Juwel Rio 400 ( 400l / 50g ) - Journals

wearsbunnyslippers · 03-26-2009, 10:17 AM

after my last tank sprang a leak, i have been pretty quiet, but i have been busy putting a new tank together

specs:

Juwel Rio 400
151 x 51 x 62 cm
400l / 100g
flourite
pressurized co2
6 x 54w t5's

EI dosing

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hooha · 03-26-2009, 09:44 PM

sorry to hear about your other tank.....you sure did get a nice scape back quickly in your new tank though!

wearsbunnyslippers · 03-27-2009, 05:10 AM

thanks hooha

i had most of the plants already, they just had to grow and propagate...

hopefully the tennellus will carpet quickly, and i just got some more giant hygro to replace the ceratopteris on the right.

ncy · 03-27-2009, 11:16 AM

Very colorful! It was interesting to see the plant growth timeline.

wearsbunnyslippers · 03-29-2009, 10:36 AM

yeah, the plants have filled in pretty quick...

i got some myriophyllum tuberculatum, to add in somewhere once it has grown a bit, i just got a tiny cutting, so hopefully it will be even more colorful soon...

wearsbunnyslippers · 03-30-2009, 01:53 AM

i just got some glosso too, and was thinking of splitting the tenellus in the front to the right and left and putting glosso in the middle, what do you think?

something like this:

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X's being crypts on the left and parviflorus on the right
x's being the tenellus
.'s being the glosso

wearsbunnyslippers · 04-01-2009, 05:12 AM

i should have been more ruthless with the pruning...

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wearsbunnyslippers · 04-06-2009, 11:03 AM

new pics...

things are growing in nicely after the trim, but it is looking like it is time for a trim again

i added some lobelia, and got some eustris stellata

i joined a couple of dutch forums, and they were absolutely horrified with the rocks, but i also had some positive comments so for now they are still staying. i have some new plants as well, but they are still tiny, if i can grow them and propogate them, i might use them in place of the rocks...

front - click for larger:

this is what the stellatus looked like when i got it - pretty sickly

this is what it looks like now - hopefully it is going to grow from strength to strength - i hope it makes the transition from emmersed to immersed ok

i have some glosso, hc and micranthum umbrosum floating

tiny cutting of rotala wallichii

EQUINOX · 04-08-2009, 04:26 AM

Beautiful!!
I think the stones give the tank a great look!

Do you replant the cuttings?

thanks.

wearsbunnyslippers · 04-08-2009, 07:22 AM

@equinox - when i was going through the growth phase, i was topping and replanting, but the last couple of trims i have given away the trimmings...