SamH Posted October 25, 2010 Report Share Posted October 25, 2010 Wow, that's a really nice tank! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deepsound Posted October 25, 2010 Author Report Share Posted October 25, 2010 wow that is awesome! A step by step would also be appreciated how often do you change the water? About 12 or 20 L every month Add rainwater or osmosed water for compensating evaporation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deepsound Posted October 25, 2010 Author Report Share Posted October 25, 2010 Wow, that's a really nice tank! Hey Samh ! Thanks you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deepsound Posted October 25, 2010 Author Report Share Posted October 25, 2010 what's the green mossy plant on the sand at the front left side? monosolenium tenerum Love this one. It's like a moss. No roots. I'll try to post you a close-up pic. In another tank, with 2x39w T5 and 30cm height (this tank is a 50 cm height), I got literaly a big carpet of this one. It doesn't need CO2 or fertilizer but with more light, it's very dense. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deepsound Posted October 25, 2010 Author Report Share Posted October 25, 2010 Wow! How do you do that? What is your secret to creating a stunning piece of work like that? Tell me tell me TELL ME!!! *yoda's voice* Patient, you must be. A lot of trials, you'll have to do. One day, will be in your tank, a piece of nature. I usually build a tank before I... got the tank. It begins with a driftwood or a rock that inspire me. For this one, I bought first the driftwood on the right. It was so beautiful, I instantly wanted to make something with it ! Then I built the aquascape from it, placing another driftwood, then some plate rocks and so on. In another tank, a nano I made 3 weeks ago, it started with some volcanic rocks I found this summer, during holidays when I was walking though a mountain with some friends of mine. When I saw them, I said to myself : wow ! Gonna make a 20 L with these ones !!! (can't help myself collecting stones since I was kid... my parents was about to euthanize me cause of the usual 20kgs of stones I've been brought back home every holidays). And I made it one month after during a sunday afternoon. I never draw a plan on a paper / screen. Indeed, I start to built the tank in my mind. I let it grows, give it time to make it mature. Then, when I feel it's ok (=nothing to remove), I built it somewhat quickly. You have to train yourself to know instinctively what kind of plants / driftwood / stones you can use, how you can match them. [edit for some mistakes I just saw] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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phoenix44 Posted October 25, 2010 Report Share Posted October 25, 2010 Welcome back hahaha :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sophia Posted October 25, 2010 Report Share Posted October 25, 2010 Deepsound did you tie the moss to a stone or just plant some pieces in the gravel? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deepsound Posted October 25, 2010 Author Report Share Posted October 25, 2010 Welcome back hahaha :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deepsound Posted October 25, 2010 Author Report Share Posted October 25, 2010 Deepsound did you tie the moss to a stone or just plant some pieces in the gravel? I just put some pieces on the gravel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sophia Posted October 25, 2010 Report Share Posted October 25, 2010 Hey and don't forget you said that you would post some pics of your werneri threadfins when they came out of summer camp.... I haven't forgotten 8) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Posted October 26, 2010 Report Share Posted October 26, 2010 Cool thanks for telling me. Hopefully I might end up with something at least half as cool as yours - if I could make it that far, I'd be very pleased Just wondered, do you use any substrate fertilizer (e.g. JBL AquaBasis Plus) underneath your main substrate, or root balls or something, or just liquid fertilizer? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deepsound Posted October 29, 2010 Author Report Share Posted October 29, 2010 Yep, I used Aquabasis plus (only 10 L.) mixed with the first layer of manado. There's about 8-10cm of soil in the back. Then I add root balls (JBL, the ones for ponds, they are bigger) for each plant with big root system as cryptocorine, echino etc. I add new ones every quarter. 2 or 4 drops of Ferropol 24 daily (but sometimes I forget, no big deal, and you can use another fertilizer). Depend on the amount of vegetation. DIY C02 I change every month. When the tank is mature, (when bacteria have colonized the different layers of the soil), I hardly ever siphon off it. I use the substrate as a filter as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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