So this tank has grown in well, was nice and stable only requiring water changes. What better time to rip it apart for a new scape? I lost the puffer a bit back. Not quite sure why, he just stopped eating so no worries about fauna right now. So no ugly heater/thermometer. House tends to stay ~70 in the summer and the light warms up the water a bit too.
I had always planned that once I got the hardscape materials in for the 40G that I would set aside some of it to re-scape this nano. I got some nice Zebra stone from CML that I planned on breaking up. It had a good portion of white attached to one of the stones that would have been buried in the substrate if I had used it in the large tank so I chose to try something a little different than I've seen before and use white stone in the nano. It has always been my intent to try to make each of the tanks in the house as different as possible. So...
Its low light (only 8W fluorescent) but I had been growing some sprigs of dwarf hairgrass in there before the tear down and it was spreading amongst the thicket of Dwarf Sag. I decided to use mostly HG with a couple of twigs of Sag in the back right with a baby Narrow leaf Java fern.
Its going to take a good while for the HG to adjust and start spreading, I topped it during planting and a good amount of it had been in my high light CO2 tank. Once it fills in though and I can trim it all at once I think the green against the white stone is going to create a cool look. Hopefully I can get a little algae growing on the stones too.
Main stone:
Far shot:
3/4:
and finally a fts:
Its a little rough looking right now. I did a bunch of AS munching when I was working on the scape so no doubt the plant life got a good blast of stuff from stirred up AS. I've even had more tannins being released into the water since the re-scape even though the soil is pretty mature.
Now that I look at it while taking these pictures I think a small stone to the right of the largest one is needed to bring everything together. Kind of an odd empty spot there. Happy to hear any thoughts criticisms.
ps. Doh forgot to put my piece of black poster board between the filter and glass. Pardon the bio-balls.
