Crazy town

Tank: 1500mm x 450mm x 450mm.

Light fixture: T5 54w Odysea quad,aleniod miro4 reflector.
Bulbs: 2x Aquastars 2x Skywhites on for 10 h/pd.
Only aquastars running,still waiting for the skywhites on backorder.

Heater: Eheim Jager 300w.

Filter: Fluval FX5.

Co2: 5kg fire extinguisher,Ista regulator,ista diffuser,ista drop checker,co2 injecting 10 h/pd.

Digital thermometer.

Airstone running 24/7.

Exo Terra Repti Flo 150 l/h powerhead for waterfall.

2000l/h wavermaker.

Soil: 36kg Prodibio Aqua growth(bottom layer). 21kg Flouride Black(Top layer).

Ferts: I added nails to the soil,Scape complete(every 2cnd day).

Livestock:Ottos,green fire tetras,neon tetras,black emperor tetras,blue emperor tetras,rosy fin tetras,lemon tetras,colombian tetras,rummy nose tetras,ruby tetras,xray tetras,super blue kirris,celestial pearl danios,glolight danios,forktail blue eyes,assassin snails.Shrmps: Blue jelly,carbon rilli,red rilli,yellow fire,pumpkin patch,chocolate,cherry.


It was going to look something like this....

But luckely it turned out like this....


Still working on foreground plants,and I'm busy making a weeping willow bonsai that will be stationed on the rock next to the waterfall..update coming soon!!

 

Tank looks awesome.

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Think it looks stunning ... what a nice looking 1.5 - so many go for big fish in big tanks, we really do need more big scapes in big tanks.

Good Job !!!!

Later Ferdie

 

It looks absolutely stunning @Christiaan Duvenage !!!

@f-fish is right... we hardly ever see big planted tanks so this is awesome

 

Here's some closeups.....
Left...

Centre...

Right...

Full...

 

I hate scaping with rocks but this tank looks awesome. I see the ground cover is in. Very nice. Will only get better as it matures

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Def TOTM winner this.

 

Yes Halferi to the left,Monty Carlo to the right.Can't wait for them to fill up.Im getting erio mini in Jan wich will fill the centre part.

Tnx everyone for the positive "reviews".

 

Nice...

 

Absolutely amazing. Where did you get the rocks? where I live you only get round boring boulders.

 

A friend got them from Thabazimbi

 

Sweet looking tank, cant wait to see the updates

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Howzit @Christiaan Duvenage , this looks like an absolute beaut of a tank! Great scaping effort, very well done.
Just an aside, the rocks you've used (specifically back right and back centre) are dolomite. These are calcium magnesium carbonate rocks (CaMgCO3)2 and should slowly break down if your pH runs low with the use of pressurized C02. You can test them with a drop of pool acid. If it fizzes it's dolomite. So maybe keep tabs on your pH and kH, would be interesting to see if the rocks have an effect. All the best!

 

Definitely a TOTM or TOTY contender.
That tank looks absolutely stunning.
Great work.

 

Great work Christiaan, stunning tank. Definitely TOTM contender.

 

This is what happens when you go on holiday for 17days.Plants completely took over my tank.
Did some cleaning up and shuffled some plants around to get it back in shape.

 

That is some great growth on the plants.
What happened to all the Crypts?

 

Took out the dwarf hygro to the right and replaced it with the crypts and Aponogeton ulvaceus

 

Ah, I see the crypts hiding on the right hand side.