Whatever you pick, you really need to complement the stunning moss growth. I look at that and realize that I suck at growing moss. Give me the most finicky stem plants anyday, but give me moss and I scratch my head.
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Humm cant really help there mate, Im pretty useless when it comes to giving plnat advice but the anubias under the logs sounds like a good idea.
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Time for a complete strip down, i ordered a pendent light from eBay and some ADA Amazonian soil, which i received to the back end of last week, and what a carry on.
My intention was to strip the juwel record and clean it, and paint the back ground black.
But as they say the best laid plans of men and mice lol, it didn't go to plan, i drained the water out of the tank and put in my spare tank which i intended on keeping then until I'd finished.
But half way through the cleaning process my wife noticed a leak, so i had to put the fish in a bucket.
First a sprinkled some carbon on the base or the tanks and some mulm out of my discus tank to speed up the bacteria colonization in the substrate, then i poured in the ADA soil, sloping it from front to back creating a bit of perspective.
Once that was done i had a little play with my hardscape, i had about 6 pieces of African hard wood which as been soaking in a bucket for about 3 weeks so it was well and truly water logged.
i finally settled on a comb of two pieces which looked good, they give me the branchey look i was after, no joy there, when i filled the tanks up with the old tank water, and the smaller piece of wood floated to the top arrrrrrrrr! was anything going to go right.
Carry on regardless, i went in to the kitchen to sort my water, to fill the other half of the tank up and i noticed a leak in the roof, but that's another story altogether.
Light = a 3 * 24watt pendent light from eBay 14,000k tubes, i know 72 watt is going to be to much (5.1wpg), i only plant using two tubes switching one off giving me 3.4wpg.
Co2 = co2 comes from the same bottle as my main tank via a co2 splitter which is connected to a solenoid on a timer, and diffused by a aqua mug glass diffuser at 1 bubble per 1.5 secs.
Equipment = ehiem's aquaball, 50watt heater
Substrate = 9ltr ADA Amazonian soil
Decoration = African hard wood
Plants = glosso, vallis, hygrophilia polysperma, riccia and Echinodorus angustifolius, I'm after some willow moss for the wood and possably a anblias, i have plans for a stem plant at the back right, maybe HM don't know yet.
This is my inspiration for this aquascape, but to be honest I'm at a bit of a loss on how to go about it.
The ADA substrate as nice as it is is causing problems, with the PH since adding it the PH has dropped from 6.4 off the test kit, the KH is none existent, I've have to add a heaped tea spoon of bicarb of soda to raise it to 6.4 to stop the PH from crashing.
The fish seam unaffected by it.
As it stands my only plans are to let the glosso grow and fill in the area to the left and to attach some willow moss to the bogwood, i do have another piece of bogwood to go to the front left of the piece that's in, the problem is its been socking for 3 weeks and it still bloody floats.
The bit I'm stuck with is the area at the back of the bogwood, i originally thought of some Eleocharis Parrulus, but now I'm wondering whether it would look a little flat.
My other though was for some sort of stem plant such as Hemianthus micranthemoides or something similar.
All comments, questions and advice welcome
Little ricca hills, they should look a little less lonely once the glosso grows and covers the base.
The gloss is starting to take off.
Simon
My intention was to strip the juwel record and clean it, and paint the back ground black.
But as they say the best laid plans of men and mice lol, it didn't go to plan, i drained the water out of the tank and put in my spare tank which i intended on keeping then until I'd finished.
But half way through the cleaning process my wife noticed a leak, so i had to put the fish in a bucket.
First a sprinkled some carbon on the base or the tanks and some mulm out of my discus tank to speed up the bacteria colonization in the substrate, then i poured in the ADA soil, sloping it from front to back creating a bit of perspective.
Once that was done i had a little play with my hardscape, i had about 6 pieces of African hard wood which as been soaking in a bucket for about 3 weeks so it was well and truly water logged.
i finally settled on a comb of two pieces which looked good, they give me the branchey look i was after, no joy there, when i filled the tanks up with the old tank water, and the smaller piece of wood floated to the top arrrrrrrrr! was anything going to go right.
Carry on regardless, i went in to the kitchen to sort my water, to fill the other half of the tank up and i noticed a leak in the roof, but that's another story altogether.
Light = a 3 * 24watt pendent light from eBay 14,000k tubes, i know 72 watt is going to be to much (5.1wpg), i only plant using two tubes switching one off giving me 3.4wpg.
Co2 = co2 comes from the same bottle as my main tank via a co2 splitter which is connected to a solenoid on a timer, and diffused by a aqua mug glass diffuser at 1 bubble per 1.5 secs.
Equipment = ehiem's aquaball, 50watt heater
Substrate = 9ltr ADA Amazonian soil
Decoration = African hard wood
Plants = glosso, vallis, hygrophilia polysperma, riccia and Echinodorus angustifolius, I'm after some willow moss for the wood and possably a anblias, i have plans for a stem plant at the back right, maybe HM don't know yet.
This is my inspiration for this aquascape, but to be honest I'm at a bit of a loss on how to go about it.
The ADA substrate as nice as it is is causing problems, with the PH since adding it the PH has dropped from 6.4 off the test kit, the KH is none existent, I've have to add a heaped tea spoon of bicarb of soda to raise it to 6.4 to stop the PH from crashing.
The fish seam unaffected by it.
As it stands my only plans are to let the glosso grow and fill in the area to the left and to attach some willow moss to the bogwood, i do have another piece of bogwood to go to the front left of the piece that's in, the problem is its been socking for 3 weeks and it still bloody floats.
The bit I'm stuck with is the area at the back of the bogwood, i originally thought of some Eleocharis Parrulus, but now I'm wondering whether it would look a little flat.
My other though was for some sort of stem plant such as Hemianthus micranthemoides or something similar.
All comments, questions and advice welcome
Little ricca hills, they should look a little less lonely once the glosso grows and covers the base.
The gloss is starting to take off.
Simon
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