ADA Mini-L: Elements

[Axelrodi202]

Or an arowana!

[ddtran46]

Originally Posted by Axelrodi202

Or an arowana!

Haha. I was thinking the same thing yesterday

[cintamas]

random thought....

I think a pair of some wild chocolate gouramis would look lovely in this tank. They would look quite fitting in the shadows.

[Ugly Genius]

Remind me never to put a tank in a room with lots of ambient light.
Because glare sucks.
So often I want to show you guys something in Elements but I can't because all you'd see is a silhouetted reflection of yours truly holding a camera. I've got a ton of windows and great views, but in the planted tank way of looking at things, windows suck.

Were this tank not in the living room, I'd be able to show you how much Elements has filled in. I've come to the conclusion that the fast growth I'm seeing in Elements is not due to a larger tank size as I hypothesized earlier, but Aqua Soil. I believe that Aqua Soil is better than Aqua Soil Powder. The powder-type, while very good, is not as nutrient-rich as the normal type; that's what I'm thinking, anyway.

On an unrelated note, I don't know why, but every time I dose K, a few shrimp die. I'm careful to dose slowly and all that, but still, without fail, a few hours after I dose, one to three shrimp will die. It could be coincidental, but it's made me more than a little scared to dose anything in here. Yesterday I lost three a six hours after dosing.
Weird.

[Ugly Genius]

One more thing. Just now I was letting Franny and Zooey out to play. As they're in the backyard doing their business, I peer into a planter that sits in front of my house. I toss old Aqua Soil and scraps after a rescape into this thing. It's filled with water and some sort of bamboo-looking plant.
Anyway:
I notice that there are Cherry Shrimp in there. I don't recall putting any shrimp in there, but they could have hitched a ride during a Aqua Soil toss. I also see Riccia, pearling. And Glosso growing emersed and submersed. Various mosses doing various things. And plants that resemble plants I poured into there, but more wild-looking and vital. Some of the stuff is growing better than in my balanced light-to-CO2 tanks.
I just don't know how the shrimp are surviving in there. The water I pour into it is straight from the hose and the temps drop pretty low from time to time.
It's pretty cool to see something like that. Nature doing what it does: finding a way to keep on keeping on.

[Outlawboss]

Picture?! I'd love to see a visual of this planter because it sounds rad. I think sometimes we forget that all these things we grow and feed came from nature at some point, so it's cool to hear that they keep on kickin when you put them back into nature - in a manner of speaking.

[mgdmirage]

awesome tank,, i think some sort of pike lurking in the shadows would be sick. Or maybe a leaf fish.

[Francis Xavier]

That sounds like a really cool planter.

[Ugly Genius]

Ugly's wicked tank.

Here's it's with a 400 ISO so as to see more of the details. (I usually use an ISO of 100 for the truest color representation, but here a higher one was necessary as the sun's still up and this tank is a beotch to shoot with all the reflections and whatnot.)

I've pretty much ignored this tank. I don't even look at it all that much. It wasn't until I looked at the photos that you're now seeing that I realized that it really needs a trim. Maybe tomorrow.

[fastfreddie]

That DW looks like it's guarding something, and if anyone came through the forest and tried to pass, it would wrap his legs in vines and eat him.

Wicked is the only word for Elements. I feel like sweet or awesome would just be an insult.

[legomaniac89]

Man, that is sick! It's grown up so well, even better than I thought it would

[Francis Xavier]

Looks like there's some clado there in the jdhg that needs eradicating! For some reason I get the feeling that a teeny bit of red somewhere in there would be badass.

[jargonchipmunk]

Originally Posted by Ugly Genius

Thanks, Craig.
I've got another jar with AS and Flame Moss that I keep on a window sill.

Thinking of adding an Oscar once the cycle's completed.

oscar the grouch? I think he'd be right at home in there!

[malaybiswas]

Tank looks wicked cool The BBA just fits the theme as long as you can check further over growth.

How are the mosses doing, the rare ones.

[speedie408]

Very cool looking tank UG. For some reason it reminds me of that old movie, "Swamp Thing".