Cheers Nick
I sent you a mail.
A lot of the ferns seemed to be dying off so I removed a load, I actually added a load more but GRRR I'm not happy with the aquascape now. The photo does not do it justice it actually looks a lot better, I will post some more pictures, but I am missing the tenellus foreground. I will never be happy with this tank, it's just not as good as it should be!
Putting the sand in place was an absolute nightmare. You'd influenced me George and with Jimboo's sand foreground I thought sod it lets do it. I started on the Saturday night, 23rd of April and began draining the tank. I removed a lot of the old plants and stored them, and removed the bogwood, being careful to avoid air bourne shrimp. I then set about catching the fish and moving them to my 125, along with the shrimp. This went ok until I had to capture some khuli loach I had stupidly put in, I simply could not catch them, but I knew I would have to remove all the fish for it to work. So I kept draining down and draining down. After pulling out more plants to get the fish I had disturbed the substrate, the tank was clouldy like a bag of flour in it, you could not see anything. The aquasoil really goes into a fine dust, when this happens its a nightmare to clear. Picture me at this moment, 1:00am i'm in my in my pyjamas sat down near the tank, bottoms soaked with water looking at a tank full of muddy black water 3" deep, fish swimming around still thinking "what the hell have you done"
So I thought leave it overnight see if it clears so you can catch the fish.
The following morning I checked, still a pea souper! So I thought the only thing I can do is drain it totally and pick out the livestock, which I did. Got them in the 125 and I thought OK time to remove the substrate. I used the lid pieces from my 125 to split the substrate, and removed the foreground with a mixture of my cooking untensils and bare hands! After I did this I looked down at a sieve and noticed a shrimp in it! ARRRAH, managed to get it in the 125 before it went mental.
So I replaced the sand and added the wood and plants, there you go.
I ordered the plants from birstall, the sp green from tropica, it's the only place I order plants from now can't trust any of the other retailers. Still using the same cylinder, settings remain the same but I am dosing nitrates now as well as ADA ferts so I can keep an eye on the ferns and moss. The moss and rotala pearl too so I guess I am doing something right.
Nicks tank will rock when it gets going
- I've been in that post tank revamp what-have-I-done situation so many times! 
and much prefer it to what it was. I think the wood will look stunning with more growth on there. Very jealous of your wood 
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