Cheers guys, while all the uk chaps have fun at the spent their time at the aquatics live, I've been the whole day in a shop near my place (good old germany :-p) scaping a Dennerle 60L cube as a display tank giving the visitors a lecture on aquascaping. It was a tough job, luckily a friend of mine helped me to prepare the plants while I was talking to the crowd, giving them introduction into high tech planted aquarium hobby, manny of them have seen aquasoil for the first time in their live.. you know what means ... lots to explain :-" Anyway here is the tech spec and and plant list: Dennerle 60L cube JBL e700 Filter DIY LED lighting fixture with 16watt (high power LED) No heater, room temperature is like 25°C ADA Aquasoil 9L bag Cosmetic sand sort of round pebbles Driftwood Anubias Nana Petite C.Wendtii brown C.Tropica C.Wendtii green Taiwan Moss Pogostemon Erecus Rotala Rotundifolia I'll update this thread as I go there again, but I don't think this tank will last for too long ... once it is all settled and stable, they will quote a price and it will be sold within a few days and than a new one will be needed or even before so there is always one that settles and one that is for sale. Sorry pics are made with iPhone :-" Hope you'll spot a new planting technique I have used!?
they are regular, but I cut off all the leafs before planting. This will lead to a much smaller and compact growth. Thanks Stevo
How did you do that?!!!! Amazing man, absolutely stunning. Ow did you get the moss to grow on the branches and is that a single piece of wood? Very complex !
Thanks Johnny I can't tell if it was a single piece of wood, but red moor wood is very popular and available in most shops, so you might be lucky and find one single piece that branchy. You can easily attach moss to driftwood with cotton line. Moss will attach to the wood by it self and the cotton will dissolve after a while.
I attached riccia to Sumatra and it grew out like laterally towards the light rather than around it, very frustrating.
Riccia will never attach by itself and upward growth is typical for Riccia. Use java moss or similar to achieve that "wrapping" style
Thanks man! Hoping to change my fluval edge for a 30l dennerle very soon. I want to grow the tank before puttin livestock in. What's the cling film and light method? Does it work and accelerate growth? Fr things like moss and HC, it's hard to scape when there is water in. Also if I move all the Ada, will that mean a huge spike in ammonia again?
DSM = Dry Start Method scape the tank without water, keep substrate moisture and cover the tank with cling film, give it a lot of light and refresh the air inside the tank once per day. This is often used to let moss attach to stones or wood without moss cotton or similar or to get the ground covered by carpet plants faster. Later you flood the tank and hope that everything goes well yes it kinda accelerate the growth, but this method doesn't work with all plants and transition from emerged to submerged is sometimes tricky. look into numerous journal here at ASW and you will see 99% do plant the tank without water and fill it afterwards. By this I don't mean the DSM method, simply regular aquascaping. If this happens - do some massive water changes, nothing easier than this in a small tank and you'll be fine again. however, check water parameters before introducing fish and shrimp
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