scott the fishman Posted March 17, 2022 Share Posted March 17, 2022 (edited) HELLO FELLOW FISH KEEPERS!! i think i posted that i am going to re scape my heavy planted 75 g tank. So here is the update. I JUST GOT MY 1ST SHIPMENT OF PLANTS FROM THE COOP. FIVE Micranthemum 'Monte Carlo AND 4 Brazilian pennywort along with 32 pounds of more nitride black substrate. the 2nd shipment of plants from the coop will be 7 more Micranthemum 'Monte Carlo. they should be here in babout 3 days. i will remove everything from the tank even some fish that i will take to the LFS. i will drain my tank 90% saving 35 g of tank water to add back. then i will omit some of my plants like the Mayca fluviatilis that has taken over my tank. my plan is have less rocks more plants. i will start by re planting all the tall plants and yes theirs many. in the back of the tank in a uniform way. then the mid plants like my amazon swords plants and melon swords and a few other species of mid plants there are many. for the foreground plants. this is my favorite part so excited! i will plant a carpet of 'Micranthemum 'Monte Carlo across the entire four foot tank as a thick carpet. also will be getting some new show fish. ARE YOU READY? MIGHT WANT TO TAKE A SEAT!!!! GOING TO GET 2 OR 3 Electric Blue Acara. what do you guys think my tank has mostly barbs cherry, rosy, tiger, green tiger , large red tail black shark and a large common pleco 6 loaches zebra and yoyo. how do you think they will all get along? i will start this in on minday the 21st of this month. THANK YOU FOR LETTING ME SHARE🥰 Edited March 27, 2022 by scott the fishman ADD PHOTO 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scott the fishman Posted March 17, 2022 Author Share Posted March 17, 2022 On 3/16/2022 at 6:36 PM, scott the fishman said: HELLO FELLOW FISH KEEPERS!! i think i posted that i am going to re scape my heavy planted 75 g tank. So here is the update. I JUST GOT MY 1ST SHIPMENT OF PLANTS FROM THE COOP. FIVE Micranthemum 'Monte Carlo AND 4 Brazilian pennywort along with 32 pounds of more nitride black substrate. the 2nd shipment of plants from the coop will be 7 more Micranthemum 'Monte Carlo. they should be here in babout 3 days. i will remove everything from the tank even some fish that i will take to the LFS. i will drain my tank 90% saving 35 g of tank water to add back. then i will omit some of my plants like the Mayca fluviatilis that has taken over my tank. my plan is have less rocks more plants. i will start by re planting all the tall plants and yes theirs many. in the back of the tank in a uniform way. then the mid plants like my amazon swords plants and melon swords and a few other species of mid plants there are many. for the foreground plants. this is my favorite part so excited! i will plant a carpet of 'Micranthemum 'Monte Carlo across the entire four foot tank as a thick carpet. also will be getting some new show fish. ARE YOU READY? MIGHT WANT TO TAKE A SEAT!!!! GOING TO GET 2 OR 3 Electric Blue Acara. what do you guys think my tank has mostly barbs cherry, rosy, tiger, green tiger , large red tail black shark and a large common pleco 6 loaches zebra and yoyo. how do you think they will all get along? i will start this in on minday the 21st of this month. THANK YOU FOR LETTING ME SHARE🥰 THIS IS MY TANK RIGHT NOW Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Widgets Posted March 17, 2022 Share Posted March 17, 2022 Looking forward to seeing how this rescape turns out. What is that liquid fish food on the left side of the tank? I haven't seen that used before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scott the fishman Posted March 17, 2022 Author Share Posted March 17, 2022 On 3/16/2022 at 7:09 PM, Widgets said: Looking forward to seeing how this rescape turns out. What is that liquid fish food on the left side of the tank? I haven't seen that used before. OHHH THAT STUFF. MY FISH LOVE IT HOWEVER THEY MATE ALOT AFTER I FEED IT TO THEM😉 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Widgets Posted March 17, 2022 Share Posted March 17, 2022 Ah, mating fluid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scott the fishman Posted March 17, 2022 Author Share Posted March 17, 2022 On 3/16/2022 at 7:13 PM, Widgets said: Ah, mating fluid. YES A LITTLE TRICK I LEARND AT MATING SCHOOL! DONT TELL NO ONE🤐 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beardedbillygoat1975 Posted March 17, 2022 Share Posted March 17, 2022 Barbs are a good choice for EBAs. They’re opportunistic not savage. If they see weak or small fish that can fit in their mouths they’ll eat them. Not overly aggressive unless they pair off so then there might be fireworks. Ie. That 75 is going to feel very small to those Barbs. As for the “mating fluid “ it may promote mating as well as a very interesting microbiome in your tank, and drunk ass fish! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scott the fishman Posted March 17, 2022 Author Share Posted March 17, 2022 CAN I HAVE ALL MALE Electric Blue Acara SAY 3? as for the mating fluid it is great but some times need to break up fish fights. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scott the fishman Posted March 24, 2022 Author Share Posted March 24, 2022 hello fish keeping friends so tomorrow i will get my 3rd and last shipment of plants. and will begin to teardown my tank. this is going to be a huge adventure for me. i would start a journal but not sure how to. and to be truthful my grammar is so bad that you all would see how uneducated i am so i am just posting as i do things. i am excited about this project. this will really be my fist aquascape. i will take a pic right before i start and a couple in-between and then the finish product. until tomorrow friends wish me luck. