I am starting a new scape very soon. It will be an iwagumi style 12L (this tank)
It will be a mix of a type II and type III Iwagumi if what I have in my mind comes to fruition. I may break from iwagumi a bit for part of the tank... but won't know until the layout starts I guess. It will have traditional rock hardscape (manten and ohko stone), black aquasoil, and several types of flora and fauna.
This tank will be high light and CO2 injected. I haven't decided yet if I will put autodosers on it. The tank will sit on a glass and stone open style stand, so the less equipment the better. That might mean manual dosing. I am going to put a 74-YA CO2 system on it, with glass inflow/outflow and glass/ceramic CO2 diffuser. It will have an inline heater. So... visible equipment in the tank will be pretty minimal in keeping with the nature aquarium theme.
Currently, my potential plant list is:
Rotala macrandra mini 'type 2'
blyxa japonica
Hemianthus callitrichoides
Sagittaria subulata
Utricularia graminifolia
though I will probably narrow that down some as I move forward. Availability of some of it is going to be an issue. I am open to any ideas on sources for these plants, so if anyone has any leads, by all means, please pass them on. I think I can get them all individually, but the less shipping I have to pay the better . Also open to suggestions of other compact growth interesting plants - would love to get my hands on some more eriocaulon species, but it would have to a domestic source. My experience with having it shipped around the world didn't end well.
The tank will have either CRS or RCS. I haven't decided which yet.
For fish, I am open to ideas. It is a 12L so I think that leaves me a lot of options I am not used to (this is BIG tank for me after all) - but the idea here will be to have the largest school of fish I can keep in the tank to compliment the iwagumi layout. I am thinking boraras brigittae or something similar could be cool - I could probably get 20 of them in the tank fairly safely I think, especially since it will be heavily planted, it's long, and the filter will be rated for 60 gallons . My experience with these fish has been great - really neat nanos. Again, if anyone has ideas here, I am open to it... but schooling is the key.
The tank should be here by early next week... so I will update on progress as the build comes together.
It will be a mix of a type II and type III Iwagumi if what I have in my mind comes to fruition. I may break from iwagumi a bit for part of the tank... but won't know until the layout starts I guess. It will have traditional rock hardscape (manten and ohko stone), black aquasoil, and several types of flora and fauna.
This tank will be high light and CO2 injected. I haven't decided yet if I will put autodosers on it. The tank will sit on a glass and stone open style stand, so the less equipment the better. That might mean manual dosing. I am going to put a 74-YA CO2 system on it, with glass inflow/outflow and glass/ceramic CO2 diffuser. It will have an inline heater. So... visible equipment in the tank will be pretty minimal in keeping with the nature aquarium theme.
Currently, my potential plant list is:
Rotala macrandra mini 'type 2'
blyxa japonica
Hemianthus callitrichoides
Sagittaria subulata
Utricularia graminifolia
though I will probably narrow that down some as I move forward. Availability of some of it is going to be an issue. I am open to any ideas on sources for these plants, so if anyone has any leads, by all means, please pass them on. I think I can get them all individually, but the less shipping I have to pay the better . Also open to suggestions of other compact growth interesting plants - would love to get my hands on some more eriocaulon species, but it would have to a domestic source. My experience with having it shipped around the world didn't end well.
The tank will have either CRS or RCS. I haven't decided which yet.
For fish, I am open to ideas. It is a 12L so I think that leaves me a lot of options I am not used to (this is BIG tank for me after all) - but the idea here will be to have the largest school of fish I can keep in the tank to compliment the iwagumi layout. I am thinking boraras brigittae or something similar could be cool - I could probably get 20 of them in the tank fairly safely I think, especially since it will be heavily planted, it's long, and the filter will be rated for 60 gallons . My experience with these fish has been great - really neat nanos. Again, if anyone has ideas here, I am open to it... but schooling is the key.
The tank should be here by early next week... so I will update on progress as the build comes together.