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The aquascape is now 2 weeks old and as with all non CO2 setups it hasn't really grown much however it still looks nice and clean and I have now installed my backlighting.   The backlighting is 4 x RGB 5050 30/m strips. It is pretty flexible in that you can choose loads of colours and adjust the...

It is acrylic.  made an 8mm one for my little 30 litre and that bent so with this one I went for 12mm.............Yes it has bent.  If you look where the 2 pieces meet in the centre the lift up a little and the same at the ends.   It isn't from the heat of the lights.  The Luminaire one is the...

Not sure I understand what you mean by the novel way of heating the water?  There is no heating at all on this tank.  It sits at an ambient 21 - 22C which is basically the house temperature + a little extra from the filter.  My house thermo is at 18C. 

Thought I would just add some pics of the Simoni Simoni shrimp and the Heteranthera added in the rear.            

Technical Specs: 30 litre Opti-white aquarium (L 40cm, H 30cm, D 30cm) Eheim 2211 (Classic 150) external cannister filter AquaEL Leddy Smart Plant 6W Luminaire (8 hours per day) Gush O bubble glass outlet and generic 13mm glass inlet. Fertilisation 0.5ml Lush Max daily   Plants: Ammania Bonsai...

Many thanks. It is still working but the 18 LEDs proved way too fast growth. Not algae problems but pruning every other day is not my thing :)   I am now running it with just the front and back rows on and it is still growing pretty fast.   I should add just to address the concerns of MDF...

After saying that this scape was nearing its end I think I must have talked myself into doing it sooner rather than later and therefore with no further photos (it hadn't changed in a few days) thus ends this journal and another journal will replace it for the new scape :)

I tend to be a little different to most aquascapers.  I am always aiming to have something much more permanent.  My scapes are more like part of my decor.  So like I may change the colour scheme / decor of a room every 3 or 4 years thats what I aim for with my scapes.   It might be also me not...

All of the updates so far have been pictures taken after a pruning and I was asked to take some pictures before pruning showing the Rotala at the back. Not one for being bashful I took the pictures the very next day (10th April.) Not one for being very motivated it has taken me 6 weeks to...

A backdated update here :)  This is from 10th April 2015:   A long time since the last update of this little scape but it doesn't really change that much. It has moved on a little in terms of growth but not that much. I have been adding a few plants here and there but I am terrible at...

Thought I would add some pics of it working over the flooded scape: My daughter is more interested in the light than the scape. lol:

How time flies. It is nearly 3 months since this aquascape was flooded. Just a few cheeky pictures here. This is just after I have heavily pruned the Rotala sp Green and Hemmianthus Micranthemoides.   A few changes since the last update. The Proserpinaca Palustris was growing so slowly that I...

Just to update the above problem has gone now :)

In Opera Browser (on laptop) when I click on my bookmark I get this:       Then when I click on 'ignore this warning' I get the exclamation mark next to the address bar which when clicked on looks like this:       You will notice that I have both adblock and adblockplus in this browser.

In Opera Browser after emptying cash and history:   Now when I click on my bookmark the splash screen warning me about malware and asking me if I want to return to my home page or ignore the warning has gone..................however when the page loads up it still has the little red circle with...

Works fine in Firefoc but Opera still showing me the warning signs. lol

First time I have had any problem today and I come to the site via a bookmark.   Clicked on the bookmark and Opera browser gave me a 'malicious site flash page'.  Said that this site was flagged up as malicious and gave me the option to return or ignore the warning.  I ignored the warning and it...

I virtually covered it from the start in reality.  I used a lot of Monte Carlo there that I bought from someone.  Was probably the equivalent of 10 pots worth :)

Thanks for the compliment.   r.e. Staurogyne Repens.  This is the first time I have used it but apart from some browning during the 9 week (oops lazy me) dry start it has flourished.  I have hacked it back down at the moment just as I did with the Ranunculus and Hydrocotyle.  They got quite...

Many thanks ;)  Jumping the gun a bit on tank of the month.  It's not grown in yet :)

On the 19th I filled this tank. Before filling I glued some anubias and microsorum pteropus var narrow onto the branches. I am always extremely tight with ferns at the startup. The anubias came from my shrimp tanks and I bought the narrow fern from Aqua Essentials   There is no need really to...

