ADA Mini-S: Riven Tanglewood

[jinx©]

Originally Posted by Karackle

I love how this tank has grown in. It's very simple, and yet very complex. I dig it. Gorgeous as usual.

Well said and along the same lines as I was thinking. At first glance it looks like a fairly simple layout, but the more you look the more your eyes are drawn into all the small details and diversity of textures.

Very well done UG. I've pretty much just lurked along with your journals without commenting so far, but all your tanks look great. You have a good eye.

[Karackle]

Originally Posted by jinx©

Well said and along the same lines as I was thinking. At first glance it looks like a fairly simple layout, but the more you look the more your eyes are drawn into all the small details and diversity of textures

Thanks! And well said to you too, you've captured exactly what I meant!

[Ugly Genius]

Thanks, Karackle, fish, and jinx! Cool things for you to have said.

I really like mixed carpets. I think they look more natural than one consisting of a single type of lawn plant. This carpet has Glosso, HC, Mini Microsword, Hairgrass, Lawn Marshpennywort, and, in places, Mini Riccia.

[Francis Xavier]

I love top shots of carpets, I'm not sure why - maybe it's because in nature you never see side shots, always top shots. I'm totally with you on the mixed carpet UG, that's my next beast to tackle now that I've gotten single carpets down, although my farm tank may do that naturally before long.

[Ugly Genius]

Thanks, X! I'm thinking of starting a non-hardscaped nursery, too. High light and way too much CO2.

Last night I started taking bigger photos of Quasi-Wabi. Riven Impact's turn now.

[ZooTycoonMaster]

Originally Posted by Ugly Genius

I really like mixed carpets. I think they look more natural than one consisting of a single type of lawn plant. This carpet has Glosso, HC, Mini Microsword, Hairgrass, Lawn Marshpennywort, and, in places, Mini Riccia.

What's that very tiny plant? Is that the marshpennywort?

[Ugly Genius]

Hey, Zoo. On the right side middle? Yes, it is.
The smallest leafed one is HC. There's also Glosso, Mini Microsword, Bolbitis, and Riccia in that photo.

[ZooTycoonMaster]

Originally Posted by Ugly Genius

Hey, Zoo. On the right side middle? Yes, it is.
The smallest leafed one is HC. There's also Glosso, Mini Microsword, Bolbitis, and Riccia in that photo.

Oh...right. I didn't see HC in the names of carpet plants

I may end up getting another carpet plant to integrate into my Marselia. But hopefully the Staurogyne will creep along the gravel and look like Elatine Triandra

[pleco4me]

Hey U_G !

Your tank/s are looking great as always. I love the big rock in the centre - it adds heaps of character to your scape.

How do you find the Do!aqua music glass 10d?
Can you give me some rough dimensions of the unit? Im looking for a diffuser for a tank 15cm tall and 18cm wide.

Cheers
Craig

[Ugly Genius]

Hey, pleco.

It'll fit just fine in that tank. Quasi-Wabi's twenty centimeters cubed and it fits in there fine.

The diffuser's seven and half centimeters tall and at it's widest it's two and a quarter centimeters. The diffuser disk itself is about a centimeter and a half.

Here's a photo next to a tape measure (in inches):

Basically, what I'm saying, pleco, is it's small.

[pleco4me]

Great! Thanks heaps for that U_G

[Ugly Genius]

You're welcome, pleco.

Nothing new here. I'm still contemplating the next something to add to Riven Impact. A stem plant, but I'm not sure what.

In the meantime, photos:

You'll hear a lot of guys say that one should not get excited by pearling as it doesn't mean all that much.
While this is true, pearling is pretty and pretty things are always worth getting excited over.


I hadn't seen these Green Shrimp in weeks and assumed them dead.
They're not.
I just don't know where they could have hidden.
This is an iwagumi, fer crying out loud!

[ZooTycoonMaster]

Originally Posted by Ugly Genius

Basically, what I'm saying, pleco, is it's small.

That diffuser is freaking small. I saw it at AFA and the diameter of the ceramic part wasn't even as big as my thumb.

[Ugly Genius]

Yep, it's a very small diffuser, Zoo. It's great for a Mini-S and smaller, but anything bigger and you'd need the next size up. (Unless you were just low light.)

Riven Impact a bit over three months old. Feels longer than that, though.

Initial planting


Today

Hardscapes tend to "shrink" once the tank starts growing in. That's why I build slightly-larger-than-looks-right hardscapes at the beginning.

[CL]

Your tank looks great as always