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Nick's ADA 120-P Journal "THE SEQUEL" - Updated 4/29/14 **NEW SCAPE**

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7/17/13 - Foreground has come back full force since the many months of neglect. Since the last update, I managed to get the tank back on weekly NPK and killed off all the spyro algae and now everything is nice and green once again.

I've got plans to redo this tank with a brand new scape, but we'll just have to see how much time I have.








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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" :eek5: 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!
 
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+1 on the CFS 500!

I've used one on my small container pond for a couple months and have nothing but good things to say.

It'll definitely leak if not sealed up properly. But so will my $300 Eheim.

For $50-$60? Let's just say it's one of the few aquaria-related impulse buys my other half has let me get away with without much feigned outrage.
 
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Thanks guys!





These were bred by Neil Oyama. 75% Rio ***** Altum hybrids.

Awesome tank, Nick. Really jealous of all of you in California sometimes, what with all your fantastic LFS and such. We have Florida Aquatic Nursery over here but given the stock in local stores you'd think Florida was barren.

Anyway, subscribed!
You got GLA over there as well. Plus you guys have your backyards that you can collect wild specimens from... just watch out for them gators! haha :help:

...but then they spam your driftwood and rocks with thousands of insoluble white eggs.
This is why I left out nerites on my list lol.

Really nicely done scape. I'm sorry if this has been covered but I'm curious to know how high above your tank your Tek is hung? Also, do you run all the bulbs (4?) the entire photo period? Have you checked the par at the height you have it? Sorry for all the questions, but I'd like to know because I have the same fixture and size tank and just want to get an idea what someone with a similar setup is doing.
Thanks,
John
My lights are suspended aprox 14" above the tank. Currently I'm running a 8hr photoperiod with a 4hr noon burst (all 4 bulbs), to speed up plant growth and soak up the excess nutrients. These are the par reading results that were taken a while back with my old scape:


 
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Really nicely done scape. I'm sorry if this has been covered but I'm curious to know how high above your tank your Tek is hung? Also, do you run all the bulbs (4?) the entire photo period? Have you checked the par at the height you have it? Sorry for all the questions, but I'd like to know because I have the same fixture and size tank and just want to get an idea what someone with a similar setup is doing.
Thanks,
John
 
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I was lucky enough to nab some of this brand new to the US hobby foreground plant, from youjettisonme. It's called Elantine Hydropiper aka "mini glosso". Here it is planted in with the MQ. It came with some nice long healthy roots, making it super easy to plant.



There's a tiny bit of white fuzz developing on one of the wood pieces, for some ungodly reason but I'm not too worried. I dropped in some Amanos to start working on cleanup. They're already hard at work and yes, I tested for ammonia and nitrates before I plopped em in. I've already done two, 50% WC since it was filled. So far so good. Oh yeah, the mini xmas moss is already turning green again. :biggrin:
 
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Thank you for the kind words my friend. Very much appreciated and I hope you enjoyed the long journal. Good luck with your tank... I'll look for it.

The tank looks Sick Mang!!! I hope those Macs are safe.

It's not just the tank everyone. You need the photography skills to pull something like this off, don't be fooled. You got to pick up two or three skills to be at Nick's level. I'm not even going to try...
The macs are staying in the 40B holding tank permanently. I'm only putting the Angels and chain loaches back in. Keep it simple. I may add a school of Asian Rummies if I can find some nice ones.

Thanks Jimmy, I'm humbled bro. I'm just a normal human, not the robot you project me to be lol.

Very nice tank! I really like the hardscape. That's something my tanks always lack. Mainly cause I'm too much of a cheapskate to spend money on rocks lol. Local rocks are sandstone and boring looking.
Locally collected rocks are nice but these stones are different. I didn't even try scaping. They just kinda scaped themselves because they look so good lol j/k. Def worth buying if you have access to them. Thank you!
 
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