Aquascaping anyone in to it here?

co2 setup is waaaay cheaper from your home brewery place than an aquarium for starters ;-)

pretty common hobby in these parts but too expensive for my taste!

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Originally Posted by EchiDna

co2 setup is waaaay cheaper from your home brewery place than an aquarium for starters ;-)

pretty common hobby in these parts but too expensive for my taste!

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I know you can make a cheap yeast reactor for CO2 fertilisation, but I had in mind to use a Soda Stream canister.

I have sand blood and bone and marble it's a self grenadine Co2 setup and very efficient in growing plants....

Had mine going for well over a year now been learning a lot about algae recently as I got some in the tank but that was more to do with me being slack with water changes.

I do have a 5ft to setup with co2 and ph controller etc but I just to scared to do such a big project one moment I think yeah and get all inspirational and the next breath I'm like no what's the point I will stuff it up hahahahah

:D I will get it up and going one day...everything is there except for the substrate and the fish.....

However I will use a river sand next time rather than a coral sand try and neutralise my PH a bit.

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Originally Posted by Grimace

Cool thread!

I love aquariums. It's been a hobby of mine for a while now - original started with gold fish and some Africans.

I think aquascaping is one of the hardest forms of aquarium keeping, and its something I have not yet attempted. I tried a small planted aquarium and I just can't get them to thrive.

I recently got into marine aquariums and after 5 months I am starting to get the feel for it and am happy to post this image of my Nano marine aquarium;

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How often are you doing water changes? Looks good btw. I had a mixed fish coral setup for about 2.5 years before I finally got sick of the monthly water changes and maintenance required. Was changing about 50l each time in the system I had. Was a big job to mix up my own water, otherwise a big drive to purchase it from the local fish shop. I want to give it another go some time in the future but I will spend my dollars automating it so water changes involve opening a few valves instead of syphoning off into 25l drums.

IMO Takashi Amano Planted Tanks are a masterpiece.
During the time when I have 14 fish tanks at home breeding South American
cichlids I was thinking in landscaping one of the 2m tanks.

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/im...012/12/900.jpg

Just have a look THIS page so you know what I mean

Ive had a few planted aquariums, recently shut down mine thouhg, still have my c02 system. I made the leap to a marine nano for now, still running a 5x2x2 fresh water setup but its been scraped back to crushed coral substrate and fake plants as I dont have the time to maintain much else, and a 4x15x18 fresh water,