Yep, another 12 gallon long thread. After seeing what everyone was doing with theirs and the cool shape of the tank I had to get one. I just got my other tank set up too, its been less than a month and Im already dropping down too much money on this new tank, oh well life is short.
Still trying to decide what I want to do with this tank, I haven't kept fish in a while, so I definitely am leaning towards minimal iwagumi with more swimming space and really short foreground plants.
Just got bored and set up a hardscape quickly just so I could snap some photo's. These are probably the stones Ill end up using but not the final hardscape layout, still working on that.
I added r. colorata behind the rocks and gave it a nice short trim, and rotala indica behind the right side rock, planted right on top of crypt parva, hope it doesnt mind.
knowing ug, im going to have to give it a haircut shortly, it likes to get really long and i need it to fill in a bit more before it decides to do the whole get really long thing.
Thank you! this is my first time doing such a long dsm, and my co2 isnt in til saturday, but i figure a few days wont hurt, im just doing daily water changes and excel overdosing at the moment.
Congrats on completing your DS. Your scape looks excellent. I wish you the best of luck during the transition, and look forward to seeing your red animals.
I get that question a lot, my LFS carries it ( fish gallery in houston), its about $55 for a 15 lb bag, so not cheap, although when I purchased my first 2 bags it was only $43, they raised the price up recently.
I also just tested my water today, the tank has cycled in 24 hours, 0 ammonia, 0 nitrite, 20-30ppm of nitrate. Pretty awesome I just need to figure out what kind of fish i want to get now!
Thanks! yeah, I read every page of the 12 gallon long club thread, but I had already decided a few pages in that I had to get one, seeing all the other journals really convinced me, im happy i got one, i want to get a second one!
I just got fauna!!
10 ember tetra's
10 neon green tetra's
The embers are awesome schoolers and are barely spooked at all, i can get right up in their face and they just chill, they are so awesome. They aslo look a lot better in person than pictures seem to do them justice on the internet.
Really got to say I am pleased with the ember tetra's, they are not too skitish, and the school really really well. The green neons are good schoolers too, sometimes they will both school as one big shoal, sometimes they will segregate, really like how this tank is coming together. I also got co2 hooked up now, keeping an eye on the drop checker so I dont gas my new tank inhabitants.
The e. hydropiper melted long ago, most of what you see is HC, there is a little hydropiper left, but i have another little patch growing emersed in a tub, I may move it to the tank soon now that I have co2 going and see how it does, it did not DSM at all though, but it may have been because all the hydropiper I bought was already submerged and it didnt like converting back to emersed.
Like almost everything else in the tank I got it from someone off TPT, the only rocks in houston I could find that looked ok were volcanic lace rock, I do want to hit up ADG for some unzan stone though, that looks nice to work with.
First trim of the left side, the UG was getting long, and the hydrocotyle sp japan was starting to try to take over the whole hill, i had to show it whos boss.
I had a little bit of melt, but that was more due to me having to use H2O2 to take out some BGA I had cultivated during my DSM. The UG in the area's that I treated with H2O2 died, other than that I got very little melt once I flooded. I got a little bit of diatoms that lasted a few days. After I flooded I waited a month and a half or so before I gave all the UG a haircut, and now its growing in nice and thick. It takes about a month to recover going either way, from emersed to submerged or vice versa. It will take a month before you notice any growth, meaning you will probably notice melt rather than growth, but after that initial month, whatever UG survives, it should start spreading quite quickly.
I'm really loving this tank. So simple but enthralling. Where do you get those stones? Are they seiryu? If so, did they alter your h2o parameters at all?
Ive decided to re-do this tank completely, After I moved into my new apartment most of my UG floated up, due to substrate moving during my move and I decided I want to start over with this tank anyway. I am selling off all the seiryu and HC and UG in this tank, and maybe the substrate too. I am going to set this up as a sulawesi cardinal tank, perhaps a planted sulawesi cardinal tank, my tap water is 8.0 out the tap, and ive always wanted cardinals so im gonna give it a go. I have my seiryu rock for sale on APC if anyone is interested.
Oh man, so sad that you are selling everything. They look so good. LOL
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