
What do you think?
Steven
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Hi Steven..
The thing about C. cordata is that there are so many variants out there. The issue is still quite confusing.. but depening on which variant you are getting it may still work out.
If you can find the exact variant species you are able to get.. let us know...and we can see what we can do to help..
Hi, the store just has it labled as C. cordata, there is also blassii but i'm not to keen on that i looks a little to colourful for my liking, any way i've decided to go for java fern, i think it will look good as most of the plants on wood are mosses i think this will give it an added dimention, i'll post some pics when i've put them in.
In the meantime heres a few pics of the first fish i've added, -
a pair of Pelviachromis teaniatus 'dehane'
male
female
I've had these ever since i brought the tank but have only just added them a week or so ago, the male was extremely shy in the holding tank and showing no sign of attraction to the female, but since they've been in the new tank things have looked a lot better and there are already signs they may breed in the near future.
Steven
Hey man,
Coincidence. I'm also setting a crypt tank for my Dehane. Do they cause any damage to your plants so far?
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Not at all there ideal fish for planted tanks, I'd say though, they do like the sand i have in the tank and spend alot of time picking through it. Good look with you Dehanes.Originally Posted by leeruisheng
Steven
Your setup looks great...
You must have spent a lot of time and effort into this setup.
What sand are you using? Do you use any base fert?
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yeah the set up took a long time, it gets quite annoying tying moss to wood for hours on end.
For the substrate i used garden soil, its not used very oftern but i thought that i'd give it a go, the sand that i used is just plain play sand.
Steven
Hi,
nice scaping you have and definetly great pictures as well!
Cheers.
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