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Just a few pictures to show where we are with this at the moment. The pictures might make it look a little "cleaner" and possibly "fuller" than it actually is. The phones weaknesses really showed up in these. Struggles with white balance especially when pointing at a great source, makes some...

And then the last photos I took are from 17th April 2019. There are no full tank shots here as I was photographing my first new arrivals into the tank. 6 Zebra Otos (Otocinclus Cocama.) I will update further as the scape progresses and grows back in. There was a vast amount of pruning to...

Seems I didn't take many more pictures of the tank as it was then. I moved house last year in September and the tank lay in an emersed state for months untouched and going a bit manky. At the beginning of March I tidied it up a bit and re spread some Monte Carlo along the front with Dwarf...

Wow, 27th June 17 was my last post on this and I didn't even show it filled. This is still going so I'll try and update from pictures I have on the HD. These pictures are from 17th July 2017:

An update on the low tech Mopani scape. I have added all my blue jelly cull stock into this tank. I don't cull shrimp. The fish from my larger tank have also gone into this scape so that is approx 15 Boraras and 2 Otos. There is now Amazon Frogbit floating on the top. I tried Salvinia Natans...

Not much to post because it is a DSM. I did add another cobble on the right of the scape where I was umming and ahhing if the plants would disguise the "join" between monte carlo and Crypts. A couple of weeks of looking at that part constantly ended up making the decision for me. If I am...

Shattered tree 1 week into DSM. Not much change. The monte carlo will change into emersed form before it starts to grow and fill out. I added some Anubias petite on the branch in the centre to hide the screws which were slightly visible.

No fish at the moment. They are in my 30ltr while I sort this out and undecided if they will go back in here or into a different tank.

I will dose it a bit anyway. About 1/7th of what I would dose if it was hi tec with Co2. About 12ml per week rather than 12ml per day with CO2 (although I will probably add it 2ml ish per day) The light can be 1 row (18W), 2 rows (36W) or 3 rows (54W) So during the DSM i am using the whole...

At night I sorted the tank out with substrate etc. Long post this one and lots of pictures step by step: First off I cleaned the tank up and poured the last of some leonardite I had left over from aquascapes in the late noughties :) Then I added a layer of the old akadama that had been rinsed...