Se Asian Biotope

[Biulu]

I am having a HOB on a 60 ltr tank and it is not making noise at all. It only does when the waterlevel gets too low, but normally it simply flows into the tank.

 

[coldcazzie]

Bucket of mud

Bucket of crypts (58 in total!)

Scape build

Filling

Hope that's enough pictures for you all!

 

[Biulu]

A very interesting scape! I like the slope and the addition of rocks. Would you like to take some sort of an advantage of the fact that part of your wood is above the water?

 

[lljdma06]

This looks really cool! Very impressed that the tank wasn't too muddy when you filled up.

 

[ian]

this should look nice when it's grown in. Nice slope of the substrate.



Just a little tip, (i know i'm no pro photographer), but try taking you pics just using the tank light, and switch the flash off. It doesn't give you best perception of a scape.

 

[coldcazzie]

A very interesting scape! I like the slope and the addition of rocks. Would you like to take some sort of an advantage of the fact that part of your wood is above the water?

Yes, eventually I'd like to have some Malay Fern growing on the emergent bits of wood, plus some marginal plants on the side and back.

This looks really cool! Very impressed that the tank wasn't too muddy when you filled up.

I know! I was pleasantly surprised!

this should look nice when it's grown in. Nice slope of the substrate.

Just a little tip, (i know i'm no pro photographer), but try taking you pics just using the tank light, and switch the flash off. It doesn't give you best perception of a scape.

Yeah, the issue was that I was taking pictures in the middle of the day and it's on the opposite wall from our bedroom window so the glare was awful! I'll take some better pictures when I get back home although I will admit I forgot to turn the flash off once or twice

 

[coldcazzie]

Update time. Tank is now home to about 60 cherry shrimp. There was quite a lot of crypt melt so I sucked all that out over a couple of water changes, as well as that white gunk that forms on new wood. The cherries have done a great job of clearing the bits of gunk that I missed/couldn't reach.

Managed to get an extension lead this week so the tank is now heated! The light on the heater is very bright in the middle of the night lol.

I also bought a 600l/h HOB from aps, which is actually really good, apart from the horrendous noise that the motor makes! man-wife is going to have a look at it. I didn't like how it was going being filter free - the gunk on the surface was too much!

My java fern is currently reproducing in the Rio 240 so as soon as the babies have detached I will remove the top piece of wood and glue them on. Plus more moss on some of the branched bits of wood.

Here's a quick phone pic snapped last night:

Will take some more later

 

[minnnt]

Looking good Caz! Hope your cherries breed so i can have some

 

[coldcazzie]

Oh they will, never fear!

 

[hanny93]

me too pleaaaase

 

[minnnt]

me too pleaaaase

You back in the game then?

 

[StandbySetting]

I love this, there's nothing greater than a biotope and you've pulled it off nicely!

 

[hanny93]

me too pleaaaase

You back in the game then?

OF COURSE!

 

[coldcazzie]

Thanks Jack!

I'm really looking forward to it being fully planted up. I'm hoping for:

One of these in the back left corner, and one of these in the front left corner planted in a couple of these, tops level with the water line.

More crypts obviously, a smaller sp towards the right, and taller thin leaved ones in the back left. Java fern on the wood, more moss on the branchy ends.

Ferns on the branches which poke out of the water too far to put moss on them, like this or this.

Still looking at plants... but you might be able to tell what my final picture looks like in my head...

 

[coldcazzie]

Ok, here's some pictures.

FTS, slightly offside:

Shrimp on the end of the wood:

Shrimp like prawn to eat

Harlequins in their new home:

Crypt regrowth:

Christmas moss is starting to grow:

As you can see, rather a lot of melt, but each other these plants now has new leaves growing on it, so I'm happy

Finally, another FTS, central this time