Jamepsss
Fish Addict
I suppose it's time I got round to doing my own journal since I've enjoyed and appreciated countless others on here.
Bought this tank in January 2010 and for the first 8 or 9 months the tank looked pretty terrible. For this first post I'll add some pictures from the 'early days' so you can see what I mean. I'll go in to more detail about my set-up on a later post.
January 2010
The night I set it up.
February 2010
A month later it looked like this
March 2010
Things were growing.
April 2010
Vallis all bunched together
May 2010
I bought a large Bristlenose Plec which wreaked havoc in my tank.
May 2010
Once the plec was rehomed I decided on a simple new layout using Vallis and Amazon Swords only.
June 2010
A month later and everything was growing as planned. By the end of July the Vallis and Swords were ridiculously big but you'll have to trust me on that as I don't have a pic.
August 2010
Got fed up with Vallis and the layout in general and had a big plant clearout/trim and threw some new pieces of wood in there. Looked awful I know.
September 2010
Redmoor wood looking bright green, even the Egeria Densa was dying slowly. This phase was more about experimenting with a few different plants to see what worked and what didn't in preparation for a new layout which I started in October.
That's it for now, thanks for reading.
Bought this tank in January 2010 and for the first 8 or 9 months the tank looked pretty terrible. For this first post I'll add some pictures from the 'early days' so you can see what I mean. I'll go in to more detail about my set-up on a later post.
January 2010
The night I set it up.
February 2010
A month later it looked like this
March 2010
Things were growing.
April 2010
Vallis all bunched together
May 2010
I bought a large Bristlenose Plec which wreaked havoc in my tank.
May 2010
Once the plec was rehomed I decided on a simple new layout using Vallis and Amazon Swords only.
June 2010
A month later and everything was growing as planned. By the end of July the Vallis and Swords were ridiculously big but you'll have to trust me on that as I don't have a pic.
August 2010
Got fed up with Vallis and the layout in general and had a big plant clearout/trim and threw some new pieces of wood in there. Looked awful I know.
September 2010
Redmoor wood looking bright green, even the Egeria Densa was dying slowly. This phase was more about experimenting with a few different plants to see what worked and what didn't in preparation for a new layout which I started in October.
That's it for now, thanks for reading.