hi guys. few days ago. i rescaped my 2ft glosso tank
heres my tank specs :
tank size : 2x1x1.3(LxBxH)
lighting : 2x36watt 65k PL.(4 - 5wpg)
substrate : ADA amazonia
filter : Ehiem 2213
co2 : 2 - 2.5 bps.
method of diffusing : ceramic diffusor
fert: nutrafin NPK, iron and Trace( using EI method)
flora: back ground : tonina "manuas" aka tai yang gu jing "straight leaves" , Tonina "belem" aka tai yang gu jing "curved leaves" , Tape grass.
Mid ground : US fissiden on wood. Tonina "manuas" plantlets, gu jing, downoi and red tiger lotus
Foregound: tonina "belem" plantlets and japanese hair grass
Fauna: 4x baby platinium angle, 3x black phamtom tetra, 3 otos, 10+ malayan shrimps.
heres some picture taken using motorola V3x. decent quailty pictures will be update on thursday when i got back my cam
Before:
after:
my porpagation ground for tonina " manuas"
red tiger lotus and plantlet.
US fissiden on wood. seems like its having BBA on it...
might be due to grown too close together and no water flow
had dose some excel using string right onto some bba
thats all for now!.. hope my japanese hair grass spreed and cover as a lawn!
thanks!
my 2 cents comment:
left and center midground looks abit odd
the wood in the center too squarish, looks kinda like a brick
and the flow from back- to fore- ground has too big a disparity
the height dos not flow down from back- to fore- ground smoothly
yes, im still improving it haha..
im getting a small bog wood. with some branches.. replacing the middle wood.
and in waiting new stocks of tonina manus to come then i'll improve on the depth.
and the left side are waiting to be sold.. all the tonina belem plantlets
What will your focal point be?
Having a row of Tonina makes the scape looks rigid.
Rather, I might want to suggest you bunch them up.
It is okay that the bottom leaves die due to lack of light.
You can easily cover them up with other plants of suitable height like Crypts, B.japonica or E.tenellus.
As a planted tank, looks like you got pretty decent plant growth. When the hairgrass settle in, it will be a nice lush carpet lawn.
As an aquascape, I think it's a bit bare and not much of a 'scene'. You might want to rearrange the background a bit and perhaps add one or two other plant type to make it more interesting. Do have a look at some of the tanks in the gallery for inspiration.
Cheers,
I have dwarf cichlids in my tanks! Do you?
I agree that the scape does look artificial and rigid, especially with the tonina "wall" and the blocky fissiden wood. perhaps you could bunch up the tonina as vincent mentioned and move the red lotus towards the background, perhaps add 1-2 more lotus plants to get a denser growth...in time it will grow tall with bigger leaves and would look good as a corner plant. the angelfish would love to make the lotus bunch their home/hideout.
hi guys. heres some photos using FujiFilm FinePix F31fd
overall shot
close up of red bba after shooting excel.
my tai yang gu jing "straight leaves" propagation
my angel running away from camera
my red tiger lotus
finding food
black phamtom tetra
thanks bro. will be going NA or c328 tomorrow to look out for bog woodsOriginally Posted by illumnae
maybe i'll bunch them and plant.
Yippie!! Reptiles and Fishies!
I think your tetras are more commonly known as black skirt tetra or black widow tetra... scientifically also known as Gymnocorymbus ternetzi.
They are definitely not black phantom tetra.
If you plan from the 1st picture by growing more plants on the right to form golden ratio, it may have turned out to be a very nice scape. The slightly red plants should remain to give a contrast. Your glosso was doing well in the 1st picture.
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The 1st picture indeed have alot of potential with the appropriate hardscape and plant mass...
hi guys, i rescaped my tank yesterday. removing the blocky wood in the middle. heres some pictures.
the hardscape.. all wood tied with Spiky moss and rock slabs.
After removing the wood and tonina "manuas" tank was a bit cloudy.
after planting 2 pots of tape grass as back ground. tank was quite clody.. had to stop 15minutes before i continue.
After placing the hard scape in..
tank was very cloudy.. hard to see though the water.
tank overview after more than 12 hours from the last picture. finally cloudiness settled.
a more close up picture of my wood and rock slabs.
the middle focal wood is taller than my tank... im trying to grow some spiky moss emmersely
US fissiden on mesh.. i went to bleach the us fissiden when i took out them from the blocky wood. guess i dose too much bleach.. bba is killed.. but us fissiden is browning
my Gu Jing, after i dose iron. it is growing new leaves.. but yellow leaves are contracting BBA
in between the woods.. i planted some jap hg.. hope to see a lawn there too soon.
my red tiger lotus plantlets is growing out the 4th leaves
my oto.. possible for them to be a pair?.. they are always swimming and playing together.. wonder if they got do their job in cleaning algae...
thats all for now.. feel free to give me comments!
thanks!
How about replacing the rock sheets with stones instead?
acctually i intend to put stones instead of rock slabs.. but i cant find any suitable small nice rocks...
think i will get more rock slabs to have a nicer and more natural look
The most recent effort looks a lot better!! Looks like you are getting the hang of it!
Cheers,
I have dwarf cichlids in my tanks! Do you?
thanks alot bro.. this tank won't be this nice if without AQ
some updates here..
a peak into my storeroom.. with 2 wooden plate drilled to wall meant for me to do my maintance cleaning and any stuffs about my planted..
tank overview..
seems like my emmersed spiky moss is growing new fronds!
look at the 4th leaves.. lotus grow very fast indeed...
did some trimming today to my jap hg and gu jing...
trimmed off some bba infect and yellowish leaves
luckily.. the all leaves broken gu jing survived.. new leaves are growing out.. trimmed away all those melting leaves.. now its a botak
just 2 days.. new spiky moss fronds are growing out!
thanks for viewing!..
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