Bierman's attempt at a planted tank

You are a brave man leak testing in the house. Tank looks really good

 

Haha every time I returned home from town my eyes were closed entering the house... Luckily it held.
Very excited to scape and plant this tank.
Ive had marine tanks, but never have I owned such a stunning empty glass box

 

Finally!!

 

If you don't mind me asking. Where did you get the canisters? I also live in bloemfontein and have been thinking of using sodastream for CO2

 

Hey Ruan
I use CO2 fire extinguishers. I just take them to firequip so they can change the top to a screw so that it can fit the regulator

 

So with my substrate, I also recieved my test kits.
Here are my tap water parameters:

PH 7.75
KH 5
GH 92PPM

Any alarms?

 

Nope, although I expect your pH will lower in time with the aquasoil, which is cool. Mine is even higher out the tap.

 

Some of the plants started ariving.....











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The last arrivals! Tomorrow we scape!!!!!


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Awesome! Looking forward to the pics!

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Took about 5 hours, but we made it!


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looks so cool, well done

 

Love the thread as I am too start g a new planted tank, actually my first planted tank.

 

Very glad you enjoyed it...
It was a long journey and hopefully its still just the start.

Do you have a tank yet?

 

Damn this is an epic hardscape

 

Day 2
Doing a daily 70% water change
Dosing seachem excell and dechlorinator as per bottle instructions. No ferts yet.
CO2 running at 4bps

Did my first water test:
NH3: 0,5 ppm
PH: 7
KH: 3

I didn’t test test for nitrites and nitrates yet.

Biofilm is starting to form on the wood.

 

Day 5:

I see alot of growth on the wood....
I initially thought it was biofilm, but was told on another group it might be staghorn algae.
Only on wood and not on plants
Please let me know what you think.

Still doing daily waterchanges
And dosing seachem excel






On another note, the plant growth can clearly be seen after just 5 days. Especially on the rotalas and montes, although I can also see some small leaves on the pinnatifidas

 

That looks like biofilm to me, it looks like the woods rotting before it gets accustomed to being submerged but I can be wrong