Soar.

[Bloo]

I love your new scape already look forward to see it settle and mature

 

[Jen]

This is absolutely stunning. It's amazing what you can do with such a small place.

I can't wait to see this progress.

 

[planter]

nice one moody will enjoy watching this one progress as much as I did the last!

 

[Neal]

What sort of landscape should I do Moody? I'm trusting you to come up with ideas, but i'm not forcing you to do anything. I pretty much know the plants I want to use, but i'm unsure of a hardscape.

Neal

 

[Graeme Edwards]

Neal, if you want some real help i will suggest that you start a new thread with pictures of the materials you have and go from there.I could draw up a really nice tank for you but it would all be a fantasy without seeing the hard materials like rocks and wood.

Same goes for any one else who wants my help to aqua-scape ,or you can PM me.

Thanks to you all for your coments of support, much apreciated.
keep watching


R
Graeme.

 

[Neal]

Ok mate, i'll get on to it when I recieve my tank.

Neal

 

[Graeme Edwards]

Just wanted to share it.

 

[Neal]

Looks great, any possible chance you could take a birds eye view of the tank?

Neal

 

[Graeme Edwards]

Hi guys up date time.

All has been going well down at Soar.

Water changes have been done every other day without fail! with dechlorinated tap water @ 50% at each water change.

Fertilizing has been ADA brighty step one @ 5 drops the first week and then 10 drops there after, yesterday i dropped this down to 7 drops. The fertilizer is added after each water change.

The plants are doing well the Riccia be the most obvious but the moss is also growing well.

There is a slight hint of algae on my sand. I have no animals in there apart from some snails ( the curly flat type ) and some cyclops. Not sure what I'm going to do if this becomes an issue, my water isn't pure enough for shrimp and i cant bring myself to buy RO water from a shop, ill be there every flipping day no that would be to tempting!

Did my first test only PH and KH!

The cube has ADA aqua soil Malay. I know this substrate effects KH so i was interested to see what my KH reading was, well the water is that soft that the KH didn't even register, all i know is its below 10ppm thats 0.6 degrees or less, i cross referenced this with my PH and if the KH was at 10ppm this would give me 18ppm of Co2. Ordinarily in this cube without ADA substrate the amount of Co2 that i am putting in would be around 45ppm Co2. So now knowing these figure i have pushed the Co2 up, I have no reading as yet.
Before i cranked it up i was running at one bubble per 2.5 seconds now its one bubble per 2 seconds ( I'm going to increase this again further!).
I have to admit, i don't fully understand the relationship between KH and PH. I know they are linked to each other and have tried reading numerous articles on the subject but still struggle to fully understand the whole chemistry. Any one who can give me a layman's description would be great!


OK OK heres some picture taken tonight.

FRONT


FROM THE RIGHT. TO ME THE BEST SIDE!



AND AN AERIAL VIEW



Cheers,
Graeme.

 

[Jeewhizz]

Very nice!

 

[mikster]

That tank is superb, i was amazed at how good it looked when you first set it up but now it looks even better. I wish i could find some rocks that cool

 

[Gill]

Incredible Tank,

Where are you getting these cubes from. Are they Vases?
I've seen similiar designs in Wilko but they are only about 750ml size.

 

[Themuleous]

Nice mate just wonder if it needs something at the front? Seems very squashed into one corner? But that could just be the camera.

Plants certainly look healthy

Sam

 

[BigIan]

Thats looking amazing. But have to agree with Themuleous it does look a little crushed into one corner, but then i guess thats what you were trying to acheeve so it looks like the rocks coming out of the sea??

 

[littlelegs]

i think it looks fantastic. i cant fault it at all.