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ADA Mini: Ambition

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#1 ·
Hi all,

Well vacation is going to be starting so I have been really bored as what to do and I think it's time to reveal some of my projects and start putting them into overhaul as I have been slacking the past couple months.
It's my ADA Mini M rescape after last times rescape.







Practicing with closeups:









At the moment the tank is not looking so good. At least 3-4 kinds of algae exist and the plants I want to grow are not growing.
I plan carry on this tank into the long run I thinking 1-2 years. As of now it's about 4 months old (I've been slowly adding to it) and now I just need help with growing the plants such like Fissidens Fontanus which is located on the ends of the wood pieces.
I can't stress enough on how much I love the fish I received from planet inverts. The CPD's and Exclamation points are great addition and I am surprised on how small they are.

So for this thread I am thinking of ambition as a name for this thread, the past couple weeks I've been lost in thought about things and I hope this tank as well as my others will bring me back into the spirit of the holidays! So that's it for now.

I would like to frequently update this thread instead of every couple months or so with little tidbits of information and interesting things I have a lot more to show but for now I will just give a sneak peek of a future scape that will be going up. Oh and yes this is a 60-F tank scape using seiryu stones. Comments are welcome and I should be showing you guys a lot more in the next two weeks.

 
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Well I decided to change the scape a couple days ago and I think It will become a great shrimp tank but I just need to let it all grow before I start putting in shrimp which will start tearing up the substrate line and make a mess.

Here is some photos from a 2 weeks back that I took and I really feel that I nailed the coloring on my Canon 5D and now that I know the correct setting I will appreciate my photo's more and begin to take more.





Anyways I done a lot of cleaning and replanted the Rotala sp. Green in the back as the old growth completely died and I just cut off the dead ends and planted the new growth pieces hoping this time it will route itself in.

I plan on adding a temporary co2 setup to the tank to hopefully make things healthy again and start a growth pattern between fertilizing with ADA Brightly K and CO2.

Only thing is that I have to contact Orlando at GLA and see if there are caps for my regulator as I bought a custom made 3 way manifold regulator a while back and I don't think you can close the other two manifolds to run just one line to a Co2 diffuser. But I'm sure I could find something to cap off the other two. If not will then I guess it's just going to be a slow process so I can save up for two regular Choice Regulators.

I have notice a "spurt" ( I think I just made that up) of new growth in my Fontinalis in my tank. IMO I really don't know how you guys seem to remember the names of your plants. I searched five minutes just to find the name of the moss in my tank and I know the species but I don't know how to say or spell it, I believe it is Fontinalis Funtilas or something.:mad:
Anyhow it has taken about two months to see and new green growing for this plant so I am excited to see it starting to grow.

Now originally the scape was going to consist of a nice green patch of land with a variety of plants hoping to creative an Awesome contrast between the sand a mosses, but I seem to have gotten a lot of Peacock moss online here from HouseofCards and had enough to put on a bunch of pieces of ADA Riccia Stone and tied the moss down with some string. So instead of the original plan this is going to be my first attempt to an all out green monster of a tank (as most of the time I do iwagami scapes)

Anyways these are the plans and I wouldn't mind here some criticism as I pretty scared as I don't know if I will be able to meet off these plants needs. I will come up with a plant list in the following post as to what in there right now and what I may have to add in the future.

Pictures to come though... I promise.:flick:
 
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Tex Gal- lol I know the driftwood is so awesome. I can't stress enough on how everyone should try the Southeast Asian Driftwood that ADA offers. When I bought the wood I was surprised on the natural look and curves it has to offer. Actually in these photos you can't see all the wood and curves it has to offer. I will have to get a side shot later on showing the backside of the wood as I really couldn't get all of the pleasurable features to show but hey I like the scape.

As for the ADA 60-F tank I am growing the plants emerse for about a month or so now and the tank has already filled in about half way so I am probably going to post it up once I feel the time is right.
 
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