Feide Office Desk Tank - Deserted Shore

**feide** · 5th Jan 2016, 17:31

Hi all AQers

I did a small setup on my office desk few months back. Having a scape should be quite relaxing and soothing during stressful times at work…

Very used to doing high tech steroid driven tanks for my previous tanks, so decided to do something different - a simple low tech tank and see how things develop slowly.
Ultimately this tank is supposed to let me relax, not add to my work.
Taken a few pictures then - almost 10 months back (just using phone camera so not really high quality).
Anyway, the tank matured quite a bit and look quite differently now. Will try to take some pictures the next few days.

The first inhabitant of the tank.

**Apistoinka** · 5th Jan 2016, 21:37

Nice simple scape...

**Ingen** · 6th Jan 2016, 11:15

Do a shot of the scape without the tank in frame. I think it make the scape feel larger than it is haha.

**limz_777** · 6th Jan 2016, 15:13

if no windelov and fish , might fool many people , why dont go with shrimps ?

**Goalkeeper** · 6th Jan 2016, 17:44

Waiting for updates. Nice and simple!!

**feide** · 7th Jan 2016, 00:02

Originally Posted by Apistoinka

Nice simple scape...

Thanks Apistonika!

Originally Posted by Ingen

Do a shot of the scape without the tank in frame. I think it make the scape feel larger than it is haha.

Yup, I am struggling to get a decent picture of the tank. Picture is always either over exposed or you will see reflection of me on the glass.

Originally Posted by limz_777

if no windelov and fish , might fool many people , why dont go with shrimps ?

Bingo. I have shrimps (yellow and tiger) and boraras maculatus now.
The betta had passed away... My initial plan was actually to do a betta tank.

Originally Posted by Goalkeeper

Waiting for updates. Nice and simple!!

Thank you Goalkeeper, will try to get some pictures. It looks quite different now.

**feide** · 9th Jan 2016, 00:00

Managed to get some pictures.
Quality quite crappy though...

Can see that the windelov grew quite a bit.

Recently added a wood with moss from NA. Mr Chan told me it is mini fissidens. Any bros can help to confirm (please see last pic)?
Other than that, only change is willow moss is replaced by spiky moss.

**Donut the Donkey** · 10th Feb 2016, 02:36

Loving this scape! Good job. Hard to see the fronds from the pictures but from what I can see, does seem like Mini Fissidens. Maybe a pro like UA or some other guru can help get a positive ID.

**Ryan Peh** · 7th Apr 2016, 14:12

Hey I'm pretty curious how big your office or office desk is that you're able to put a fish tank with all the wires and plugs etc... Isn't it very troublesome to do water changes all these?
Do you mind sharing a few photos of your entire office space and desk!!
And also, I have to say that your one ft tank is really impressive!