Welcome to ScapeCrunch, @Aquajack!
We would love to get to know you. Please tell us about yourself. What tank do you have?
We would love to get to know you. Please tell us about yourself. What tank do you have?
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Thanks so much for enabling access to this forum. Look forward to participating when I can.
Am happy to start off here.
I've only been in the hobby in general for nearly 3 years. In that time, I've always had planted tanks, but has never been a great focus. I had very large tanks early on (10ft 330G) that were full of cichlids and silver dollars so no plants in there.
Over the last 12 months, I've re-focused on the planted tank side of the hobby and now only have heavily planted tanks.
All my tanks are old second hand ones so no opti-clear, low iron rimless. Am very much looking forward to my next tank which will be exactly that.
I consider now the experimenting/learning stage.
Also, all my tanks are organic soil capped with sand. Its all i've ever used. Never touched aquasoil or the like but am very open to different experiences, challenges and ideas - exactly why I've joined this forum! I see the journal by Naturescapes_Rocco using BDBS so keen to see how that progresses.
I have 3 main tanks. The first below is a few photos over the last month 75G Week Aqua L1200 light C02, just using an inline diffuser. It looks a bit different now as I'm gradually rescaping, rather than it looking like a bunch of plants have been dumped into the tank. I'm treating this tank though as experimenting with growing different plants, fine tuning fert dosing, Co2 etc.
The second tank is a 150G, also C02 running an FX6 at one end and a smaller canister at the other where I have the inline C02. The lights are most likely the first equipment I'd like to change. When I set it up 9 months ago, I was struggling to find lights that would penetrate to such a depth. Its a deep tank and the decent aquarium lights cost a fortune and as it isn't a show tank, I decided on grow tent lights from Spider Farm. It is a warm light, probably around 3500K or so, not the best but is what it is.
I'm also in the midst of rescaping that tank too. The carpet is actually Blyxa japonica, one of my favourite plants.
Last but not least, my first ever tank still going is a 7ft long 55G skinny tank. Bought for $25 at a yard sale. Had been sitting there for 25-30 years caked in mud, grime etc. So maybe not the prettiest tank but a great tank to learn on. This one is low tech, cheap lights but still chuggs along ok.
Look forward to exploring the forum more, particularly the tank journals.
Am happy to start off here.
I've only been in the hobby in general for nearly 3 years. In that time, I've always had planted tanks, but has never been a great focus. I had very large tanks early on (10ft 330G) that were full of cichlids and silver dollars so no plants in there.
Over the last 12 months, I've re-focused on the planted tank side of the hobby and now only have heavily planted tanks.
All my tanks are old second hand ones so no opti-clear, low iron rimless. Am very much looking forward to my next tank which will be exactly that.
I consider now the experimenting/learning stage.
Also, all my tanks are organic soil capped with sand. Its all i've ever used. Never touched aquasoil or the like but am very open to different experiences, challenges and ideas - exactly why I've joined this forum! I see the journal by Naturescapes_Rocco using BDBS so keen to see how that progresses.
I have 3 main tanks. The first below is a few photos over the last month 75G Week Aqua L1200 light C02, just using an inline diffuser. It looks a bit different now as I'm gradually rescaping, rather than it looking like a bunch of plants have been dumped into the tank. I'm treating this tank though as experimenting with growing different plants, fine tuning fert dosing, Co2 etc.
The second tank is a 150G, also C02 running an FX6 at one end and a smaller canister at the other where I have the inline C02. The lights are most likely the first equipment I'd like to change. When I set it up 9 months ago, I was struggling to find lights that would penetrate to such a depth. Its a deep tank and the decent aquarium lights cost a fortune and as it isn't a show tank, I decided on grow tent lights from Spider Farm. It is a warm light, probably around 3500K or so, not the best but is what it is.
I'm also in the midst of rescaping that tank too. The carpet is actually Blyxa japonica, one of my favourite plants.
Last but not least, my first ever tank still going is a 7ft long 55G skinny tank. Bought for $25 at a yard sale. Had been sitting there for 25-30 years caked in mud, grime etc. So maybe not the prettiest tank but a great tank to learn on. This one is low tech, cheap lights but still chuggs along ok.
Look forward to exploring the forum more, particularly the tank journals.
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Some really nice tanks. i really like the long one.
Thankyou. The first scape of the long tank was high tech. Due to dimensions though it would become overgrown quick. On the flip side though, those same dimensions do allow for some interesting scape ideas.
Really nice growth in there. What brand of soil did you use under your sand cap?
I only used organic soil. I do find it has explosive growth for around 6 months or so then levels off as the nutrients reduce. Based on one of your reddit posts and interaction, I'm about to move to dry salts as the main source of nutrients. The most growth is where the CO2 flow is directed for obvious reasons. Ensuring good distribution of CO2 doesn't seem to be talked about enough in this hobby.
How are you injecting your CO2?
Only using an inline diffuser. So yes to some degree it gets the sprite look.
When I eventually get around to setting up a show tank I think a reactor will be the way to go.
I did use a reactor when I first setup these tanks about 6-9 months but had a terrible experience.
I even had a dedicated canister filter hooked up to it. One problem was it didn't last long. It was a Sera Flore reactor, poor quality, and the connection where the CO2 joined broke off after a month (one of their known faults apparently). I also had to upend it every day for the reactor to fill with water again, otherwise it wasn't working at all as the propeller wasn't spinning. Next time, I'll look at something like the Yugang reactor after seeing you guys playing around with that.
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