[EvolutionZ]

hi guys, decided to start a new thread since there is a rescape in plants. yes, i pretty much love the wood shape thats why i decided to only play around with the plants for another "feel".

i'll start with the tank specs first :

Tank size : 60x30x36 Oceanfree tank.

Lighting : kenis 36watt PL.

Substrate : 12kg of GeX red packing.

Temperature : most of the time 26C.

Flora : Spiky moss, Narrow leaf java fern, Anubias 'nana', Nana 'petite', Taiwan moss, E.tenellus, Java fern "philliphine", us fissiden and bolbitis.

Fauna : Crystal red shrimp, Cherry shrimps and Nitrite snails.

well, i guess i'll talk less..

lets look back 44 days back to this tank when its 4 days old.

latest picture.. did some changes of plants here and there.. the main focal wood top area's moss have been removed because that area has been infested with green hair algae and BBA due to being too close up with the lighting..

the plan now would be 2 other type of moss to replace the curren spiky lawn once the spiky moss over grown, it will be either taiwan moss or us fissiden, thats why i have both moss in this tank now for a "test"

3 lava rocks tied with us fissiden.

Nana petite have been growing very well here, just some spotted algae on some leaves.. the snails did'nt clear them though..

replaced the 2 pots of nana in another area with philliphine java fern..

trimmed the narrow leaf to a shorter length because it was growing too tall that it was like the spiky moss, too close to the lighting and thus, invaded by lots of bba.. shifted them to the side too.. for more room for the E.tenellus for the back area.

E.tenellus, still in emmersed form.. another test plant. but not for this tank, doubt i would bomb this tank with E.tenellus!

as usual.. shrimps gathering outside their homes!

had tied some taiwan moss to some charcoal bamboo.. they love it!

Comments please.

Thanks for viewing.

 

[EvolutionZ]

carlos, yes you should do it! moss soften your driftwood in your scape.. but trimming is needed to keep it short for my scape.. if not the wood shape will be off..

krisw, thanks bro, i made a total of 5 bamboo charcoal home for them.. meanwhile the charcoal can also abosrb any toxics or ammonia etc etc.. the shrimps love to hang out there..

 

[EvolutionZ]

thanks ricky..

 

[EvolutionZ]

benderisawesome, my area is Singapore.. bamboo charcoal is easily available in most popular LFS in singapore, not sure about your country though

chagovatoloco, thanks, everytime im stress up or upset on something, simply looking at the shrimps and the tank will certainly calm me down.

 

[EvolutionZ]

hi guys, it has been around 2 months since this tank was set up..
did again some changes to the plants.. now im currently pretty happy with this plant mess..
gave up on crs and decided to get a pair of apistogramma agasizzi 'netz'.. and having 20 rasbora espei as dithers.

philiphines fern..

nanas..

small amount of needle leaf Java fern is in the middle now.. while a pretty big bunch of bolbitis is at the back.. the whole back ground is planted with E.tenellus. they are spreeding well..

i love schooling rasboras! need to feed more bloodworm to get them redder i guess..

enjoy!

 

[EvolutionZ]

thanks bro

 

[EvolutionZ]

different angel view.(the airstone with airpump attatch to it was added recently, scared my fishes not enough oxygen)

 

[EvolutionZ]

im playing safe.. and since my top tier requires air pump.. and my air pump have 2 outlets.. no harm having an extra airstone in tank right? haha