Just Rescape 3ft

**freezze** · 3rd Sep 2008, 21:25

hi,

Just rescaped my 3ft tank a week ago.

any improvement to be make?

**EvolutionZ** · 3rd Sep 2008, 22:10

the set up looks great! but the scape lacks depth.. and some of the stem plants does not really suits iwagumi scape..
my 2 cents.

**Jervis** · 3rd Sep 2008, 22:13

Very nice combination of background plants... however as mentioned by EvolutionZ the varied backdrop steals away the attention from your nice rockscape.

**Flowerhfanatic** · 4th Sep 2008, 15:46

nice! may i know what are those plants used for foreground?

**Verminator** · 4th Sep 2008, 17:58

Hemianthus Callitrichoides "Cuba" (a.k.a 'HC') is the foreground plant

Wow! I love this scape. Those rocks are simply stunning! Those are exactly the sort of rocks im after for my 2ft scape. What are they exactly?

**freezze** · 4th Sep 2008, 20:47

Thank for viewing.. should i change the background plants to one kind. and i am also thinking of planting hair grass in between the two rockscape.

Originally Posted by EvolutionZ

the set up looks great! but the scape lacks depth.. and some of the stem plants does not really suits iwagumi scape..
my 2 cents.

any way to improve the depth of the landscape.

Originally Posted by Verminator

Wow! I love this scape. Those rocks are simply stunning! Those are exactly the sort of rocks im after for my 2ft scape. What are they exactly?

The rock are call black rock used for fountain landscaping purpose.

**qool** · 4th Sep 2008, 23:45

Can know where you purchase those black rock from, they do make nice rockscape when piled up that way

**Verminator** · 5th Sep 2008, 05:56

Are they piled up or are they one rock? I thought it looked like one big rock, then with a flat section in the middle with another rock on the far right.

**Verminator** · 5th Sep 2008, 06:08

Randomly did a google search, only brief (as in 5 minutes) and found a place within the UK where "black rock" is formed naturally. No idea if its the same stuff as what you have, but it looks similar.

Porthmadog in Wales

Somewhere i holidayed couple of years ago. I may venture there again soon in the next couple of weeks for a 2 day stay perhaps, see what i find around the beaches

**freezze** · 7th Sep 2008, 00:48

Originally Posted by Verminator

Are they piled up or are they one rock? I thought it looked like one big rock, then with a flat section in the middle with another rock on the far right.

the rock-scape on the left is made up of 12 pieces, while the right is just one.

**Verminator** · 7th Sep 2008, 02:14

12 pieces, wow. That must of taken some organisation to get them all nicely snug and looking good.

**freezze** · 7th Sep 2008, 23:11

Done some changes. move one small piece of the rock to the centre to break the big rock into two. Is it better?

Before

After

**freezze** · 29th Sep 2008, 03:44

Updated on the tank..

HC not doing too well.. still have not spread out after one month.. look like the substrate is not good for HC. And the Eleocharis vivipara (Tall Hairgrass) on the right is dying off. Is my lighting not adequate?

Having some algae problem, Green spot algae on rock n glass and also Hair algae on the fissure. So most likely not the lighting issue?

Lighting used : 39W x 2 (6hr)
39W x 4 (4hr)

Cleaning crew: 4 yamoto and one oto.

Other fish: 2 lemon tetra (not been feed since day 5 and they still look ok)

Decided to change the tape grass on the left background, any suggestion on what to replace it with.

Thankx.

**Verminator** · 29th Sep 2008, 04:59

What lighting tubes do you use. 39W of what exactly?

Any chance of an updated pic to see visually whats going on?

**freezze** · 29th Sep 2008, 18:44

Using 4 3" T5 light tubes for lighting

**Verminator** · 29th Sep 2008, 20:29

Perhaps up your photo period to 8 hours in total of 4x39W T5? I don't know. Seems adequate lighting to me. Your tank isnt deeper than standard 3footers is it?

HC is surviving, just not spreading. I don't know what to suggest for this.