Dry start: My first attempt on a 11gal nano

[Steven]

Well well...I should have cover mine too. Thanks.

[jonny_ftm]

Hi,

Here's how it is going now, 7 months after immersion. High CO2, low light and low maintenance really. WC every week, 50% that takes 15mn total because of volume. No syphoning at all (low fish load, many shrimps an snails to do the work for me). Trimming every 4-6 weeks. Glass was never cleaned in 7 months, crystal clear !!!

Note: I changed my digital camera, so photos quality changed (Only retouching is white balance corrected in raw mode, resize and crop)

Before trimming



















After trimming it:

[anshuman]

hairgrass and that christmass moss (or some moss) really take the focus in the tank, super looking tank i want to be a shrimp in that tank

[jonny_ftm]

hairgrass and that christmass moss (or some moss) really take the focus in the tank, super looking tank i want to be a shrimp in that tank

Many thanks for your comments. The moss is Weeping moss. I found it slower growing and better sticking to wood than Christmass in my tank, so removed all the Christmass. Hair grass on the left is riccia carpet, on the right Glosso doing fine in extreme low light. I'll try to post closeups of Anubia leafs. No spots at all after 7 months of immersion. They were never trimmed

[jonny_ftm]

Before I move house, on 31 july, I trimmed the Eleocharis



CO2 reduced to 12 bpm from 48 bpm
WC to 10% from 60% /week
No more macro
TPN 1ml /week

After 3 weeks (Riccia was completely rescaped under a net and the growth you see is after 10 days):





Still enough pearling
Some anubia in the dark part you see under the moss (black zone in picture, so dark) melted: too low ligh with low CO2 as Tom suggested

[anshuman]

still looking gorgeous. thanks for updating this .

[jonny_ftm]

Thanks,
DSM with organic soil seems to help a lot

Just made a mistake: 12 bpm and not 6, I count in 30 secs :-)

[Ralleh]

So, are you permanently suspending the use of macros in this tank? Is it presumed that fish/rimp waste is sufficient?

[jonny_ftm]

Yep, no more macro at all
But, I do monitor my NO3 and PO4 with a calibrated kit. Shrimps feeding is supposed to give the needed macro, but soil should provide the most of it in my case

Micro is really dosed in a very very smooth way: 1ml/week TPN only

10% WC also should help
The very low CO2 dosing seems to work greatly for now. Only the Rotala Wallichii didn't do it

The glosso seems to prefer this low CO2 / low macro setup, it is really doing fine. On the front right part, I removed the glosso (too much trimming and I will add some more C. Parvula to make it denser

Here's how it is growing:

[dutchy]

Pretty nano

regards,
dutchy