Aquarium & Aquascaping Archives - A Simple Life of Luxury

Aquascape Update – Soda Stream Cylinder

Alan Cole — Wed, 06 Jan 2016 06:38:42 +0000

The CO2 soda stream cylinder in my aquascape finally ran out over Christmas so I replaced it with a new one. That’s not bad going seeing as it’s been injecting CO2 into the tank since August. Most people seemed to suggest that a small Soda Stream cylinder wouldn’t be sufficient for a tank this size but...

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Aquascape with Fish

Alan Cole — Tue, 22 Dec 2015 09:51:01 +0000

Just a quick photo of my aquascape with fish in it. If you look closely you can see the Golden Pencilfish that we added recently. Aquascape with Fish You can also see the Nymphoides on the left hand side – that’s the bright green plant at the back, and some new Anubius plants in the...

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Golden Pencilfish

Alan Cole — Fri, 18 Dec 2015 13:30:04 +0000

We have some new inhabitants in the form of Golden Pencilfish in our Aquascape. I’ve been wanting a school of fish in there for a while and had toyed with the idea of Rummy nosed-tetras, but in the end decided that Golden Pencilfish (Nannostomus beckfordi), also known as Beckfords Pencilfish would be nice and a...

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Aquascape Maturing

Alan Cole — Wed, 25 Nov 2015 14:10:57 +0000

It seems as though I finally have an aquascape maturing. The new Otocinclus inhabitants seem to be making themselves at home and making friends with the shrimps. There are some red cherry shrimps in there too but we rarely see them. Aquascape Maturing The plants are growing well now and the addition of CO2 seems to...

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Aquarium Progress

Alan Cole — Tue, 27 Oct 2015 15:28:19 +0000

Just a quick photo to update you on progress in my ‘Aquascape’ aquarium. The CO2 system that I installed has been working well and I seem to have some sort of balance now. I still get quite a bit of algae, especially on the glass which takes a fair bit of keeping clean, but hopefully...

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Aquascape Additions

Alan Cole — Sun, 31 May 2015 06:47:46 +0000

Things are looking OK in my new aquascape. As mentioned last time I seem to be beating the algae which was a bit of an issue for a while. The Endler’s Livebearers seem quite happy in there, as do the shrimps. Although quite how people take photos of their fish I’ll never know. I’ve also...

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Aquascape Update – The First Week

Alan Cole — Sat, 18 Apr 2015 19:04:20 +0000

Things seem OK in the new fish tank and the Aquascaping experiment continues. The pump that pumps water up over the top of the LED’s is a little bit noisier than I would like but other than that the hardware seems OK and less than a week after flooding things seems to have settled down...

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Fusion Aquascape Flooding

Alan Cole — Wed, 15 Apr 2015 05:24:09 +0000

As promised, on our return from Dorset it was finally time for the ‘Fusion’ Aquascape flooding. I’d been working on the new aquascape for a couple of months and started this out using a method called the Dry Start Method that I had never tried before. Essentially you grow some of the plants, especially those...

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Aquascaping Update

Alan Cole — Wed, 01 Apr 2015 12:30:13 +0000

Just another quick aquascaping update I could be imagining it, but I’m sure there are some new shoots of Eleocharis popping up here and there.

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Aquarium Planting Progress

Alan Cole — Mon, 16 Mar 2015 13:34:56 +0000

Just a quick update on the plants in my new aquarium seeing as it’s been 3 weeks since they were planted. They have been growing emersed as part of the Dry Start Method (DSM) since then and seem to be doing OK. The Staurogyne repens is settling in well and appears to be well rooted now,...

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