My tank from start to its end

[fighting fish]

My tank humble beginnings, very unimpressive setup that resembles more like a swamp than anything else.
consist of xmas moss, needle leaves and a few strands of e.tenullus


After adding more plants given by my coach/friend. still not very visually pleasing but much better in my opinion.



after a couple weeks of growth, planted some HG as foreground albeit not enough. starting to look slightly better with xmas moss
growing out nicely.

[zoothefreak]

I like it! very wild and natural looking...

[fighting fish]

I like it! very wild and natural looking...

thanks! however this is only at the middle stage of my scape. still find the tank too barren. will update more pics of the final stage of my tank.

[fighting fish]

this time round as you can see, i've decided to shift the focus to the right side of the tank. seems better to me. also first stage of algae bloom! but easily controlled with the addition of 2 x nerite snaills and a packet of 50 malayans. interesting thing is that all my malayan snails turned red. added 30 pieces of cardinal tetras. notice to the left bottom, i believe it is some local eriocaulon i found while fishing.

[Xianghao]

i like how your narrow leaf java fern creates 2 nice messy bushes..

[Bettafanatic]

It looks ''messy'' with style. Nice setup there

[fighting fish]

thanks that was the style i was trying to achieve, the "wild" messy look.

let me share my final specs before i show my final photo.

2x1x1.5
24w T5HO
ehiem 2213 classic
gex + sarawak sand mix (quite a disaster actually)
no c02 or liquid fert dosing. running on low tech

plants consist of
needle leaves java fern
xmas moss
e.tennullus
dwarf hairgrass
us fissidens
50 cent size nana
rotala Sp. Green

livestock consist of
cardinals tetras x30
nerite snails x 2
malayans x 50
cherries x 20

[Captain Telecredible]

hahaha... lookin forward to your final photo..

[fighting fish]

plants fully planted in, time for them to grow to fill up the entire tank but alas my tank was infected by anchorworms and i had to decomm it to catch the cardinals out for treatment. the 2nd photo is the last photo i took of it before its decomm . Oh well time for another tank!

[green palette]

whao. nice tank! apart from the pesky algae! may i ask how long have you kept this tank for?

[fighting fish]

thanks, tank was running for 2-3 months. running on low-tech. algae issues was getting better when disaster struck, anchorworm outbreak! so just snap the last photo and decommed the tank

[green palette]

whao how tragic! but how did the worms get in? i hope i don't get worms in my tank as well!!

[insider]

Is a good tank if anchorworm did not get in. It can be alot more better.

[slowcat]

Just being curious. Would it not be better if the return and inlet are not so close together? For circulation's sake?

Cheers

[fighting fish]

i think the anchorworm got in from the dwarf hairgrass i got from one of the farms. will always remember to wash the plants i get super thoroughly in the future.

yeap i did place them at opposite corners after all my scaping was done. it can be seen in the last pic.

i believe that this tank should look at its best given another 2-3 months of trimming and for all the other plants to grow out.

[gnihc11]

Keep us updated....thanks.

[fighting fish]

Keep us updated....thanks.

haha i wish i could bro...but my tank has been decommed already. due to an outbreak of anchorworms, in which i have to destroy the scape to catch out the cardinal tetras for treatment.

another new scape coming up though!

[charonstix]

Hi bro, nice setup, sad to hear about the decom, looking forward to your new scape though, good luck!

[fighting fish]

Turns out the end is just the beginning! This is the current state of my tank after starting from scratch again.

The bogwood you see here (I call it spider) is made by combining the 2 bogwoods in my first setup. Stones are normal granite stones that I picked up :X

Anyway LS includes:
20 x boraras brigittae
10 x X-ray tetra
1 x 1 dollar sucker fish
1 x nerite snails
2 x starlight pleco
lotsa lotsa malayans + cherries (seem to be breeding rampantly)

here are some pics

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PS: sorry for the crappy pics, taken with my iPhone

[Apistoinka]

Nice one bro after the decom... Still look wonderful and wild... Like it... But if the picture will be bigger it will be nicer to see... Show more pics of your tank from different angle...