Yo-han

As on request I'll start a journal of my 400L (almost 100 gallon I believe) planted tank. After coming from Tanganyika cichlids I started this aquarium almost 2 years ago. Faced some serious challenges but think I got it figured out more or less now (mostly learning it the hard way).

Let's start chronological with the first scape. This started out as a planted iwagumi with manacapuru angelfish in it. The rocks were not made for a planted tank and my KH was sky high although I did 50% waterchanges 2 times a week with pure R/O water:


Growth:


After this algae strikes and the rocks were replaced with wood:

Some detail pics:
Glass lily pipes (after two broken inlets I replaced them with custom made stainless steel):

Young angelfish, the heavy feeding to raise them up nice was also a factor in the algae growth:

blue thumb

Nice tank. Angels look kinda like mine. My Angels keep pulling up plants so I fed them alot yesterday so they would not keep hunting for food. I overfed them so much this morning they were so bloated they could not swim upright! LOL But sad thing is I had 2 of them die from over eating

Yo-han

Haha, I see what you mean!

Here a little update with pictures from after I made the aquarium more angelfish friendly. Rocks are replaced with wood


Tannins everywhere:

Glass lily pipe (RIP) with plactic mesh around it temporarily:

Everything growing in, including the angelfish:


Pictures from above:


With 4 female angelfish and 2 male angelfish I had eggs every week (I also ended up with more otocinclus than I bought):

Unclear foto but lots of freshly hatched fry:


Found this beautiful plant during a canoe trip in Holland:


It had beautiful flowers reaching 3 feet above the tank and 1,5 feet wide! (Can't find a picture...)

More pictures for the angelfish lovers:




The angelfish were sold after this picture. I thought the aquarium was too small for these fish and a well know breeder in the Netherlands is now breeding with them. I also ripped apart the whole aquuscape and made a new one (pictures will follow!!)

mudboots

Very beautiful; I look forward to the new scape. What was the water movement like in this set up, as far as gph of filtration and overall flow?

Yo-han

I've a Eheim 2080 with 400 gph but seriously reduces flow because of an external heater, co2 reactor and UV unit. So in the last setup I used a 800 gph streamer during the time I've over 2wpg.

Yo-han

Here are some pictures from my most recent setup, I started selling most of the plants already and after my holiday I'll do a complete makeover:



Sunset on my aquarium:

New fish added (Paracheirodon simulans, Trigonostigma espei and not visible on the photo Hyphessobrycon herbertaxelrodi):

This shrimp was between the japonica shrimps I bought, not sure which specie it is:

HC grows all over the sand, attaches better than on the substrate (don't look at all the substrate on the sand):

After a clean up:




If there are people with a 3D monitor, I've got 3D pictures and movies as well

Yo-han

Forgot to post a picture of the matured layout:


Hope you like it...

Michael

Beautiful!

MsNeoShrimp

Wow. I enjoyed looking at how many different ways you have changed it around. Lots of effort I can imagine for tank this size. Looks beautiful everytime

Yo-han

Thanks for the nice comments, Im redoing the tank'again after my holiday next week. Already tried some setups with the wood and stones and collected all but two plants for the new setup. Also I already sold more than half of my plants to make room for the new plants. I'll see if I can upload a drawing of what it is going to be like (hopefully)...