Planted Nano Competition - Lennard

Thinking for a long time on the scene I want to portray. I did have an old small tank but cleaning it out I noticed it had too many scratches. I bought a starter tank- I can use all the extras in the set for my guppy breeding.

I was thinking of doing a tropical volcano scene or a driftwood scene, but looking for driftwood I found this old shaped stone and decided to do an Atlantis ruin type of scene.

The stones and the driftwood I am going to use:



The tank and the first stage finished:

 

This looks interesting!

 

This is gonna be stunning! That's quite an impressive archway you've built. Love the way you used the reflection to your spatial advantage.

 

Look forward to this one

 

epic ...

 

Progression 5/12/2015

The moss:



The "driftwood" planted:



The gravel:



I did plant the tank using 5 different kind of plants, but the tank being so small and my hands do not fit in there, I am not too happy with the outcome. Maybe leaving the tank for a day or two for the plants to settle down will make it look better.

Will update then.

 

Looking forward in anticip.... Unfortunately I can only start with 4 plant species... Algae always joins the party and wrecks my plans

 

- Ja ... had the same issue with mine, think we are using the same tank sizes, just mine's viewing panel is a short side. I ended up doing almost everything with two tweezers ... still not as simple as it sounds but almost worked. I think your lights stone is good choice - again I am amazed at how hard it is to this in a nano tank.

Later Ferdie

 

Finished.

At last finished:







Now some pruning when it grows out.

 

Very cool! Seriously awesome!

 

Lennard that looks great

 

That looks brilliant. Unlike you, I try to get rid of bonsai skeletons asap... They make me feel guilty

 

At this stage I am trying to get rid of most of my bonsai, I am only keeping my Ficus..........and that will leave me still with over 100 trees! When it comes to bonsai skeletons, I only killed about 5 trees- that is not so bad!

Thanks for all the positive responses.

 

Not bad at all! Just some advice that worked for me when I had to get rid of a large amount of trees... Make up lots of about 5 trees each. Have about one or two good trees, one or two nice pots and the balance is rough stuff. Otherwise you'll end up with tons of unsellable stuff. I let the bonsai society know... Sold ALL of the trees I wanted to get rid of in 2 days.

 

Very Cool.
Again proving you don't need hi-tech and a lot of fancy stuff to setup a planted tank.
Love all the ideas coming out of this comp.

 

I had to remove all the plants in the tank because the tree was stealing too much light/throwing a shadow. I will replant the tank, but I will not use the tree again.

 

Yeah these nano's are difficult - way more things to consider than a larger body of water.



Later Ferdie

 

How's the re-planting going @lennard?

 

I have planted the moss tree in another tank and has replanted the original one. I have added another feature. The tank will probably have a limited lifetime because the Amazon Lily and the Vallisneria will not stay small for too long. This time I will do some filtering and add some guppies also.

Not the best pic, but here is the new look tank:

 

Looks nice, but not as cool as the first iteration. Maybe some ancient looking artifacts as a focal point? Some stoneware? An amphora perhaps?