Whitecloud09 Posted August 19 Share Posted August 19 Can’t wait to follow your journey, cool tank! @sairving Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sairving Posted August 21 Author Share Posted August 21 After work, I stopped at the fish store to pick up more plants. Then the hard work started. I pulled all the plants out that I was going to use, went in the basement looking for my small pieces of dragonstone, gently moved my shy guy to a bucket, and got to work. Once I cleaned the tank up, I moved the stand to clean underneath and behind it. The dust bunnies weren't too bad yet lol. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sairving Posted August 21 Author Share Posted August 21 Once the tank was relatively cleaned up, the fun part started. I bought brought out 3 small pieces of manzinita wood, a small bag od UNS controsand in mojave, controsoil, and more dragonstone. I managed to find half a bag of fluval stratum in the basement. So I used that instead of the controsoil. My initial plan was to use mesh bags to contain the aqausoil, but I had enough dragonstone to make a barrier. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sairving Posted August 21 Author Share Posted August 21 Next came planting the tank and refilling it. The driftwood decided to float and uprooted my crypt parva. I'll fix it tonight. Luckily the lid is holding it down. Took this today. I love the color of the sand. It turns a brown red when wet. I also added the spin pipe on the filter. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guppysnail Posted August 21 Share Posted August 21 Wow!!!! That is so beautiful. I wish I had half your artistic design ability. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sairving Posted August 23 Author Share Posted August 23 @Guppysnail Thanks! I'm happy with how this one turned out. Today, I replanted all the plants that floated over the last day and fertilized the water column. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sairving Posted August 30 Author Share Posted August 30 Did my first waterchange on Tuesday and fertilized the tank with Iron, Potossium and the general fertilizer I have. I use dry ferts from GLA. This afternoon, I removed any melted plants and moved the banana lily. Colonal Mustard was very upset I disturbed his bubble nest. The plants are looking pretty good. Only one that melted so far was the bacopa. I'm really surprised the buce is doing decent. Colonal Mustard's fins are finally starting to heal. The driftwood that was previously in the tank was tearing his fins. Next on the list is to fix the tube for the filter. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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