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To Hades with a background, I say it looks good without.

Also, looking at it now and imagining, I think the riccia doesn't go too far enough. Any thoughts on covering the base entirely with it? I think it would look killer that way, with just the wood, rock and riccia, and that crypt jumping out from behind the wood.

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Also, looking at it now and imagining, I think the riccia doesn't go too far enough. Any thoughts on covering the base entirely with it? I think it would look killer that way, with just the wood, rock and riccia, and that crypt jumping out from behind the wood.

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Nowher you scare me I'm getting there....





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Still very nice, still no height

Seems like the top 60% are all empty. How does it look when you see it directly (aka not a picture)? Is it balanced or is there a big void?

Ingo

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I can see how the shrimp would love a huge lawn of riccia. I think it looks nice. I don't think I'm going to be filling much of the upper half of my 50 gallon tank either.

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Well in keeping with the spirit of showing tanks in progress, I've made a few changes just to get a feel for how different things would look. Here I've added more riccia to the foreground as well as some rotala and a little blyxa partly to see how it would look and partly to see how it would grow.



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Looks nice, though I preferred a little open gravel in the front of the riccia. The lawn looks nice though. I definitely like the addition of the rotala.

I made some progress on the 50 today as well. I'm sure I'll have pics up tonight.

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Wow tetra!

Things are really looking nice!

Let me quote myself from a past post.

I love how you are using the Riccia. Care to share how you are holding it down?

I have seen how some people have used glass, rocks, and stainless steal mesh. The only thing I have used is rocks thus far. I would like to get some stainless steel mesh sometime though.

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Matty,
Thanks. I look forward to seeing your pics.

Wings,
Thanks, the riccia is held down by different size and shape rocks. Some of them are big flat shale pieces and others are rounder. I plastic mess is good too as long as you have something to hold it down. The rocks seem to be easier.

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Tetra,

I have tried the plastic mesh before and found it to be a bit of a pain.

Thanks for the input!

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I agree with Matty that more open sand in the front looks nice, especially with the red shrimp on it. I, however, don't really like the use of the rotala. It adds nice height, which I think this tank does need, but the leaf shape just seems out of place to me. I really like the grassy blyxa, though!

Hoping that there must be a word for everything I mean...

Fine-tune the tank abit more. I'll probably be playing around with this tank alot. Here's a pic comparing the tank from it's starting point and now two weeks later.



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I definitely like the progress it sure needed that rotala in the corner.....but where are the shrimp? Lessee lessee!

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definitely like the progress it sure needed that rotala in the corner.....but where are the shrimp? Lessee lessee

Thanks and good point about the shrimp, afterall it is a shrimp tank. They pretty much hide in that rock structure where the anubias is. They come out mostly in the evening. I think they are both boys so no shrimpsters. I'll have to get some more.

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Tetra,

I seem to have the same problem in my 2G hex with my shrimp. Some times I wonder if they are even still in there. This tank is much thicker than yours though. Lots of moss and najas grass.

About your tank:
I really like it! You do great work with the riccia. Some day I hope I can do the same. How often are you trimming it?

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Thanks Wings.

I haven't trimmed yet since I started the tank two weeks ago. The riccia isn't growing as fast here as it is in my 72g with all the bells and whistles.

I think this tank will probably be good for a least 6 weeks before I'll have to trim the ricca.

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Looks very nice tetratech, but I also would like to see some different angles of the tank shots. The current angle is a little distorting from the real frontal view, or maybe some side shots may be nice as well.

Otherwise, all is lush and green. Do I see some moss on one of the rocks back there?

Ingo

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how often are you trimming in your 72G?

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I really like this tank, it looks like a really nice yard with a big tree in the corner. Makes me wanna make a small tank like this.

Thanks for the comments all.

Looks very nice tetratech, but I also would like to see some different angles of the tank shots. The current angle is a little distorting from the real frontal view, or maybe some side shots may be nice as well

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Hi Tetra,
Please, loose the white background. It screams cloudy water
but then one notices that everything in the tank is clear
and visible.

