My First Planted

[LondonDragon]

Absolutely amazing Dragon, seriousy impressed . PS. What's the perforated golfball looking thing on the left in ome of the pic's ?

Many thanks Its my CO2 diffusor from Hydor, its a mini powerhead with a CO2 in line and breaks the CO2 bubbles into tiny ones, helps spread them in the tank and puts no pressure in the CO2 tubbing therefore avoiding leaks.

Come on, you gotta give us updates after 20 days.

Hehe ok ok here a small video: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=GccNL4ZcA80

Tanks its not looking too great at the moment, had problems with one ballast then my CO2 run out, so its recovering now.

 

[Chrisinator]

I'm dying to make another moss wall but mine didn't succeed! Lovin' yours!

 

[LondonDragon]

I'm dying to make another moss wall but mine didn't succeed! Lovin' yours!

Wall is no more was way too much work to keep it nice and clean.

 

[pigeonkeeper]

LOVE THE BETTA!!

 

[brendyb123]

know alot of people have praised and rightfully so but here goes mine....someone mentioned previously that your tank seems too good and well maintained for this to be your first planted tank-i must say you really have inspired me. I've recently purchased a Vision 260 which i'd love to heavily plant but on looking into it a bit (actually alot!) was quite put off by other peoples failed attempts and amount of work it will need. Have just sat here and looked through all 29 pages of your 'journey' and, really, i'm inspired. First thing tomorrow I am going to tour my 5 LFS searching for the perfect plants to start mine and will probably spend all weekend 'playing'. Don't be surprised if you get many questions fired at you as a result!! Keep it up

 

[LondonDragon]

know alot of people have praised and rightfully so but here goes mine....someone mentioned previously that your tank seems too good and well maintained for this to be your first planted tank-i must say you really have inspired me. I've recently purchased a Vision 260 which i'd love to heavily plant but on looking into it a bit (actually alot!) was quite put off by other peoples failed attempts and amount of work it will need. Have just sat here and looked through all 29 pages of your 'journey' and, really, i'm inspired. First thing tomorrow I am going to tour my 5 LFS searching for the perfect plants to start mine and will probably spend all weekend 'playing'. Don't be surprised if you get many questions fired at you as a result!! Keep it up

Thanks for the reply, it is my first planted tank but I started it two years ago and I have learnt a lot along the way, and its only over the past year or so that I have been achieving good results with the plants now that I have learned the balance between light, CO2, ferts and flow.

I will PM you a link of a site with lots of info on planted tanks in the UK and then you can read some of the info there and make sure you have all the right equipment before you splash the cash on plants and only to see them die.

Look forward to seeing your tank and any questions do feel free to ask.

This tank is now on hold just keeping some plants alive until I get my new scape sorted out.

 

[LondonDragon]

Just a quick update on this tank, I am putting my rescape on hold so now I am testing a few things, I am running this pretty high light now and high CO2 and also the main reason for keeping it going full planted is to test the auto dosing system which has been running 3 weeks now, during this period I haven't dosed EasyCarbo at all, its working great.

Some photos of what the tank looks like at present:

Thanks for looking

 

[jm1212]

amazing job!

i wish i could plant a tank like that

 

[ChrisK]

A very nice setup

 

[LondonDragon]

Thanks guys