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Widgets Posted March 24, 2022 Share Posted March 24, 2022 Posting things as you go is basically what a journal is. Some are text heavy with the what, why, and how. Others are picture heavy with more look what I did. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scott the fishman Posted March 24, 2022 Author Share Posted March 24, 2022 On 3/23/2022 at 5:11 PM, Widgets said: Posting things as you go is basically what a journal is. Some are text heavy with the what, why, and how. Others are picture heavy with more look what I did. yeah i do get that. its just i read a few of our members journal and i feel a little intimidated 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guppysnail Posted March 24, 2022 Share Posted March 24, 2022 (edited) On 3/23/2022 at 8:14 PM, scott the fishman said: yeah i do get that. its just i read a few of our members journal and i feel a little intimidated Don’t be. Your tank is wonderful. I always look for your posts friend. We are all a big fish nerm family. 🤗 Edited March 24, 2022 by Guppysnail 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scott the fishman Posted March 24, 2022 Author Share Posted March 24, 2022 On 3/23/2022 at 5:18 PM, Guppysnail said: Don’t be. Your tank is wonderful. I always look for your posts friend. We are all a big fish nerm family. 🤗 thank you!! if anyone will reach out for to me and point me in the right direction i will start a journal. thank you guppysnail. it is your journal that is my inspiration 🥰 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scott the fishman Posted March 24, 2022 Author Share Posted March 24, 2022 Do you guys think it will be ok to have 3 male EBA'S with no females? i dont want them burrowing in the substrate and uprooting my plants. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Widgets Posted March 24, 2022 Share Posted March 24, 2022 On 3/23/2022 at 8:21 PM, scott the fishman said: thank you!! if anyone will reach out for to me and point me in the right direction i will start a journal. thank you guppysnail. it is your journal that is my inspiration 🥰 Think of it this way. The "Photos, Videos & Journals" section is just an organizational grouping, just like this "General Discussion" section. You just create a thread for an ongoing discussion about your tank(s). Looking at this thread, you are sharing your plans, providing updates, and there are questions & answers. If you had originally posted this in the journal section, it would fit right in. You are already journaling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkaleyAquatics Posted March 24, 2022 Share Posted March 24, 2022 On 3/23/2022 at 8:14 PM, scott the fishman said: yeah i do get that. its just i read a few of our members journal and i feel a little intimidated No reason to be intimidated its just your experience with a particular aquarium or multiple aquariums. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scott the fishman Posted March 27, 2022 Author Share Posted March 27, 2022 On 3/23/2022 at 5:11 PM, Widgets said: Posting things as you go is basically what a journal is. Some are text heavy with the what, why, and how. Others are picture heavy with more look what I did. yeah i do get that. its just i read a few of our members journal and i feel a little intimidated Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scott the fishman Posted March 28, 2022 Author Share Posted March 28, 2022 OK guys i have updates with my rescape! first off things didn't go as planned i hurt myself while working on the tank pulled my groin muscle. there were many other obstacles i didn't anticipate. fist mistake i made was doing this mid work week. i worked a five hour shift the day of this adventure so was a little sore from that, i needed to finish this project rather quickly since i had to go to work the next morning. i was trying to hurry with the tank cleaning and tank water transfer to quickly and pulled my groin muscle right from the start i had 5 g buckets filled with slate rock and buckets filed with water and more buckets with plants and water. in my haste i grabbed one bucket of slate stone and a another with water in it and i felt a bolt of lightning from my groin area that didn't go away. happened with in the first two hours so that really limited my ability to move and work like i needed to. i did endure however! After i removed every thing from the tank except the fish i did i vacuum of my substrate. i then added 15 more pounds og fluorite black substrate then i put only one large piece of wood back in the tank and began replanting. my goal was to have all the tall stem plants in the very back of the tank and mid plants in the mid and short plants in the foreground. i did remove most of my Mayaca Fluviatilis it was taking over my tank. this plant was growing half a inch in a single day if not more! the reason i only put back one piece of wood and no rocks was i simply had to many plants the tank was over crowded with plants, wood, and rock. i have notice my tank is now much more open with swimming room for the fish, and they seem to love it, a lot of shoaling going on like never before. ok now some of the obstacles i Mintken'd the brazilin pennywort was damaged probably from shipping, the stocks were crimped almost broken you will see in the pics that out of the three pots i only have one stock with leaves all the others broke off. then the night mare the Monte Carlo witch is a very petite plant the roots were infused with the