Saintly's60x30x36 Optiwhite( Re Scape)

saintly · Jun 29, 2008

cheers guys,

was such a tuff decision on which rock formation to go with. im sure in time it'l look alot better than it is now.

saintly · Jul 2, 2008

i m going to start adding my photos via photobucket. better image quality.
this is a test shot.

these will be my night time lights

saintly · Jul 3, 2008

couple more updates. things are settling down nicely. glosso is starting to spread. no algae! good old flourish excel :good:

aaronnorth · Jul 3, 2008

whats the blue light? are you just dosing excell to start off with or are you keeping it?

saintly · Jul 3, 2008

the blue light is just a 9 w arcadia on the small tank and 2 x 11 w on the big.

a little birdy informed me of some great tips on how to get hc started off. and dosing excell was one of them. not permanetly though. hc loves it!

saintly · Jul 3, 2008

just realised what you mean arron, regarding the blue light. :crazy:

sorry.

thats the blue led of my pc behind me, yeh i know, reflections and all that... :blush:

Themuleous · Jul 4, 2008

Very nice, given a few weeks to fill out, thats is gonna look stunning

Sam

saintly · Jul 4, 2008

thanks sam.

these are the fish that are going in. there currently in my big tank at the mo.

white cloud mountain minnow.

heres the tank close up.

MermaidMel · Jul 4, 2008

It looks nice. How are you going to get your external into the cabinet now :lol:

Do you find the water evaporates and leaves limescale marks round the top of the tank like I do? I live in a very hard water area though.

saintly · Jul 4, 2008

hi mermaid, ive adapted the cabinet. everythings out until i know its all running smoothly. well thats the idea. :nod:

water does evaporate, but i dont get any marks. using ada aquasoil reduces the hardness of the water. amazing stuff, honestly. i wont use anything else.

a shot from the side. the more i look at this, the more i want to do a rescape in my big tank. :crazy:

cheers

mark

saintly · Jul 5, 2008

some new inhabitents.

i will add more in time. when the filter can handle it. ive also added 3 amano shrimp.

thanks for looking.

mark

MermaidMel · Jul 5, 2008

saintly said:
some new inhabitents.

i will add more in time. when the filter can handle it. ive also added 3 amano shrimp.

thanks for looking.

mark

It's probably written down in the thread, but to save me looking, what plants have you used? Cheers :good:

saintly · Jul 5, 2008

no probs mel,

in the fore ground.... hc Hemianthus callitrichoides

then Pogostemon helferi around the front of rocks

at the side of rocks Echinodorus tenellus

and then in the background vivipara (Eleocharis )

there just a bunch of plants that work well together. typycal amano layout really. he uses these alot in his iwagumi layouts.