Well so much for the 4 or 5 week dry start plan. As usual my laziness and motivation played a factor here but about a week ago I finally decorated behind the aquarium which then left me free to get on with things.   So finally the DSM ends and the aquarium is flooded after 9 weeks and 2 days of...

:)  I have to suck up the akadama that covers the path each water change and then drop it back on the banks.

Its pretty simple.  The whole tank was flooded with tap water for a day.  The Akadama soaks up all the nutrients and everything else virtually in the water.  Then water siphoned out and planting commenced.   Then lights on for 14 hours a day and covered with clear poly taped in a few places so a...

Thanks for the comments guys :)   He goes somewhere else only when he is being walked twice a day for 20 minutes and when he hears the food coming out.  The rest he sleeps :)  Thats what greyhounds do.  Skinny legs supporting 40kg must be tiring.   I'll try and take a pic when he isn't there :)

The aquascape has now completed 3 weeks of the dry start method. All the plants that are actually planted in the substrate are in place now.   All that is left to do when the DSM stage finishes is to attach the ferns and anubias.   It will probably end up being a 5 or 6 week DSM because I...

Nearly a week on and this aquascape has been under all 9W of light since I got back to looking after it. As yet no algae problems and the shrimp all look fine.   I took a few pictures of them and they show how different blue pearls can be. Some are a nice icy blue while others barely show a...

A quick update. The 'monte carlo' and Tripiarta has had 6 days of the DSM and now I have planted Staurogyne Repens, Ranunculous Inundata, Ammania Bonsoi and a couple of other plants I impulsivley added just to try which are Proserpinaca Plustria and Hemianthus Micranthemoides. Will update again...

17 months since the last update and this little tank is still going. It hasn't changed a huge amount as I have had it on very very low light. The moss has started to cover the banks and the original Ammania and Tripiarta disappeared over this time.   The Fissidens also went a bit manky so most...

  Lol.  One year late but will post some updates in the next couple of days.  This is a low light low energy setup so not much has changed really.       The inlet is a 13mm cheap chinese knock off one from ebay.  The 'O bubble' outlet is a 10mm Gush one I imported from a German shop.  Cost me...

you already found the other scaped one I see :)

I only have this large one and another Nano that are 'aquascaped'.  The other 7 are just planted tanks.

  Lol.  Nope by trade I am a management accountant although I stopped doing that 15 years ago.  Thats where the spreadsheeting started.  Then I moved into creating access databases and warehouse management.  Then I became an egg packer.  Then I became a welder's mate.  Since then I have been...

  Feel free with the acrylic idea.  I'm sure others have tried it.   Lights on/off seperately is pretty simple.  It's just a case of running seperate series in the same unit.  so 3 timers, 3 plugs to 3 drivers and then each driver to a different string.  This was the Mk1 so 5 different series, 5...

Zifofski - Are you sure you are not me???  :D  Your pictures remind me of my past:   2009 - Mk1 version   2010 - Mk2 Version     Yep these LEDs do run hot however I don't think it will be a problem.  These heatsinks are 60cm long and spread the heat out really well.  They are open to the air...

  Not sure whether it will be shrimp only or if it will have fish as well.  Going to run it ambient so approx 21C so if I do add fish they will have to be lower temp ones.

The 3 sections are now cut and they are tested structurally. By that I mean that they are merely placed into position with no glue at all. The sandwich placed on the rim. The angles placed on the bottom sandwich and then the acrylic sheet with the upper sandwich is rested on top. It stands up...

The holes now routed ready for the lense holders I started to polish the edges of the sheet as well as the holes that I just routed. The pictures below show how the sheet looked from P240 right through to P1200 and then using some car scratch remover. You can clearly see my keyfob through 28cm...

A little belated this thread but I thought I would add this as I have now started using it.  The start of this project was May 2012.  you can see the year on each picture   This is a little belated but I thought I would add it  The MkII version was still working well after 3 and a half years...

Technical Specs: 140 litre Opti-white aquarium (L 80cm, H 45cm, D 40cm) Eheim 2224 external cannister filter DIY 18 x 3W Luminaire (8 hours per day) CO2 - Pressurised with UP inline atomiser Fertilisation 5ml Lush Max daily Plants: Micranthemum 'Monte Carlo', Hydrocotyle Tripiarta, Ammania...