Once Upon A Time At The Riverbank

[Million]

Very nice scape there, looking forward to some close ups of those fish

 

[Miah002]

Your tanks looking good.

 

[mfcphil]

You have yourself a beautiful tank there

 

[keenonfish]

Stunning

 

[SuperColey1]

At last I've found time for an update. Been a little sidetracked over the past few weeks

The Rasboras are still looking great after month in the tank. Very hard to count them but I think (and I mean very rough think) that there are 21!!! I expected a few losses though and 4 gone from 25 is not too bad. Not seen any bodies. that's one bane of having shrimp. You never know if fish have died because unless they are big fish there is no carcass left within a few hours of the shrimp crowding over it.

The plants are growing and there have been a few melted crypt leaves but overall not too much. A few of the ferns and anubias leaves must've dried out a little too much whilst I was rescaping and they are gradually disintegrating but no algae whatsoever (as I am now accustomed to )

Pics aren't great but did my best trying to get the right combination of ISO/White Balance and 'EV'?

So first here is a pic of the tank with the roomlight on so you can see what I see (not exactly the same colour as I see otherwise it would just look like a white space above a cabinet ):

This is the tank taken from slightly below the tank level looking upward:

This one is taken with the camera level to the tank:

And this is taken from above at an angle:

Onto a couple of pics of the Rasboras. I forgot to put the 'EV?' back up towards default on these so they look a little dark :

Thats it for now but I am reasonably happy. Will update in about a month or so

AC

 

[nosoup4you]

Looking great! I really like the wood and the Rasboras are really nice.

 

[Truck]

composition is great, a real sense of depth. well done

 

[SuperColey1]

This journal has gone a little quiet over the last month. I had some fungus/rot problems with the black Corys which I have been dealing with and today they spawned at record levels You can see some tail damage in these pictures but the spawn (They haven't spawned since the end of March!!!) says they are over the problem:

In a week or 2 I will update once I sort the tank out a bit. One inhabitant yet to be ID'd is eating Anubias and Ferns!!! I am guessing the Rasbora 'hoover' Espei because they will eat anything!!!

AC

 

[BigTom]

Looks lovely, what are the long flowing plants attached to the wood?

 

[SuperColey1]

Needle Fern (microsorum pteropus 'needle')

AC

 

[FishBeast]

Does your gravel cleaning upset your gravel/sand layout? Your tank looks great by the way!

 

[SuperColey1]

I don't gravel clean so no it doesn't affect it. lol

A lot of the gravel has been buried by burrowing Corys and the flow in the tank but it wasn't put there for appearance really. Was more to add some extra top layer to the 2 corners where the sand was thinning out.

I like to leave the substrate once in to develop it's own natural contours rather than scraping it back into a position all the time. I much prefer things to look natural

AC

 

[three-fingers]

Looks fantastic, love it!

Very interesting to see the LED's working so well (if only I had the patience/skill to make that kind of unit) and it's an incredibly nice looking scape .

 

[fishtankkid]

Looking great!!!

 

[frenchie]

how does the superglue affect trimming the plants? Are they easy to remove from the wood to do so?