Nigel's Forest scape 128L

[Nigel95]

Got bored of my Iwagumi and wanted to do something with spiderwood. Decided to make my own forest.

Specs planted tank aquarium
Tank
80x40x40 cm / 31x15x15" opticwhite 8mm
34 gallon / 128 litre

Lighting
Chihiros rgb 60

Hardscape
Lava rock
Spiderwood

Substrate
ADA Aqua Soil

Shrimp
50+ Red cherry shrimp


Fish
20 green neon tetra

Snails
10 Clithon sp.

Plants
hydrocotyle tripartita
cryptocoryne parva
fissidens fontanus
fissidens mini
solenostoma tetragonum
Bucephalandra (soon before flooding)

Co2
Pressurized CO2 with a diffusor
Co2 checker edge (20 ppm)

Heater
Hydor eth 200 temperature 25 celcius

Filter
Eheim experience 350 (2426) with stainless steel lily pipes

Background
Frosted glass spray

Day 1 Hardscape & DSM
Forest Aquascape - Nature aquarium - Day 1 DSM - YouTube



Day 36
Nature Aquarium - Forest Aquarium - Day 36 - YouTube


Day 60
forest scape 128l day 60 p3 by Nigel H, on Flickr

Day 75
Forest Aquarium Aquascape - Day 75 - YouTube

Day 95
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day 95 forest aquascape by nigel aquascaping by Nigel H, on Flickr

Day 115
Aquascape Nature Aquarium - Aquascaping - Forest Day 115 - YouTube

Tank 80x40x40 cm - 34g / 128L

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Yoghurt method experiment
[/B]Got some fissidens fontanus from someone. Trying out the yoghurt blender method to attach mosses on my lava rocks.

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Attaching moss to the hardscape - Yogurt method

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Waterlogging all pieces hopefully they will not dry completely out during my dry start to attach mosses to hardscape.

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To be more safe to avoid floating spiderwood I zip tied spiderwood pieces to a piece of slate. These will be buried in the substrate. So far it seems promising as pieces sink immediately in a bucket.

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