Nick's ADA 120-P Journal "THE SEQUEL" - Updated 5/13/13 **new VID**

[speedie408]

5/13/13 - iPhone VID - This is as low maintenance as it's gonna get. I dose NPK and micros about once a week if I remember and do 50% water change once a month, if any.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkhIN9CBags

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Old tank, new scape. This time around I was able to get my hands on some excellent seiryu stones to go along with it. The wood used is the same wood from my old scape. All I did was cut the branches into individual pieces which enabled me to stick em where they looked best for me. I then stacked the rocks on top/in between to help hold them in place. I think it worked out fairly well for this scape.

I spent about 5 hours on Saturday morning from catching all the fish to scooping out every little bit of substrate out. I was beat! Sunday I spent 4 hrs setting up the new hardscape, planting/tying moss, and filling up the tank. Here are some of the pics from this weekend:

1. After a long morning of "project teardown River Wild" Scrubbed down, corner to corner.


2. The day after. Soil is in and sloped appropriately.


3. Hardscape is IN! w00t w00t!


4. Plants are planted and moss tied.


5. Fill'R up! Look at that silt! Not to worry tho, my filter took care of it real quick .


6. Couple hours after fill up. Now we wait for her to fill in.


I will update this post with a plant and equipment list soon. I used a lot of my old plants along with a few new ones. Nothing special.

Thanks for looking!

[plantbrain]

What type of moss?

Mini pellia or Fissidens?

I have some extra E triandra if you want to try that as foreground weed.

[speedie408]

Originally Posted by plantbrain

What type of moss?

Mini pellia or Fissidens?

I have some extra E triandra if you want to try that as foreground weed.

Mini X-mas moss. I got tired of fissidens from my last scape haha.

I tried e. triandra in this tank a few months back and it never grew for me... kinda weird since most folks say its a weed. I'm assuming it's a soft water plant?

Thanks for the offer Tom, but I'll pass since it hates my tank.

[jkan0228]

This is gonna be epic.

Can't wait Nick! Is this still an EI tank?

[speedie408]

Originally Posted by jkan0228

This is gonna be epic.

Can't wait Nick! Is this still an EI tank?

Nothing close to epic bro, but yeah it's gonna remain EI

[thefisherman]

you're tank looks outstanding from the start bro! i am absolutely excited for you, i can't wait


- thefisherman

[sunyang730]

I see a lot of tanks behind this nice tank

[audioaficionado]

Subscribed. If I wasn't at work last night I'd been 2nd poster

I zoomed in on that last FTS w/water and there is a lot of intricate detail with the rocks and wood that will look awesome if you don't let it jungle up too much. Those plants you have will look great PDQ as they fill in with EI, CO2 & your lights.

[shrimpnmoss]

The rocks and wood looks hot Nick. That looks like a lot of work!

[speedie408]

Originally Posted by thefisherman

you're tank looks outstanding from the start bro! i am absolutely excited for you, i can't wait


- thefisherman

Thank you Ryan .

Originally Posted by sunyang730

I see a lot of tanks behind this nice tank

That's the Shrimp Room .

Originally Posted by audioaficionado

Subscribed. If I wasn't at work last night I'd been 2nd poster

I zoomed in on that last FTS w/water and there is a lot of intricate detail with the rocks and wood that will look awesome if you don't let it jungle up too much. Those plants you have will look great PDQ as they fill in with EI, CO2 & your lights.

Don't worry bro... I won't let it get too jungly haha. However, I can't promise that the plants will stay the same as the it progresses. For some reason I always tend to change it up a bit as the tank begins to mature. We shall see what happens since I don't really have any cut n dry goals for it.

Originally Posted by shrimpnmoss

The rocks and wood looks hot Nick. That looks like a lot of work!

Thanks Howard. The rocks are Hot to begin with so it didn't take much to stack em in 2 separate piles inside a glass box to make em pop hehe. The planting and moss tying was the most strenuous part.

[youjettisonme]

I love this hardscape Nick. ...and I know how torturous tying mini Xmas moss to branches can be because that's what I have in a 90p right now.

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[zergling]

Very nice Nick!

Your rescape is way ahead of mine....I'm still waiting on my replacement stand, and I still need to get aqua soil LOL!

[Bahugo]

Subscribed! Love the scape bro.

[ChadRamsey]

like the last scape, this one is sweet.

cant wait to see it fill in

[Wwh2694]

Very nice. Like the scape. Is that moss color like that?