Okay, here goes. I couldn't stand not having water in this puppy, so I cleaned it out, went and got some wood from my yard, and have done a rough- scape. I made a stand out of some cinder blocks (I guess technically concrete blocks?) that I already had and put a board on top of them. So far, I actually like the color, nice grey with the bleached looking unfinished wood. Not bad for less than $5 (assuming that I didn't have the stuff sitting around already). I just wish it had some storage :icon_roll.The light is a hampton bay light (26 or 27 watts) There will be pressurized co2 with an inline reactor. The substrate will be ADA Aquasoil. I will have some UG, anubias petite, blyxa japonica, rotala nanjenshan, ammania sp. bonsai, and ludwigia arcuata with the possibility of some limnophila aromatica and hm. An Eheim 2213 will provide filtration. I'm going to keep some otos and boraroras and maybe some snowball shrimp. Here is the tank as of now (I will probably change it before I'm done planting, and I am going to make the wood more appealing [no cuts that are straight across])
This hobby's more fun when you're away for a while. I haven't looked at any journals for the past few weeks and I come back to this one and -- wow! -- I love how it's grown in!
Brilliantly done, cl! I love your style. Seriously, you've got an impeccable eye.
Thanks guys
It seems like the growth has exploded (considering these are slow growers) since I put that hydor flo in there and the whole tank gets direct water flow. The shrimp like to ride it too
It's the outflow from my filter. It's called a Hydor Flo. I originally got it for my reef, but it didn't need it, so I put it on this tank. It turns so that the outflow "sweeps" around the tank. It seems like after I added it, all of the plants (including the petite) started growing better and faster.
Thanks, marimo. I really like the way the mp is filling in. It just takes a long time.
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