Bigpig Planted Juwel Vision 180l

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Bigpig

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Well this is my second tank I have not posted much about but its slowly coming along. Money been really tight Iv not been able to buy the plants. I want in bulk so Iv made do with just 1 which i have spilt and cultivated from so progress is slow but I like how it's coming along

Equipment
Juwel Vision 180L
Standard tank lighting think it's two t5
Filter Tetra Tech 700EX
Jager Heater

Substrate
Natural colour gravel ( I really like this now seems kinda retro to me :D)
Red Sea Flora Base mixed in with the gravel

Plants
1 Tropica Cryptocoryne Wendtii "tropica"
echinodorus uruguayensis now I only have a very small bit which am trying to grow you can spot it near the intake
Vallisneria
Java Fern which I have placed on bogwood trying to get it to grow
Moss Ball
Javamoss

Fish stocking atm
L59 ancistrus,
10 Golden Harlequin Going to increase 20
4 Corydoras spp going to up the numbers also
1 Opaline Gourami only temp had two in my main tank but they where fighting going to re-home
3 platy which am going to re-home soon

So it just be my plec Harlequins and Carydoras and maybe a set of dwarf cichlids


This is it bare with the wood
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How it is now :D
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Tropica Cryptocoryne Wendtii "tropica" Now I had only 1 plant and it was toddy but I now have it growing and spreading like wildfire :D
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Corydoras spp
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My Brislenose
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Looks awesome.

The vallis make it all so much brighter, the wood is an excellent shape (what kind? where from?) and I like the bunched together crypts in front of the wood.

Are you going for a kind of dense on the left look?

If you look at the tubes they should say what wattage they are.
 

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