Frank


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Hi Tetra, Please, loose the white background.

Well, I am sure tetratech knew that and added it only for the shots. And I have to say that for the first of the two pictures it is a truely great background color as it gives the impression of a landscape and not an aquascape, I just love that picture (well, there is one small area that is not so good, the righter half of the back end of the bottom of the tank, if you know what I mean).

Ingo

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Well, I am sure tetratech knew that and added it only for the shots. And I have to say that for the first of the two pictures it is a truely great background color as it gives the impression of a landscape and not an aquascape, I just love that picture (well, there is one small area that is not so good, the righter half of the back end of the bottom of the tank, if you know what I mean).

I knew your keen powers of observation would not let me down. LF is quite right, so don't worry Frank, the background isn't staying. It's really not even attached in fact I pulled the tank away from the background and let the suspended light fall between the back of the tank and the background to get that sky-type effect. That was a good way to put it LF that it looks like a landscape and not an aquascape. I'm far from a good photographer, but it gives a little glimpse into what these photoaquascapers do to get these great shots. Afterall aquascaping in our online communities including contests is probably 50% photo skills if not more.

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Afterall aquascaping in our online communities including contests is probably 50% photo skills if not more.

So true, and the rest is talent and the knowledge on how to manipulate your plants for the shoot so that the tank looks 100% better than it does on an "average" day, like "sure, my stems grow in bunches that allow no light in the lower halves but they don't loose any leaves down there anyway". And "I have never even one dead or dying leaf in my tank".

Ingo

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Yes, there are shrimp in there.

Shrimp Heaven?



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Look closely what do you see?



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Riccia right through the belly?

Very nice shots BTW! Chery Reds are pretty sweet.

Speaking of breeding them from Matty's log. I have found that I never see my older really dark red females with eggs. It is normaly the little bit younger brighter red ones with eggs.



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Look closely what do you see?

A hair net holding down the Riccia

And of course a very nice shrimpster,

Ingo

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Riccia right through the belly

Hadn't thought of that one, but yes you are right.

A hair net holding down the Riccia

Yes that was an easy one for LF, also did you see the bubble on the snout of the shrimp.

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Nice, I didn't see the bubble . Good to see there's actually some shrimp in there. I'll try to encourage mine to breed and grow faster for you.

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That's not a bubble, that's snot

This shrimp has a cold and it shows revers from humans, by expelling air bubbles.

Ingo

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That's not a bubble, that's snot

Pretty gross LF!

A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse!



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Really cool shot Tetra!

I reminds me of the Lion King!

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Pretty gross LF!

Sorry

Anyway, that is a very nice shot (albeit I am not a fan of the Lion King )

It makes the shrimp look like a giant as all plants generate the impression of size (that does not exist). Perfect for a small tank

Ingo

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I reminds me of the Lion King!

That's pretty fun, cause it really does look like that.

Anyway, that is a very nice shot (albeit I am not a fan of the Lion King

So in other words you don't like my tank.

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Hey,

If you quote me the quote all the parts:

Perfect for a small tank

I like the tank, and yes - I confess - I see the reference to the Lion King. I just don't like that book/play/movie/musical/whatnot

Ingo

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I like the tank, and yes - I confess - I see the reference to the Lion King. I just don't like that book/play/movie/musical/whatnot

Did the circle of life upset you?
Anyway, first hendrix,than, monkey skulls, crab legs, now lion king.



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Decided to rescape the nano. Here's the latest look.



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Hi,
Is that a fish in there, near dead center, top?
Or is it a reflection of something?
Frank



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Looking very nice tetratech,

You created some great depth for a small tank and it sure looks larger than life. The only thing that I noticed is that, for my taste, something is off with the stem group. Maybe it comes forward just a tad too much, or maybe the stems are simply a little too thick (I know, they aren't thick at all, the rest is just very skinny).

And yeah - albeit I don't think that is a fish in there, I am with Frank, it sure looks like one. So it it is one, would that be a guppy or a galaxy rasbora?

Ingo

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