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Hey just did a rescape on my 50 gal bow front and thought I'd share the experience and thoughts. Also open to criticism for next time.
I started this tank about a year ago, I had kept fish before but never had gotten into aquascaping or live plants. So after a year I decided I needed to rescape. Problem was the tank was fully stocked. I decided to drain the tank and try anyways, I'm a little afraid I'm ganna go through the cycling process again. I saved about 20% of the old water and 50% of the old substrate. Also I have an established sunsun canister filter running. Im now dosing with stability, prime, and excel. The project took about 6 hours. It was really hard work but a lot of fun. Paid my brother to be my assistant during the process lol. Went with mostly easy plants to grow, including ferns, anubias, dwarf sag, red tiger lotus, and a few others. Well anyways here are the before/after, and process pics...
I started this tank about a year ago, I had kept fish before but never had gotten into aquascaping or live plants. So after a year I decided I needed to rescape. Problem was the tank was fully stocked. I decided to drain the tank and try anyways, I'm a little afraid I'm ganna go through the cycling process again. I saved about 20% of the old water and 50% of the old substrate. Also I have an established sunsun canister filter running. Im now dosing with stability, prime, and excel. The project took about 6 hours. It was really hard work but a lot of fun. Paid my brother to be my assistant during the process lol. Went with mostly easy plants to grow, including ferns, anubias, dwarf sag, red tiger lotus, and a few others. Well anyways here are the before/after, and process pics...
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