Thought I’d post a few snaps of the 120x60x45(h) cm optiwhite Aquascaper aquarium I hardscaped Monday. It’s a Christmas present for my eldest son.
I’ll post some pics of it planted soon
I’ll post some pics of it planted soon
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Journal Soil Substrate Nature Aquarium
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Excited to see what you're doing with this, Tim! I have a 120P and I like the size, but I'd love it to be a smidge shorter and deeper like this. Any idea what sort of livestock is going to end up in here?
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Thanks Elle. My son’s existing fish are going in. This is an upgrade from the JUWEL Rio 180 we bought him a few Christmas’ ago. His taste is a little eclectic.
I think he has penguin tetras, cardinals, rummy nose tetras, assorted corys, otos, phantom tetras, and his favourite 4 large pearl gouramis. Plus amanos and cherry shrimp.
It’s low-energy and his water is very hard, so I’ve planted it with assorted crypts, an echinodorus ozelot leopard, that will grow out the surface, a red tiger lily, and vallis spirals. I also floated a water lettuce and a water chestnut. Invasive in the wild but awesome in a tank. .
Most of the plants can synthesise carbon from bicarbonates. And the soil has a lot of peat in it — an old bag I’ve had for over a decade — so it’ll release CO2 as it mineralises.
I think he has penguin tetras, cardinals, rummy nose tetras, assorted corys, otos, phantom tetras, and his favourite 4 large pearl gouramis. Plus amanos and cherry shrimp.
It’s low-energy and his water is very hard, so I’ve planted it with assorted crypts, an echinodorus ozelot leopard, that will grow out the surface, a red tiger lily, and vallis spirals. I also floated a water lettuce and a water chestnut. Invasive in the wild but awesome in a tank. .
Most of the plants can synthesise carbon from bicarbonates. And the soil has a lot of peat in it — an old bag I’ve had for over a decade — so it’ll release CO2 as it mineralises.
