[Chizpa305]

Update: 06/21/2015

Ok. Here is an update with the tank now maturing nicely. Plants are growing in thick and healthy. The HC carpet still needs a little more growth to cover the entire foreground, but it's almost there. The "hanging gardens" idea on top of the rock ornament have turned out well, and now I would want to add more of that Fissidens on other horizontal surfaces of that ornament.

Let me know what are your opinions/suggestion.

Thanks for watching.

 

[Chizpa305]

It's been a while since my last update. I upgraded the light to a Finnex LED fixture Which is great. Plants like it a lot. I've got a nice carpet of Utricularia graminifolia mixed with some Staurogyne repens, but there is still some work to be done on the background plants.

Here is a top view showing the Finnex fixture, 10 inches long, with some blue LEDs in the center and White LEDs on the laterals

Lateral view

 

[Tnalp]

Gorgeous!!! Lushhhhhhh


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[The Dude1]

That looks amazing... how long is your photo period? How often are you recharging the CO2? That really looks amazing.

 

[Chizpa305]

That looks amazing... how long is your photo period? How often are you recharging the CO2? That really looks amazing.

Hi, thanks. 12 hr. photo period. No Co2 at the moment. I realized that without the Co2 the plants still look very healthy, they just grow a bit slower which is a good thing because that means less maintenance for me. Algae is not very disturbing, just having some type of black algae. It doesn't grow on the leaves, just the rock ornament in the center (which looks completely black in these pics). But to be honest, it's not unpleasant, it kind of gives it a cool, mysterious vibe to the rock. Anyways, if someone knows how to remove it let me know.

 

[Chizpa305]

End of Journal



I recently dismantled this aquascape, and I felt like I didn't end this long thread with a proper goodbye. After all, this was my first planted tank scape and it served me as a great source of knowledge in the hobby. So, here is one last picture. You can follow my new thread here: http://www.plantedtank.net/forums/12-tank-journals/1188961-5-gallons-vertical-iwagumi-dutch-mixture.html