Hey Everyone,
After spending the last 6 months making mistakes, learning and growing my knowledge of planted tanks, I have decided to try my first serious Aquascape. This is the first of two tanks that I am doing. It is to house a pair of my Ivanacara Adoketa which will be the eventual highlight of the tank. After spending time collecting all my Anubias Petite and Anubias Nana I thought this would be the perfect opportunity to showcase them all in a single scape. At this stage I still wanted this to be a low tech tank so I am not using CO2, however I will probably dose a little bit of fertiliser every couple of weeks. As I am often interstate for uni/work at the moment, I need to leave the tank in the care of my housemates so I can't afford for it to be overly complicated.
TANK
Rimless 50cm length x 29cm width x 29cm height
FILTRATION
Shiruba XB303 Canister Filter 300 l/h
HEATING
Eheim Jager 75w heater
LIGHTING
Aqualina 2x24w T5HO
Substrate
ADA Amazonia soil
HARDSCAPE
Yingshi Rock
Goldvine
FLORA
Anubias Nana
Anubias Petite
Needle Leaf Java Fern
Crypt Willisii
FAUNA
Ivanacara Adoketa
Otocinclus
The Anubias is the main feature of this tank, however I do have some Needle Leaf Java Fern plantlets sitting behind the goldvine, however as they are quite small you can't really see them in the photo. I do feel that I need to add something to the branches of the driftwood but I am not sure what would fit in - I have some weeping moss that I could place strategically?
Also I was thinking about what I could do for the foreground, keeping in mind that my Ivanacara Adoketa are pretty destructive and are continually digging pits in the substrate so a carpeting plant would need to be fairly hardy to avoid getting uprooting - I was looking at UG, otherwise my other idea was just to simply use some Ketapang/Indian Almond Leaves?
I will post an update in a week or so once the tank has cycled.
Cheers,
Tucker
After spending the last 6 months making mistakes, learning and growing my knowledge of planted tanks, I have decided to try my first serious Aquascape. This is the first of two tanks that I am doing. It is to house a pair of my Ivanacara Adoketa which will be the eventual highlight of the tank. After spending time collecting all my Anubias Petite and Anubias Nana I thought this would be the perfect opportunity to showcase them all in a single scape. At this stage I still wanted this to be a low tech tank so I am not using CO2, however I will probably dose a little bit of fertiliser every couple of weeks. As I am often interstate for uni/work at the moment, I need to leave the tank in the care of my housemates so I can't afford for it to be overly complicated.
TANK
Rimless 50cm length x 29cm width x 29cm height
FILTRATION
Shiruba XB303 Canister Filter 300 l/h
HEATING
Eheim Jager 75w heater
LIGHTING
Aqualina 2x24w T5HO
Substrate
ADA Amazonia soil
HARDSCAPE
Yingshi Rock
Goldvine
FLORA
Anubias Nana
Anubias Petite
Needle Leaf Java Fern
Crypt Willisii
FAUNA
Ivanacara Adoketa
Otocinclus
The Anubias is the main feature of this tank, however I do have some Needle Leaf Java Fern plantlets sitting behind the goldvine, however as they are quite small you can't really see them in the photo. I do feel that I need to add something to the branches of the driftwood but I am not sure what would fit in - I have some weeping moss that I could place strategically?
Also I was thinking about what I could do for the foreground, keeping in mind that my Ivanacara Adoketa are pretty destructive and are continually digging pits in the substrate so a carpeting plant would need to be fairly hardy to avoid getting uprooting - I was looking at UG, otherwise my other idea was just to simply use some Ketapang/Indian Almond Leaves?
I will post an update in a week or so once the tank has cycled.
Cheers,
Tucker