SuperColey1
Planted Section
Just a few backdated entries to introduce this scape:
19th April 2013
Technical Specs:
30 litre Opti-white aquarium (L 40cm, H 30cm, D 30cm)
Eheim 2211 external cannister filter
Beamworks 9 x 1W Luminaire (8 hours per day)
Fertilisation 0.5ml Lush Max daily
Plants: Fissidens Fontanus, Ammania Bonsoi, Monosolenium Tenerum,Vesicularia ferriei, Taxiphyllum Sp (flame moss.)
Livestock: Neocaridina Heteropoda var Yellow.
Substrate: Akadama and inert pool filter silica sand
Hardscape - Slate Phyllite broken into small stones and shards.
This time after several failures trying to do simple scapes that didn't hide any negelct I decided to just make something that was very structural and use very slow growing plants on it. I guess it is supposed to look like a river with trees on the banks but that was more just a bit of fun. The scape's name wasn't really a description of something I was trying to achieve but purely that the rock reminds me of Snowdonia.
The main plant is Fissidens Fontanus that is laid inbetween all the rocks. There is some Pellia along the 'riverbank' and Ammania Bonsoi represents the trees.
The weeping and flame moss is purely some stray contaminants that appeared.
This tank will have 4 weeks emersed before water is added to let the Fissidens get a strangelehold over the substrate.
First I cleaned the tank out thoroughly, then smashed up some of the large Slate rocks I had in the Portinho scape. I built the scape in layers, adding rocks to get the slopes for the riverbanks then filling in another layer until I had readched where I wanted the top to be. At this time I was only using a small 3W clip on light while I waited for the beamworks luminaire to arrive.
04th June 2013
After waiting 6 weeks for the luminaire the Ammania Bonsoi was added. This will be flooded in 1 weeks time.
Unfortunately this extended has meant the Fissidens has gotten a bit gunked up and will probably have to be binned. Pity because I used a massive amount of it. I do have more though. Because it will be flooded and I don't want it all blowing about the tank I have chopped loads up and mixed it with some more Akadama.
That is in a single thin layer at the bottom of a tray. I am leaving it for 4 weeks so that these fine particles attach, then I can just sprinkle the grains of akadama onto the banks. I will probably repeat this process a few times until the attached Fissidens fills out a bit.
15th June 2013
The tank is now flooded and I can now sit back and relax. Water changes will be 10% weekly but I don't expect too much maintenance here apart from little shrimps loving to cover sand with Akadama.
I am leaving the 'river' covered though and every now and again when a bit of Fissidens starts showing up on these stray bits I pick the grain up and put it back onto the banks.
After the banks fill out I will simply suck all the akadama from the river part up with an airline and then add new sand.
My daughter is fascinated with this tank..............Ooh you can see one of the gloss white units I have discarded as well.
19th April 2013
Technical Specs:
30 litre Opti-white aquarium (L 40cm, H 30cm, D 30cm)
Eheim 2211 external cannister filter
Beamworks 9 x 1W Luminaire (8 hours per day)
Fertilisation 0.5ml Lush Max daily
Plants: Fissidens Fontanus, Ammania Bonsoi, Monosolenium Tenerum,Vesicularia ferriei, Taxiphyllum Sp (flame moss.)
Livestock: Neocaridina Heteropoda var Yellow.
Substrate: Akadama and inert pool filter silica sand
Hardscape - Slate Phyllite broken into small stones and shards.
This time after several failures trying to do simple scapes that didn't hide any negelct I decided to just make something that was very structural and use very slow growing plants on it. I guess it is supposed to look like a river with trees on the banks but that was more just a bit of fun. The scape's name wasn't really a description of something I was trying to achieve but purely that the rock reminds me of Snowdonia.
The main plant is Fissidens Fontanus that is laid inbetween all the rocks. There is some Pellia along the 'riverbank' and Ammania Bonsoi represents the trees.
The weeping and flame moss is purely some stray contaminants that appeared.
This tank will have 4 weeks emersed before water is added to let the Fissidens get a strangelehold over the substrate.
First I cleaned the tank out thoroughly, then smashed up some of the large Slate rocks I had in the Portinho scape. I built the scape in layers, adding rocks to get the slopes for the riverbanks then filling in another layer until I had readched where I wanted the top to be. At this time I was only using a small 3W clip on light while I waited for the beamworks luminaire to arrive.
04th June 2013
After waiting 6 weeks for the luminaire the Ammania Bonsoi was added. This will be flooded in 1 weeks time.
Unfortunately this extended has meant the Fissidens has gotten a bit gunked up and will probably have to be binned. Pity because I used a massive amount of it. I do have more though. Because it will be flooded and I don't want it all blowing about the tank I have chopped loads up and mixed it with some more Akadama.
That is in a single thin layer at the bottom of a tray. I am leaving it for 4 weeks so that these fine particles attach, then I can just sprinkle the grains of akadama onto the banks. I will probably repeat this process a few times until the attached Fissidens fills out a bit.
15th June 2013
The tank is now flooded and I can now sit back and relax. Water changes will be 10% weekly but I don't expect too much maintenance here apart from little shrimps loving to cover sand with Akadama.
I am leaving the 'river' covered though and every now and again when a bit of Fissidens starts showing up on these stray bits I pick the grain up and put it back onto the banks.
After the banks fill out I will simply suck all the akadama from the river part up with an airline and then add new sand.
My daughter is fascinated with this tank..............Ooh you can see one of the gloss white units I have discarded as well.
