kakkoii

I want those rocks!!!!!!!! where did you get them?????

dirrtybirdy

very very nice tank

gotcheaprice

Oh wow, great tank! That's the 60P right? I'm gonna start one soon and this was actually what I was hoping to do! I always liked either the foresty areas or mountains and if I could create something close, I would be amazed xD

And yeah, where did you get those rocks how much did you get?

lonepeace

Vert nice....

Those rocks really made the scape strong~~~

rashev

Successful aquascape!

zig

Hey everyone sorry with the late updates, I cant believe there are so many replies!!

Hi blue_Dolphinvn, HC is pretty easy for me anyway, temp was about 18 degrees, for fertiliser I dosed 2ml of Tropica plant nutrition+ daily along with 1BPS CO2, so dosing would have been a little bit lean. AFAIK each 5ml dose of Tropica plant nutrition+ adds about 6ppm NO3 and about .04ppm PO4, so you would need to work that out lighting was 5WPG to try and keep the HC as compact as I could.

Kakkoii, the rocks I picked up online from a couple of different sources here in Europe

http://www.aquaessentials.co.uk/inde...oducts_id=1437

http://www.aquaristic.net/shop.php/s...%20per%20Kilo/

In the US, Im pretty sure Aquarium Design Group and Aqua Forest Aquarium supply them, both are sponsors on this site, so check those guys out in the sponsors section.

I will add that I used a hammer and chisel if none of the rocks that I had in my possession fitted my idea for the scape, so I would break some until they did

gotcheaprice, the tank is 60x30x30, a 60P would be 60x30x36, so a bit taller than this one.

And many thanks to everyone else that has replied to this thread, I very much appreciate it

I only have one new picture for this layout of the lampeye killifish. The light that I use to photograph this tank is still not fixed



On a different note entirely

Heres a couple of pictures of an Iwagumi layout that was in this tank just immediately before I did the mountainscape aquascape.

Its just a very simple 5 stone Iwagumi layout mainly emphasising the rocks, I was trying to envisage a rock outcrop that you may find along a beach area where the shore meets the greener landscape.

Plants are HC and Eleocharis parvula. The spec is the same as this tank otherwise.

The fish in this scape are young White cloud mountain minnows, they now live happily in a larger tank that I have.

This is how this one started out, I changed a couple of rocks after this shot but this was the initial idea which didn't really change very much, I wanted the emphasis on the rock layout more than anything else because I thought it was a strong visual.







Just thought I would post it up here anyway.

Thanks again to everyone

Fiki

Zig, I'm speechless. Your setup is definitely the one of my favorites. Awesome!!!

Thanks for sharing.

Regards,


Filip

andrew__

Amazing!

gotcheaprice

Haha, wow, you must've used A LOT of rocks to create that D: How much kgs/lbs did you buy exactly though? It seems like it'd be like 2x 3x tanks your size would normally use xD

zig

Thanks guys!

gotcheaprice I'd say I have about 20-25kgs of rocks in total, so not that many really, they all fit in a large box that I can carry (just about) I'm buying these without seeing them over the internet so that's why I have more than you would normally buy if you could see them in person. Some of the pieces are poor though, that's the thing about buying rocks this way, half of the rocks you receive are junk. I couldn't ever see myself using some of them so that's why I started breaking them up, it works good, I would recommend it for any junk seiryu rocks in your collection, just smash them up and see what you get

In the mountainscape tank I would guess there is about 15kg of rock used, in the second tank that I posted some of those rocks are used in the mountainscape aquascape as well.

Somebody posted this up on planted tank before so I didn't feel so bad about having that many rocks in the tank.

From YouTube "How many rocks can I put in my tank"

YouTube - Tempered Glass Aquarium