Navarro

Step 1 these are all the tools I used for the layout.


Step 2 75 gallon cherry combo and canopy by oceanic


Step 3 5 Lb Co2 bottle, regulator and aquamedic in-line reactor, 2080 Professional III by EHEIM and 65 watts X 4 PC by Coralife (Retrofit) Manzanita driftwood and Texas fossil rock.


Step 4 a division is created to separate the two substrates from mixing.


Step 5 Bacter 100 Clear super and Tourmaline BC are added followed by power sand and Amazonia in the back and white quartz sand in the front.

Step 6 the Layout is done fast using a simple combination of rocks and driftwood.










Step 7 Moss, Anubias, Java fern and bolbitis rhizomes are placed in position.




Step 8 Cryptocorines, Cypherus, Isoetes, Blyxa and ranunculus are planted in the back. Water is added and done!




Thank you for all the NASH members who show up to help me do the installation just so I could concentrate on the planting.

Thank you guy's!

STAANA

You're very welcome, Luis! It's always a pleasure to help you out.
How's the tank doing?

Hawaiian

Very NICE Luis. I like your helper in one of the pics there. I think its Thanh right. I was invited to see you set up a tank by Dan, Rudy and Thanh. I really wish I could have made it but our stay was only for a week.

I am working to setup my 72 bowfront also. I got some Manzanita from Dan through Rudy. Now saving some money to get the lights and an eheim canister filter.

Keep the updates coming.

Mahalo, Ike

Jdinh04

Luis, the tank looks very nice, great combination of rocks, manzanita wood and a nice selection of plants. Keep it up, can't wait to see what it looks like when everything grows.

Hawaiian

My bad, hey Rudy see that your in a couple of the pics also.

Hey Bradda, Mahalo for the Manzanita.

Ike

Cichlid Junkie

Nice tank. Thanks for the pictures. It gives a newbie like me a good step by step on how to get started!

dmartin72

Looks great. How about an update!

Rek

fantastic

hir0

very nice layout. I love the way this tank is looking.

side note:
about the crop of the photo - I'm not sure if you have access to adobe photoshop or not... but here's something you can try. when you click on the crop tool, along the top a selection called perspective will appear. if you click this box, then you can drag each 4 corner crop point to the corners and it will crop the photo and fix the perspective so that the bottom edges aren't leaning in the way they are.

Navarro

Thank you! this tank is in my office, and it has been a reall challenge due to the fact that the plants grow much slower than what I am used to work with.
My photography is really bad, but I wll ask a friend to take a couple pictures for me. The tank is by no means ready there are many Cryptocorines that are yet to show their best, and is not until then that the composition will make sense.
Since I started this layout every single tank in my office has been changed with slow growing plants and finally I have a little more time. Working with stem plants is indeed just more work.