cheesy feet
Fish Aficionado
Set up my Aquacube 40 a month ago.Sadly as the plants i ordered came about 11 days before quite a few rotted in the bucket.Atm a few plants are struggling for light so i am moving them around, thats why the layout looks different in each picture..I will upgrade to another power compact T5 soon (within the next month), after that all i need is a new filter for cosmetic reasons 
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Set up includes;
ADA soil Amazonia
18 watt PC
Nutrafin co2
bogwood
100 watt heater
Betta Splendends, L204 and a zebra danio (just recued them, won't be in here for long).
Plants- Rotala Rotundifolia (worst of the lot atm), wisteria, red ludwigia, ludwigia rubin, Crypt Wendtii(sprouted 5 baby plantlets already), Hydrocotyle locecophala(sprouted loads of new leaves, was badly damaged from being kept in a bucket
), 4 leaf clover (just starting to sprout new leaves after rotting away), baby amazon swords (for time being to prevent algae), Straight vallis, 2x anubias barteri eyes, 1x Anubias nana ,stargrass, java moss,(taken of new leaves 3 days ago and has sprouted a new one already).
I cycled the tank with some of my guppies, suprisingly after the first time i tested the levels ( a week in) all levels were stable and it had cycled.
5 days in
Had a messy time with the ADA soil as it had already been put in the bucket.The mulm stuck on all the plants.I stuck a large filter in to clear it.
Something inbetween lol
Started getting algae so added some swords 3x baby amazons from my mother plant a big edgeria densins or something, stargrass (I am trying to spell it how i said it before.lol).The wisteria reached the top of the tank by now but i trimmed it into 5 other peices. and have done sdo 4 more times so far.
All algae became dead for the first time ever and i think i have got the nack
co2 and heavily planting seriously does obliterate algae haha.-the dumb thing is i took pictures after rearranging the tank each time so it all looks cloudy, bummer..
12 days in
--Added Mr betta
The mushy stuff here -------^^^^^^^^^^^ is the seeds of the 4 leaf clover,look closely and you can see a few little leaves
Tommorow(19 days), to come...
I have removed the big sword and soon will remove them amazons and wisteria.Then be left with java moss and anubias' on the bogwood + vallis at the back and about 1/3 or 1/4 of the tank with crypt wendtii, ludwigia, rotala rotundifolia and ground covering four leaf clover.
.Set up includes;
ADA soil Amazonia
18 watt PC
Nutrafin co2
bogwood
100 watt heater
Betta Splendends, L204 and a zebra danio (just recued them, won't be in here for long).
Plants- Rotala Rotundifolia (worst of the lot atm), wisteria, red ludwigia, ludwigia rubin, Crypt Wendtii(sprouted 5 baby plantlets already), Hydrocotyle locecophala(sprouted loads of new leaves, was badly damaged from being kept in a bucket
), 4 leaf clover (just starting to sprout new leaves after rotting away), baby amazon swords (for time being to prevent algae), Straight vallis, 2x anubias barteri eyes, 1x Anubias nana ,stargrass, java moss,(taken of new leaves 3 days ago and has sprouted a new one already).I cycled the tank with some of my guppies, suprisingly after the first time i tested the levels ( a week in) all levels were stable and it had cycled.
5 days in
Had a messy time with the ADA soil as it had already been put in the bucket.The mulm stuck on all the plants.I stuck a large filter in to clear it.
Something inbetween lol
Started getting algae so added some swords 3x baby amazons from my mother plant a big edgeria densins or something, stargrass (I am trying to spell it how i said it before.lol).The wisteria reached the top of the tank by now but i trimmed it into 5 other peices. and have done sdo 4 more times so far.
All algae became dead for the first time ever and i think i have got the nack
co2 and heavily planting seriously does obliterate algae haha.-the dumb thing is i took pictures after rearranging the tank each time so it all looks cloudy, bummer..
12 days in
The mushy stuff here -------^^^^^^^^^^^ is the seeds of the 4 leaf clover,look closely and you can see a few little leaves
Tommorow(19 days), to come...
I have removed the big sword and soon will remove them amazons and wisteria.Then be left with java moss and anubias' on the bogwood + vallis at the back and about 1/3 or 1/4 of the tank with crypt wendtii, ludwigia, rotala rotundifolia and ground covering four leaf clover.
) will be a heavily planted loww low tech tank with bogwood ,discus etc!
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O and why said if we can fix it (for the rio 400) is because the glass is bowing about a centimete 
I think my substrate is a bit shallow so I will be looking around if anyone has some left over or spare 
Stargrass is doing well, too.
When i get the big guy going all the 300watt heaters will be going into him, so i have an excuse i need one lol.
