my first ever aquascape

[boxedfish]

please have a look at my first ever aquascape.. comments are welcome

25cm x 25cm x 30cm nano cube
Plants : mini nana, HC, hairgrass, US fissidern and i am not sure what is the one tied to the bogwood.
fauna : horned and ramhorn snails
soil : ada and some fine light brown sand for the path
lights : 2 clip-on lights, about 20 watts in total, is this enough?
co2 on diffuser
Cooling method : fan
filter : atam HOF

this tank is about 2 weeks old, tried to add some shrimps but died one after another. Guess the tank has not been fully cycled, But the snails are laying eggs. pardon me on a few coloured marbled looking pebbles, was using them to weigh down the HC until later than will remove them.

[dnomyaj]

nice setup and very clear water
sad to hear your shrimps died, but i think you can get some CRS for the setup, i'm sure they'll brighten up the scape even more

[fighting fish]

its better to start off with cheaper shrimps like cherries/malayan first. CRS are not cheap!

[boxedfish]

i started with some cherries, all died 1 by 1, then yamato together with malayan, yamato die first then follow by malayan.. sigh... tomorrow goin to buy some more cheap malayans to try..

[eviltrain]

there maybe something wrong with your water parameter. 2 weeks of cycling is not enough. you might need 4 weeks of cycling at least.

[dnomyaj]

yamato and malayan also died? maybe there's really something wrong with the water parameters like what they have mentioned above. Maybe you'll need some test kits to test the water

i'll take back my idea of you putting in CRS

[boxedfish]

guess i think my water not fully cycled yet... i'm getting bored staring at snails in the tank. haha

[ranmasatome]

First ever scape? This really is pretty impressive.

[boxedfish]

thank u for your kind comment. yup first ever, although i did take references from pictures of other ppl's scape online...

[szxs]

very nice set up

[szxs]

very impressive for a 25 by 25..enjoy looking very much

[jasonchua1982]

Nice setup.....nice tree

Maybe when the mosses gets denser, your tree will be more impressive

[boxedfish]

thanks ppl, managed to buy 50 malayan shrimps and now they are so far happy inside.. 2 casualties in 3 days, much better than last time.

[BFG]

Got potential. Maybe 4-5 setup later can join ADA competition.

[boxedfish]

Got potential. Maybe 4-5 setup later can join ADA competition.

no potential la, just lucky the different element in the setup goes ok with one another. if only this hobby is less time consuming and easier on the wallet, i would have experiment more. 1'll just be happy with 1 setup for now.

[Mikex]

Pretty nice and impressive setup..
50 malayan shrimp in that tank?
issit too much?

[boxedfish]

hmmm i find 50 shrimps inside quite ok.. cos more than half will be hiding and resting most of the time.

[goody992828]

Wow that is amazing, think u have the artistic in build in you. very impressive set up

[BFG]

no potential la, just lucky the different element in the setup goes ok with one another. if only this hobby is less time consuming and easier on the wallet, i would have experiment more. 1'll just be happy with 1 setup for now.

You can. All you need is a standard sized tank and time to do your re-scape. That's how some of the HK guys do it. They have 1 tank but they regularly change their aquascaping. I think a 3ft tank should be your canvas.

[boxedfish]

Wow that is amazing, think u have the artistic in build in you. very impressive set up

thank u... i think being a designer in profession did help a lot.