rockwool i could not separate the roots from the rockwool as you see in the pics i had 12 pots of Monte Carlo to began with and in the pics you see what i only got from those pots i lost about 7 pots worth of Monte Carlo pots. i do think that my lack of skill level did play apart to this. the roots did not bunch together instead were more like tiny tiny individual roots that was to small and fragile for me to separate from the rockwool. i just did the best i could! so after though, my tank is now more open less of a out of control jungle and i got to do what i love interacting with my water box of aquatic life. over all i didn't come close to what i was trying to accomplish but i am still happy because this is what i love to do. NOW THE PICS! the fist pic is just moments befor i sterted you can see most of the pots of new plants. the pics in between are of the penny wort breaking off and flouting in the water column. notice how little Monte Carlo is actually planted that was from 12 pots! the last pic is the finished tank. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Widgets Posted March 28, 2022 Share Posted March 28, 2022 The tank is looking good. I try to go with dense planting in the back and sides for hiding spots, with open swimming area in the front center. I also try for at least one line of sight break to at least partially partition it into two swimming zones. Sometimes the separation of the plants from the rockwool can be an exercise in patience. That is hard to do when you are feeling rushed. Hindsight is 20/20, but it might have been better to leave some of the plants in the planters and let them acclimate to the new tank, then remove them later. This would also let you keep experimenting with the scape with minimal disturbance to the plants. I say this, but I always plow through it instead of being patient. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guppysnail Posted March 28, 2022 Share Posted March 28, 2022 It looks fantastic! Definitely more elbow room. I view rockwool as my nemesis. I’ve partially/completely killed many plants attempting to remove it. The nice part about pennywort is you can break it in tons of pieces and just end up with a bunch of stems. Awesome plant one of my favorites. It does get out of control quick when it’s happy. Great job with the re-scape. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scott the fishman Posted March 28, 2022 Author Share Posted March 28, 2022 On 3/27/2022 at 7:20 PM, Widgets said: The tank is looking good. I try to go with dense planting in the back and sides for hiding spots, with open swimming area in the front center. I also try for at least one line of sight break to at least partially partition it into two swimming zones. Sometimes the separation of the plants from the rockwool can be an exercise in patience. That is hard to do when you are feeling rushed. Hindsight is 20/20, but it might have been better to leave some of the plants in the planters and let them acclimate to the new tank, then remove them later. This would also let you keep experimenting with the scape with minimal disturbance to the plants. I say this, but I always plow through it instead of being patient. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scott the fishman Posted March 28, 2022 Author Share Posted March 28, 2022 On 3/28/2022 at 12:30 PM, scott the fishman said: thank you! there is actually more plants in the very back just to short at the moment. my plan is to have a row of two or three different kinds of stem plants that will reach to the top. not sure what to do about the line of sight. the rockwool incident as i like to call it, i tried with needle nose pliers but i just couldn't separate the tiny roots from the wool. i think there's plenty that got planted that it could still carpet over time. On 3/28/2022 at 2:42 AM, Guppysnail said: It looks fantastic! Definitely more elbow room. I view rockwool as my nemesis. I’ve partially/completely killed many plants attempting to remove it. The nice part about pennywort is you can break it in tons of pieces and just end up with a bunch of stems. Awesome plant one of my favorites. It does get out of control quick when it’s happy. Great job with the re-scape. thank you. my fish seem to like the extra room. i hope the pennywort does take off i really like the plant. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beardedbillygoat1975 Posted March 28, 2022 Share Posted March 28, 2022 I tend to try to use my tweezers and slowly with a downward motion tease out the rock wood. I saw a video on the Green Machine on how to remove the rockwool from hairgrass and it changed my life. Such a bummer this channel is defunct as some of the videos were incredible. Great job with the planting. It is a true jungle scape and I love a good jungle scape. From an aquascaper's perspective I would say that your wood is a little too symmetrical and balanced in it's placement. I would consider using it to counterbalance your beautiful and big amazons on the stage left placing the wood on the right and a bit more right then center. This fits in with the rule of 3rds and the golden ratio. What I think is great is that you already have a lot of height and the mix of textures is really great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beardedbillygoat1975 Posted March 28, 2022 Share Posted March 28, 2022 I think if you move the wood and have the "spires" or branches facing toward the swords it could create a really good vanishing point in that 3rd of the tank and carry your eye. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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