Reply With QuoteBest of luck! I doing fire fighting with my tank at the moment =.="
Hi,
Woke up today with a vision, with hope, and working to create something out of my vision.
I will be making a trip down to Biotope now. Too bad they told me they do not have fissieden. But they have pelia. looking to buy lights,rocks,wood and plants. msybe gex soil. how does that compare to ada as amazonia? acidic? breakdown easily?
photos of step by step setup will b posted tonight, if tank is up.
cheers,christophe
Best of luck! I doing fire fighting with my tank at the moment =.="
step by step photo taking was not possible....
Tank is done, waiting for water to clear before I take a picture.
Approximate size : 1.5*1*1 feet
LIghting : 24w, "Biotope" light
Substrate: ADA AS Amazonia, Malaya, ADA Forest Sand
Filtration: Eheim Hang on Filter
Hardscape: Rocks
Flora: Japan Hair Grass, Normal Hairgrass, Java fern (think it's philippines fern), mm ( i think), pelia, unnamed stem (because I don't know the name)
Fauna: None, Should be shrimps only tank. At most might be boraras maculatus.
I wanted to do a mountain with rocks, hmmm, could not get it as high as I wanted. Gave up. Readjust my "vision", as the titre suggest, it's esperanda, meaning waiting/expecting.
Cheers, Christophe
My interest has wandered! Do U?
You can use some rough pebble to stabilize the soil when you do a mountain, as you pile them add pebble again, the very front you can add slabs to prevent them falling, those slabs just cover them with soil again. IMO
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!!! TIME TO LAY BACK AND RELAX!
A Journey Of A Thousand Miles Begins With A Single Step
my tank is in its 5th day of cycling. this is my first try at a 'mountain', which became a hill
my yamatos are currently in a pail.
though my tank may already be cycled (i used same filters with some mulm, most of the soil was from the tank itself, and use half of the same water), I am giving it another 2 weeks to cycle and for my hairgrass to root themselves.
My yamatos are the 'fierce' type. They will uproot all if I put them in.
Oh yes my dear aquaobsession!
You just gave me an idea! Brilliant!
I just had some headaches because 2 blocks of white cement cannot stick together using wc to paste in the centre. Then I re-read your post, did some search.
^o^Y Time to do something different!!! Out of context stuff!
http://rockscapedesign.ca/photo-gall...alk-patios.php
http://www.allamericangrounds.com/index.php?p=rockscape
Yippie!! Reptiles and Fishies!
Picture la Chris!!
okie i take a picture tonight
but i do not want to disappoint. though it may not be great on picture now, I already have the picture in mind of how the tank should look a few months down the road.
you will see some java fern from the picture that i may remove
and i hhave yet to add fissiden, just could not get them, or rather, growing them faster in my 4 feet tank with chiller (23-25)
picture coming tonight
Cheers, Christophe
Here is a picture
http://www.aquaticquotient.com/galle...9/img_0070.jpg
The java fern looks odd, will remove them soon.
^^" what do you have in mind? Ancient China Burial ground? I find rockscape are difficult to create. Because you want to create a nice rockscape coupled with aquatic plants, look natural yet does not look like a barren land.
Australia is a place where rainfall isn't much, hence rockscape there is like a norm. to them. 1/3 of the population are firefighters, we can see why. Might be a good place to start with for rockscaping searches (on the internet). Note that they have more red sand.
The other way of course is to find exterior scape. House with artificial rockscape and arrangements like the links I posted. Alps is not a good referral material, since it is basically two continents clash against each other, twisted the sea bed on top of the Alps, so there are sea creature fossils found on top; all thanks to plate tectonic movement. How come? The surround area was once sea. The findings is only quite recent years. Few hundreds years back, people already noticed top of Alps got sea creature fossils but could not understand nor explain it.
Last one might be worth looking into is coastal rock beds. Even remote places like Somalia is worth looking into where the Covenant coffin (The one in Indiana Jones / The Bible ) was once housed. That place, is basically like river like sea, surrounded by layers of layers of rock beds of different kinds. I saw the video on Discovery or History Channel...
Well if you run out of ideas, see if you can find photographers who like to take pict. of landscape. 1 picture is enough to trigger your thinking bud. Just that you have to find the right "1 picture".
Somehow I think pelia looks a bit weird for your scape. IMHO, moss might be better choice...
For posting your picture.
1. click on the insert image icon
2. Paste the direct link code. Bingo
Actually if you don't mind some hardwork, you can do the planting virtually.
If you are using some photo editing software such as photoshop or CS, you can actually paste as layers to modify the look here and there. As the layer can inter-cover each other, you simply need to resize them. If that is too hassle, you can use just power point to do it also. Just have to send the pict. forward or backward.
Sakura shrimps added, 5 for $8, from C328.
Intend to add more varieties of shrimps, waiting to see if the current batch does well.
Cheers, Christophe
I can only find 4. 1 is MIA. Maybe it got lost among the rocks.\
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