CL's ADA Mini-M- The Brightest Green- Replanted 11-18

[Outlawboss]

That RCS picture up there is fantastic! What a shot!

Also I just noticed you have the spray bar vertically. I've never seen it that way but a lightbulb just went off in my head when I saw your picture. How has it been working for you? Your video make it look like youre getting a great Co2 mist that way.

[CL]

Thanks everyone! I love those little shrimp.
The spray bar is vertical so I can get better flow down low by that big front rock. I'm using a piece of bamboo skewer as a diffuser, which puts out microscopic bubbles, and on top of that, I plugged the piece of skewer into the top hole on the spraybar, so it's kinda acting like a nano reactor, and the bubbles go along wherever the water flow does. It works great!

[husonfirst]

Originally Posted by CL

They've been inbreedinng since

Haha.

That's a sharp lookin' shrimp.

[wearsbunnyslippers]

awesome shrimp!

arent you worried about the babies getting sucked up your intake?

[CL]

No, I wasn't really, but I have moved the shrimp to another tank for breeding.

[CL]

Big red in her new home

[ZooTycoonMaster]

Post an FTS instead of all these shrimp shots

[CL]

Originally Posted by ZooTycoonMaster

Post an FTS instead of all these shrimp shots

haha. It doesn't look very different

[vtkid]

whoa! those are some really red shrimp where did you score those?

[CL]

Originally Posted by vtkid

whoa! those are some really red shrimp where did you score those?

From my lfs about 3 years ago

[vtkid]

no way i thought you probly got them from a private breeder or something. they are intense red. your scape is really cool too

[Francis Xavier]

Not bad CL, I have a critique though, which I find totally applicable since this is -essentially- an Iwagumi.

Ditch the HC, it's too small to compliment the anubias well. Instead use glosso, it'll look terrific with the Anubias you have in between the rocks as a full carpet, although the HC in the top right isn't badly placed and will probably look nice - but i'd almost say even put Glosso there too. Just trust me on this one.

[CL]

Originally Posted by Francis Xavier

Not bad CL, I have a critique though, which I find totally applicable since this is -essentially- an Iwagumi.

Ditch the HC, it's too small to compliment the anubias well. Instead use glosso, it'll look terrific with the Anubias you have in between the rocks as a full carpet, although the HC in the top right isn't badly placed and will probably look nice - but i'd almost say even put Glosso there too. Just trust me on this one.

Thanks, X. I was hoping you would see this. The hc is doing nothing, so I actually ditched it last night. I will be replacing most of the stems with hm tomorrow, leaving the colorata where it is, but shifting the whole tank toward low tech, so I can use the CO2 on the 91L. I imagined that glosso would look too much like the petite leaves, but I guess I could try some mm since glosso is out of the picture with low tech.
Thanks for the tips

[Francis Xavier]

That's actually what you're kind of shooting for here - similar enough leaves that it flows really well together with the round characteristics of the rock. Sharp contrasts usually don't work too well unless expertly crafted and maintained in Iwagumi's, and even then there is a transition point plant, etc that makes the motion from A to C fluid.

[CL]

Originally Posted by Francis Xavier

That's actually what you're kind of shooting for here - similar enough leaves that it flows really well together with the round characteristics of the rock. Sharp contrasts usually don't work too well unless expertly crafted and maintained in Iwagumi's, and even then there is a transition point plant, etc that makes the motion from A to C fluid.

Ah! I see. Thanks for explaining that to me, it makes perfect sense.