•exosket's 30 gallon•

[exosket]

New journal due to a re-scape!

Before:

Last night, I thought i'd rearrange the rocks around the tree a bit so I removed all the plants and fish...which turned into seeing what it would look like without the tree and 8 hours later, I ended up with this!

After:
Hardscape with only rocks


Planting...


riccia stones...


the only inhabitant for now, mr. ramshorn snail!


The 30 gallon next to the 15 gallon.


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Tank - 30 US gallons - 36"x16.75"x12.25".
•Pressurized 10lb w/ milwaukee regulator @3bps
•T5 78watts
• Aquaclear 70 filter
•Rena SmartHeater 150 W

Fish
•1 ramshorn snail =P

Plants
•Hemianthus Callitrichoides
•Eleocharis parvula
•Riccia fluitans


Let me know what you think!

[Steven Chong]

Wow, I can hardly believe the two scapes were done by the same person! O.o

Excellent job-- congrats! And it looks like this Iwagumi is going to look great.

[exosket]

Originally Posted by Steven Chong

Wow, I can hardly believe the two scapes were done by the same person! O.o

Excellent job-- congrats! And it looks like this Iwagumi is going to look great.

Wow! haha..thanks a lot! You made me smile. I'm glad my layout skills have improved that much. I am also very happy with this result...I just hope everything will grow.

[Supercoley1]

Just a little observation on the rocks. All the ones on the left seem to pointing right and the ones on the right pointing left.

I would add another rock to the right because they look a little isolated. Then with the left side try to get a couple of the rocks not to be as right pointed to make it look a little more 'natural'.

Always hard to envisage how they will look after the plants have grown in though

The rocks look really good though

AC

[Jur4ik]

Lol, fighting this long against the fungus and finaly rescaped the tank, haha
However - the result is amazing, congratulation! Your rocks are realy cool, mini landscape?

[exosket]

Originally Posted by Supercoley1

Just a little observation on the rocks. All the ones on the left seem to pointing right and the ones on the right pointing left.

I would add another rock to the right because they look a little isolated. Then with the left side try to get a couple of the rocks not to be as right pointed to make it look a little more 'natural'.

Always hard to envisage how they will look after the plants have grown in though

The rocks look really good though

AC

The rocks on the right aren't shaped too nicely..so I did my best with those. I wish I had a few more rocks so I could change that side a bit, but I'm hoping they will get covered a lot once I put more riccia around them. Thanks for the observation though, it's nice to have someone's view besides my own. I will take your opinion into consideration when I have a big "rock make-over."

[exosket]

Originally Posted by Jur4ik

Lol, fighting this long against the fungus and finaly rescaped the tank, haha
However - the result is amazing, congratulation! Your rocks are realy cool, mini landscape?

hahaha! I know! Well, now some of the fungus tree is in my small tank. I boiled the pieces before they went in and if it comes back again, the grapevine will go in the garbage!

Thanks for the kind words.

[exosket]

Do I have enough light to grow HC, riccia, dwarf hairgrass? I have T5- 78 watts total. Is this enough? :/

[Jur4ik]

Well, I´m not a pro about lightning - but, just give it a try
how deep is your tank?

[exosket]

it's around 16" deep...I used this light in the other tank and nothing seemed to really grow all that well :/

[Jur4ik]

well with this lightning you have "only" 2.6 wpg - this is not as much as you need to call it high tech - In my tank I have 4,7 wpg but this is a little overkill! also my tank is 20" deep, so I need the power
However, I would increase your lightning, but wait for more opinions of "lightning gurus"

[redcherryco2]

I love them. look so great. =]=] Great work

[Shadow]

Originally Posted by exosket

Do I have enough light to grow HC, riccia, dwarf hairgrass? I have T5- 78 watts total. Is this enough? :/

Typically it should be enough for them to grow, but HC might grow tall and riccia may not bublle. Do you have individual reflector on your light set?

[exosket]

I have been doing a lot of research about what fish i'd like to have in my scape and these are my choices~


iriatherina werneri
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micropoecilia minima
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boraras micros
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paracheirodon simulans
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I'd like to use 2 of these in my aquascape and I want one of them to be a very small species.
Have any of you ever had these fish in your tank? Does anyone else have any other suggestions?

[Think_Easy]

It looks nice! Great Job!
Rasbora galaxy is a nice small fish to !

[Shadow]

that look like Boraras brigitae, Boraras micros suppose to be transparent but I'm not the expert so I can be wrong

P.S. photo taken from AquaticQuotient

[tirtha1979]

Great rock scape. But I would love to see some stems at left back corner to break the monotony.

And I will suggest you to increase the lights. Doubling it up will be the best but minimum target for 100Watt T5HO.

All the best.

[Supercoley1]

Personally I think with 78W of T5 you have more than enough for the plants you have and would be fine for carpeting!!!

AC

[dg2606]

I like red fish with driftwood setups. They seem to go hand and hand.

And using cardinals on the bigger one with the mountain scape would look good also

[tirtha1979]

Originally Posted by Supercoley1

Personally I think with 78W of T5 you have more than enough for the plants you have and would be fine for carpeting!!!

AC

AC .... don't you think 78W (2.6WPG) for a 30G tank will be on lowerside? I would not mind having this WPG in a 100G tank but for a smaller tank I think we should go bit higher.