[Nolan]

When I read about these and realized I had all materials around my house I just had to put one together.

Update: 10/20/2014
I removed the crypt to allow more light down to the grass. The crypt had found the water surface and was putting out really long leaves that stretched all across the surface.

Update: 5/27/2014
The DHG is really starting to spread now.

Update: 4/29/14
Added DHG and Crypt, took out ludwigia yesterday

Update:12/31/13 Re-Scaped

Update:4/27/13

Update:3/8/13

Initial setup: 02/02/13

Tank: 1g bowl

Lighting: [STRIKE]11 watt GE CFL indoor floodlight 6700k[/STRIKE] [STRIKE]Westward facing window[/STRIKE] stock LED lighting off of my 37g

Mechanical: none

Heater: none

Substrate: Miracle Grow organic grower's choice, gravel, super naturals tahitian moon sand

Flora: Red Tiger Lotus, [STRIKE]Dwarg Sag, Ludwigia Repens, Duckweed, Wisteria[/STRIKE] Dwarf Hairgrass

Fauna: pond snails, Cherry Shrimp, 1 cory fry (moved)

This bowl has become very low maintenance. For the first month I had to skim the surface almost everyday to remove bio-film. Now I do a small water change every other week or so.

 

[Nolan]

Cory fry

There must have been a cory egg on the ludwigia stem I transplanted from my other tank...

looks like around 10days old.

Can I take this to mean my water quality is good?

 

[Lia]

Came out great, what type of water changes are you doing ?


"Miracle Grow organic grower's choice" seems to be what most in here use but I thought it had cow manure ?

 

[pweifan]

Did the Cory make it?

 

[Nolan]

Ive been doing about a 20% water change every 10 days or so. Basically whenever I start to get biofilm on the surface

 

[Nolan]

Did the Cory make it?

Yes. I moved it to the 37g and its doing great. Took me about 10min to catch the little booger though!

 

[Nolan]

Moved to the kitchen table. Makes a great centerpiece IMO.

 

[Nolan]

"Miracle Grow organic grower's choice" seems to be what most in here use but I thought it had cow manure ?

Not sure bout the manure. I did not check ingredients. I just went with because it seemed to work well for others. So far so good for me too *fingers crossed.

 

[Nolan]

Here is the cory that hatched in the bowl. Its much more colorful than its parents, although daddy fish is albino...:icon_smil

 

[javajive1981]

Cool. Your bowl is lovely

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[GMYukonon24s]

Nice bowl!

 

[octanejunkie]

Great looking bowl, looks great on your kitchen table

How's it doing?

 

[Nolan]

Great looking bowl, looks great on your kitchen table

How's it doing?

So it did really well for the first few months with just the light from the window.

By november everything had stopped growing but the duckweed. It was getting like 2 hours of strong light and then barely any for the rest of the day

I just rescaped it a couple days ago and have it on a nightstand in my bedroom with the led panel that came with my 37g marineland set sitting on top.

New pic coming soon

 

[Nolan]

relocated and re-scaped

 

[usgetata]

Liking it! Keep us updated!
You made me want to create one myself with the trimming leftover :-D

 

[cbachmann]

Its a real beaut sir. I tip my hat to you!

 

[pweifan]

Looks great! You should be proud of the baby cory

 

[aquariumhobbyist]

Just found this post while surfing the web for techniques on how to properly set up a Walstad Tank (or bowl as in your case), particularly with respect to the soil and substrate to be used. I intend to set up a similar bowl for a friend that I hope to inspire into the aquarium hobby by presenting a wonderfully set up bowl live with plants and all.

I intend to keep either a betta fish or a couple of shrimp in the bowl. I was wondering if you had any recommendations based on your experience.

Also, one last thing; what happened to your lotus (I assume that's what it is, or type of another water lily) in your rescape?

 

[Briz]

I would recommend shrimp. A betta calls for warmer water than shrimp, so you could stay heater-less guilt free. Also they won't swish around the water like a betta might (uprooting plants) and they will do something about algae. You could do more than a couple too! I've heard recommended about 10 per gallon, so you could probably do at least 5 easily.

 

[Nolan]

Just found this post while surfing the web for techniques on how to properly set up a Walstad Tank (or bowl as in your case), particularly with respect to the soil and substrate to be used. I intend to set up a similar bowl for a friend that I hope to inspire into the aquarium hobby by presenting a wonderfully set up bowl live with plants and all.

I intend to keep either a betta fish or a couple of shrimp in the bowl. I was wondering if you had any recommendations based on your experience.

Also, one last thing; what happened to your lotus (I assume that's what it is, or type of another water lily) in your rescape?

sorry for the late reply, but Briz is spot on with the advice

also the lotus is still there I just trimmed it way down, its getting big again now

Another reason I like shrimp over fish is that I dont ever have to feed them, no added food = very little poop = low maintenance

I add food only when my plants look like they need it.