[HBdirtbag]

Decided to tear down my 45p and give it a different feel. Will be mainly a buce tank.

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[Jamo33]

Any updates mate?
Interested to see how this goes!

 

[HBdirtbag]

Yea it's flooded. Not really happy with the layout. Have some mini bonsai driftwood on the way. Also some more buces coming.

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[HBdirtbag]

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[Yukiharu]

Cool. What rocks are you using?

 

[HBdirtbag]

Cool. What rocks are you using?

No clue what they are, had them laying around the house. There's two different kind in there picked them up at separate dosh stores over the last year.

 

[HBdirtbag]

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[Denison]

Those trees look amazing. They are going to be the envy of all once they grow in.

 

[HBdirtbag]

Added some livestock, have 4 amano's, a couple rcs, 2 nerites, and a pair of Killifish (who like to jump, may need to put some glass on this tank)

 

[EVANATOOR77]

I love australe killis. Good choice. Definitely need a top though.

 

[bereninga]

Man, it'll feel like an eternity for those buces to fill up. The substrate mix make it a bit hard to see all the details right now. But after the plants fill in, I'm sure it'll be well worth the wait!

 

[HBdirtbag]

Man, it'll feel like an eternity for those buces to fill up. The substrate mix make it a bit hard to see all the details right now. But after the plants fill in, I'm sure it'll be well worth the wait!

yea, i'm kind of regretting the mix, and yes it's going to take forever to fill in!!! That's going to be a true patience test for me!

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Man, it'll feel like an eternity for those buces to fill up. The substrate mix make it a bit hard to see all the details right now. But after the plants fill in, I'm sure it'll be well worth the wait!

I love australe killis. Good choice. Definitely need a top though.

yea, i'm not sure i'm willing to do it....I may move them into the big tank and see how they do in that.

These where a whim buy. Poor girl, has just been laying on the floor for two days. She'll move....but not much.

 

[HBdirtbag]

Some more shots

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[WaterLife]

Cool Buce trees! But the color (mainly the orange) of the mixed substrate is really distracting/"noisey" in my opinion.

 

[HBdirtbag]

ya, i agree, no real solution. As you can see as i've been messing around with it its becoming less and less. May dump some more amazonia on top of it.

 

[WaterLife]

Just grow a nice green carpet and I'm sure it will look 100 times better.
Remember not to bury the Buce's rhizomes, just like you wouldn't with Anubias or Java Fern. Burying the roots to anchor it, is fine.

Is that Blood Vomit? Pretty sure that will die without high light, ferts and co2.
The big black rock on the left looks too unnatural. The color of it can be worked with or as algae and biofilm builds up on it, it will blend in better, but just the angling of it, just makes it look too unnatural. Just my opinion though, and I am by no means a skilled aquascaper, not even close haha.

 

[HBdirtbag]

I've been growing buces fine in substrate (seems anyone who tries does as well).

And yes that's blood vomit (this is a high light, co2'd, and ferted tank)

I plan on having my buces eventually being the carpet

May do some dwarf mc but probably not


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[HBdirtbag]

The more I grow Buces, the more I really dig them. Such a unique plant, and the colors are awesome. Blues and reds are coming through. Just wish it grew much faster



Still got a lot of learning to do on how to grow it. This [censored][censored][censored][censored] gets crazy gsa in my big tank.

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[second]

Love those buce

 

[HBdirtbag]

Got a really bad algae outbreak on the slow growers and completely changed this tank around. Here's it now. Also the planted+ was just too much light and I installed a dimmer.

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