Reply With QuoteIF you had wanted... could have used those muddy used ada for emersed crypt plantation.. i find it works really well..haha..
Nice first few hours of set up..keke..
As for foreground.. moss does fine.. but may have to trim everynow and then...
hi guys.. well, its me again.. as above, this time round gone back to the good old Low tech
started my work today on taking out 10kg worth of ADA amazonia I which is rougly 10months old.
and also uprooted all my crypts which i am going to use for my new scape..
obviously.. the tank become super cloudy. soon, i
started taking out those ada soil and placed in a plastic bag.. as i reach the bottom half layer.. guess the ada soil have already broken down and became really muddy... kind of smelly as well..ended up i threw them away..
a picture to share
(sort of disgusting.)
oh well.. anyway, spent the whole morning cleaning my tank.
and heres my new tank specs:
60x30x36cm.
36watt PL lighting.
no co2, simply daily Excel dosing.
no other ferts.
Substrate ADA II amazonia.
fauna : Apistogrammas and Corydoras hasbrosus.
flora(for now) : Crypt. Wendtti 'green', Crypt. wendtti 'brown', Crypt. parva, us fissiden, taiwan moss and Needle leave java ferns.
filling up the tank to a level when i can start planting..
theres another bog wood to be placed on the left... have not decided to put anot.
right side of tank.. bog wood tied with us fissiden and taiwan moss.. and surrounded by crypts. wendtti green..
for the back, i should be planting Rotala sp 'green'.
tank filled up! bog wood floated mid way.. and i had to use 2 rocks to pin it down.. water slightly clouded due to the wood
threw in all the plants which i have not decided not to use anot..
comments please?
was wondering should i use moss as my foreground, or leave it bare?
Last edited by EvolutionZ; 16th May 2008 at 20:14.
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IF you had wanted... could have used those muddy used ada for emersed crypt plantation.. i find it works really well..haha..
Nice first few hours of set up..keke..
As for foreground.. moss does fine.. but may have to trim everynow and then...
yea thought of doing so.. but i got no space for emersed crypts.. so ended up threw them away..
i might just use those taiwan moss on mesh as foreground...
erm. sorry buy why farm? become of my crypts and moss?
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Dont use taiwan... they will invade everything in no time...
then what should i use then?
Mini pelia
mini pellia will take 1year to form a nice lawn!.. haha
worth the effort!
haha.. i guess i will use moss instead.. anyway, plan to change the us fissiden that is tied to the bog wood to something else though.. might be peacock moss =)
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Bro.. Try tying weeping moss on the bogwood will make it very nice like a old tree but water temp must be cold..
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if water temp not cold will weeping die? ard 28 degrees
yea thought of it.. but my tank's temp hover around 28C daily.. guess weeping moss wont look as nice in this temp...
Another exciting journey... more pix please
still considering leaving the left side with moss or having another bog wood there.. haha
day 2.
did some sort of a minor rescaping today.
and also bought "spider" moss from a LFS. lets see when
it grows out.. does the fronds branches out like a spider.
anyway.. tied the spider moss to my bog wood.. and shifted it to the middle..
used Needle leaves javafern as back ground..
still haven't decide on what moss to use as foreground though..
my Crypts...
close up.
angle shot.
sorry for the cloudy water... even after 6 hours of minor rescaping.. tank still slightly cloudy
hmm.. i think you need more plants to make the center "island" type of scape look nice
currently the bogwood centerpiece seems a little too small still
yea.. getting more crypts to fill the side.
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As lee mentioned.. there is too much negative space on each side of the bog wood.. for a central scape.. you need more presence from the bog wood, its not just the plants. But since bog wood cannot grow in size, it would be better if you could shift it off-center. Alternatively.. you could add more pieces of bogwod to make this one look bigger... ..
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