Dragon cove is no more, new scape is up.
More of an iwagumi style utilizing wood as opposed to rocks.
Likely start as iwagumi for the moment, then later on fill the background with stems to change things up a bit.
Tank will be dry started so fissidens can attach to the wood, aiming to have it filled around xmas time.
i agree but the bristlenose pleco kept harassing it so it wasn't growing well/getting uprooted.. if i could catch the dang thing i would replant the h.c. I did try some monte carlo in that spot but after a few days it was all floating.
This has a new scape, likely start a new journal for it once i flood it, but for now its in dsm so the fissidens can attach. here are the last shots before the tank came down.
really overgrown and neglected a few weeks back
I took the myrio out while i played with new scape ideas, really brighten up the tank taking that weed out
breaking things down
Test filling, making sure everything will stay put etc.
Had to come look when i saw "dragon", and was not disappointed. Beautiful tank, at every stage it was at. Also love the island themed breeding tank. I want blyxa so bad!
went ahead and flooded the 60p earlier this week.
started getting cyano from to much moisture around the substrate so flooded it before it got out of hand, been blasting co2 + high nitrates while churning the soil every day killed it off, did a large w/c to lower nitrates and get the water params in check. luckily most the fissidens stayed attached to the wood.
After a w/c, hence the gh booster powder in the photos and no co2 mist.
Fissidens was chopped up, rubbed against the driftwood and the tank was sealed in dsm for 2 weeks, then filled up. This method works for most any moss, and it attached very easily to wood and porous rock.
crappy cell pic for now.. trimmed back the front half of the u.g to keep it from creeping forward to much, added erio compressum behind the parkeri. Moved the tonina to the left side. not sure i like the s.belem on the left side, maybe ill do compressum on both sides eventually. Everything is growing well though, slow and easy and manage.
Are your fish trying to mate or playing ring around the rosie? And I wanted to ask you about your hanging fixture, are those just rods you screwed at the back?
Its just conduit from the hardware store, use standard conduit holders and screw them to the back of the cabinet. They usually sell rubber/plastic end caps that will fit the pipe so its not an open hole on the ends. Just use a conduit bender to get the shape you want, you can probably just 'borrow' the conduit bender in the store, just bend the ends of the pipe to the approximate length you need in the store, then you wont have to pay for the bender which can be expensive.
Your CPDs look really good, as does the whole scape. When that Cuba is grown into a thick carpet it will look really sharp. I love the choice of fish, Cuba, and fissidens, perfect plants with nice tiny leaves that are great for keeping scale in a nano scape. I have a hard time keeping plants like that free of algae. Nice work!
back to a simpler layout, h.c , u.g, s. repens and mini fissidens. crappy cell shot for now. I think im gonna add 10 red neons from my 90p to coax the cpd's into coming out more, the tall right side driftwood is actually hollow on the back side and they hide in there about 90% of the time unfortunately.
chopped it up and rubbed it on the wood, dsm for at least 2 weeks. You can always do this with a bucket..put the wood in and saran wrap the top, stick the bucket outside under the sun for a few weeks.
it will cover whats exposed to the light, the back sides of the wood wont fill in.
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