Mko

looks good can't wait to see it with the moss

beautiful.

Had it once in my 15 gallon. Nuked it with EM with great success as well. It was fully stocked when I did it. Had an airstone in the tank also to add more O2

any pictures of it? how industrial is too industrial?

the tank is looking AMAZING mearco!!!....do you know who this is?

thanks talal

Nice choice on the rummynose tetras. one of my fav schooling fish by far. I cant wait to see what your 30 will look like. this tank looks stellar so far. Your scapes are aleays so interesting. you will have to snap some pics of your rotala.

Hahaha thanks amy, can always count on you to drop by on my threads haha. I'm so excited for uni to be over so that I can go full time into aquascaping again. The 30 just keeps staring at me and begging me to scape it. I can't wait. Rummy Nose Tetras are soo awesome! I can't wait to get them nice and brightly colored up. Im really excited for my hydrocotyle and java fern to continue to grow. Hopefully I can bring the java moss back to life again too. I shall shoot pictures of my rotala soon. Currently working on a video for this tank to showcase the schooling rummy noses =D thanks for dropping by again.

Mirko

They're looking great! Exactly what type of penny wort is that? They're taller than the ones I have. Also, how did you get them positioned like that? Did you tie some stems to something and let them grow in a bundle? Them and the rest of the plants look beautiful

Thanks!

It's called hydrocotyle sibthorpioides and i love it. you tie a mass of them into a bundle then attached it to a small piece of drift wood then I just let them grow out that way.

great looking set up!

thanks!

just some updated shots of my two tanks

colors are faded because I took these pictures at night when they were already resting

took out some guppies left only the males. Then I bought a school of 10 rummy nose tetras that I will use for my 30 gallon later on. I just got them so I could color them up ahead of time.

its a good idea to leave to have that dry start the microsword and moss will greatly benefit the extra Co2 and you won't have to worry about algae. Just don't forget to keep the humidity up. Good luck. I'll be following this journal =)

haha nice! did you buy those plants off me?

this seems just fine. I plan a similar stocking regime in my future 30 gallon with rummynose tetras and odessa barbs

haha thanks

These are shots from my very first planted tank. A 7.2 gallon custom starphire glass nano tank just had fun looking back and seeing how far i've gotten.

Day 1

Couple days later

Rotala

was a fun little tank to have. Still have the nano tank but it is now empty. good lessons learned from it

some shots from tonight. Can't wait for the moss to rebound and start growing again. I think I may just plant down the rotala i have floating and grow it out for selling from this tank. I still have a month before I set up my 30 gallon. I'm excited to get that thing started. I have a lone cardinal in here that doesn't like coming out I think I may purchase some over the weekend to keep him company.

Love that middle rock. I can't wait to use it for the bigger scape later on

yea these are great for water movement. I have one as a powerhead in my 15 gallon. I also used it as a co2 diffuser once before i got my glass diffuser

Hey search "lunch time surprise" it's a recent thread. You'll probably be able to get the info you need on the corys.

Thanks for the heads up sierra really appreciate it =)

oh man, Congrats! . I am currently looking for this cory species where did you buy them? congrats on the spawning

thanks =D

Video update using a different camera. Its just a camerat test for this video but you can still see some pretty good shots of the tank

e tenellus? if you can find a way to prevent it from growing and mixing in with the hairgrass carpet it would look sharp. It would give a taller darker grass look to stay with the iwagumi feel of things. You can also try hemianthus micranthemoides in the background if you can get it thick through constant trimming you can form nice hills of HM in the background. I dunno.. just some ideas

I use co2 =) and excel. Thanks Amy haha yea they went wild

Shots of my 15 gallon planted and my 20 gallon planted soon to be assimilated into one 30 gallon long big high tech project.

here's the 30 gallon as it stands today... a plant selling tank