My First Planted
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Good on ya
LD,
Great work! It took me a while, but I just breezed through all 33 pages of this post. The composition and aesthetics of your tanks is amazing, and the fish are always complimentary.
I'm just now starting my own planted tank, albeit on a much smaller scale and lower tech for now. Couple quick questions. Do you have a routine for introducing new plants to the aquarium (i.e. washing them in warm water or anything)? Also I love the tree like affect created by growing plants on the redmoor wood. What plants would you recommend for that? Thanks, keep up the good work.
Nic
LD,
Great work! It took me a while, but I just breezed through all 33 pages of this post. The composition and aesthetics of your tanks is amazing, and the fish are always complimentary.
I'm just now starting my own planted tank, albeit on a much smaller scale and lower tech for now. Couple quick questions. Do you have a routine for introducing new plants to the aquarium (i.e. washing them in warm water or anything)? Also I love the tree like affect created by growing plants on the redmoor wood. What plants would you recommend for that? Thanks, keep up the good work.
Nic
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Hi "new" glad you enjoyed the journal, I have enjoyed my journey so far also, I just need to step it up a notch and start from scratch again, think I have taken this tank as far as it will ever go. I am now considering going low tech also, just too busy to keep up with water changes and pruning 
New plants I just usually wash them to try and remove snail eggs if, but most of the time I just chuck them straight into the tank. If you have only fish then its not usually a problem, but if you have shrimp you have to be more careful, some plants from the far east are dipped in some chemicals that can be fatal to invertebrates.
The plants that work well on wood and usually mosses, the plant you see on the branch that sticks into the middle is Fissidens Fontanus.
Cheers
Paulo
New plants I just usually wash them to try and remove snail eggs if, but most of the time I just chuck them straight into the tank. If you have only fish then its not usually a problem, but if you have shrimp you have to be more careful, some plants from the far east are dipped in some chemicals that can be fatal to invertebrates.
The plants that work well on wood and usually mosses, the plant you see on the branch that sticks into the middle is Fissidens Fontanus.
Cheers
Paulo
Was sent a few PMs regarding what happened to this tank, this tank is still going but not with the same scape, it was rescaped in early 2011!
Still went on for a little while:
But after a heater incident that basically boiled the whole contents of the tank, I had no choice but to start again, and now don't run any heaters on any tanks anymore!!
I then started a Iwagumi in this tank, here it is on day 1:
And 6 weeks later it looked like this:
Month later:
Video: http://vimeo.com/23820732
And a couple of weeks more:
The rocks turned a very light colour so I stopped cleaning them and gave it a more natural feel:
Couple weeks later:
Due to lack of time and work taking over the tank started suffering:
And eventually the HC had to go:
And slowly started turning into something else:
And now looks more like a Jungle than a Iwagumi
Not sure what is going to happen next as my scapes tend to merge from one thing into another! Might get a new tank soon and start something else long term
Thanks for looking
More info can be found here: http://www.ukaps.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=14998 (please remove is not permitted to post links to other forums)
Still went on for a little while:
But after a heater incident that basically boiled the whole contents of the tank, I had no choice but to start again, and now don't run any heaters on any tanks anymore!!
I then started a Iwagumi in this tank, here it is on day 1:
And 6 weeks later it looked like this:
Month later:
Video: http://vimeo.com/23820732
And a couple of weeks more:
The rocks turned a very light colour so I stopped cleaning them and gave it a more natural feel:
Couple weeks later:
Due to lack of time and work taking over the tank started suffering:
And eventually the HC had to go:
And slowly started turning into something else:
And now looks more like a Jungle than a Iwagumi
Not sure what is going to happen next as my scapes tend to merge from one thing into another! Might get a new tank soon and start something else long term
Thanks for looking
More info can be found here: http://www.ukaps.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=14998 (please remove is not permitted to post links to other forums)
Many thanks and glad you enjoyed the journalwow... Just read the large majority of this 33 page thread. What a journey! Looks like you have become the master of the planted aquarium LondonDragon! Love it
I think growing plants is the easy part, aquascaping is the more tricky side of the hobby 
