Juwel Rio 125 (about 29G) no monsters here!

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Just a quick update of the Riccia I place on the tree branch I picked up at Hyde Park Corner in central London.

Riccia pearling:


Riccia on the tree branch:


Another close up:


Critics and comments always welcomed! :)
 
Beautiful setup!

CO2's definitely make the difference and great choice of fish
 
Hasi;941297; said:
Beautiful setup!
CO2's definitely make the difference and great choice of fish

Thanks, rainbows are my favourite, hopefully soon I will be able to get my 500 liter setup and then I can have a large planted full or rainbows :)
 
Hi guys, just a quick update, all is going well, the riccia in the meshes was not growing thoughout as I planned so this weekend I just re did it, since it had grown very fast on a couple of meshes, I now had enough to place a proper spread all over the 4 meshes. Will need to wait a couple of weeks for it to fully develop now, should notice growth by the end of the week.

Angled tank shot after a good trim of the plants and just before the water change:


As usual comments and critics always welcome :)
 
soon the ricca will cover the whole front floor. Wow! Any thought of going bigger? .....a couple hundred gallons...now that will be a monster :)
 
kt13n3;958842; said:
soon the ricca will cover the whole front floor. Wow! Any thought of going bigger? .....a couple hundred gallons...now that will be a monster :)
I am planning setting up a 130G planted tank in the form of a L, its on hold at the moment, other things come first ;) if not possible I will set up at least a 60G ;)
Thanks for the comment.
 
Hello everyone,

Over the last couple of weeks I have been moving things around. I had 3 Clown Loaches in the tank for just over 3 years from my time before moving to planted and they were causing havoc with uprooting plants etc... they were rehomed last Saturday and gave me an oportunity to redo somethings and get the tank back on track.
My place was a building site for about 6 months and the tank was just left there feeling very neglected, since I was doing a lot of the work myself after my job, there went the evenings and weekends. The only plants that didn't survive was the Riccia and HC, and the green plant I had on the left hand side which I have no idea what it was called. Also on the left hand side underneath the plants there was a large 15cm diameter by 30cm long plastic tube where the loaches used to hide which I have now also removed. During that time the Anubias grew like mad now I have lots just from one tropic pot, silly me left them out too long while moving things about and some of the leaves dried out :(

The plants have been trimmed quite a bit so needs a couple of weeks to grow back, last week got a couple of pots of HC which I planted on the left hand side and this week received some glosso and mosses, which I planted yesterday. The glosso is away pearling which I guess its a good sign, I am trying it on my pea size gravel and see how it goes, if it doesn't hold I will change the gravel.

OK enough for today, here are some photos I just took.

Full tank shot:
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Created a moss wall on the back of the tank using a wire mesh, just want to see the effect when it grows.
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And a photo of my favourite fish :)
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As always comments and critics always welcomed.
Thanks for looking :)
 
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