Crepe
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Okay it's time for another Rescape of my 20GH. Let's begin with the Tank specs:
DiY Co2 (appx 3litres of yeast mix) with home made inline diffuser.
20g High: 24x12x18 inches
Cascade 500 Canister filter
48 watts T5HO 6700k lights
I'm sort of getting the hang of this aquascaping thing and It's time to narrow down my species:
Didiplis diandra
Eleocharis Sp (still emersed growing them to find out what I really have)
Marsilea Minuta ( I'm really bad with FG plants and this plant is turning out to be a good plant for me haha)
Rotala Macranda "magenta" var narrow leaf
Hemianthus Micranthemoides
and Hydrocotyle Verticillata (great midground, took a longggg time to identify the plant from a picture in a 6 year old book I have)
Also retaining some of the older plants not for scape reasons but because I feed cuttings to my koi to get some fiber in their diet. Also trying to figure out a way to shoe horn my L. Glandulosa in somewhere. I just love the feeling of keeping difficult plants alive. Lets you know your tank is going well.
A few comments: The thing I loathe about the 20 high is it's height. I got it cheap but now that i'm doing planted tanks figuring out ways to fill the vertical space is proving a challenge. Trying to get a focus to keep the viewer's eyes from wandering upwards into nothingness becomes a problem. The strategy for this layout will be to make the height less significant with a gradual progression of increasing height front to back, from the M. minuta, a rock, the H. Vert. and then the Rotala Macranda.
ANYWAYS here's the new planned layout:
Plants come in in a few days.
DiY Co2 (appx 3litres of yeast mix) with home made inline diffuser.
20g High: 24x12x18 inches
Cascade 500 Canister filter
48 watts T5HO 6700k lights
I'm sort of getting the hang of this aquascaping thing and It's time to narrow down my species:
Didiplis diandra
Eleocharis Sp (still emersed growing them to find out what I really have)
Marsilea Minuta ( I'm really bad with FG plants and this plant is turning out to be a good plant for me haha)
Rotala Macranda "magenta" var narrow leaf
Hemianthus Micranthemoides
and Hydrocotyle Verticillata (great midground, took a longggg time to identify the plant from a picture in a 6 year old book I have)
Also retaining some of the older plants not for scape reasons but because I feed cuttings to my koi to get some fiber in their diet. Also trying to figure out a way to shoe horn my L. Glandulosa in somewhere. I just love the feeling of keeping difficult plants alive. Lets you know your tank is going well.
A few comments: The thing I loathe about the 20 high is it's height. I got it cheap but now that i'm doing planted tanks figuring out ways to fill the vertical space is proving a challenge. Trying to get a focus to keep the viewer's eyes from wandering upwards into nothingness becomes a problem. The strategy for this layout will be to make the height less significant with a gradual progression of increasing height front to back, from the M. minuta, a rock, the H. Vert. and then the Rotala Macranda.
ANYWAYS here's the new planned layout:
Plants come in in a few days.