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    Rescaped 125

    I finally got off my butt Sunday and rescaped my 125. So far I'm ok with it. It still has some growing out to do and is a little murky from the replanting.

    Before the rescape:


    After the rescape:












    Mark
    What are the facts? Again and again and again--what are the facts? Shun wishful thinking, ignore devine revelation, forget what "the stars foretell", avoid opinion, care not what the neighbors think, never mind the unguessable "verdict of history"--what are the facts, and to how many decimal places? You pilot always into an unknown future; facts are your only clue.

    Robert Anson Heinlein
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    Re: Rescaped 125

    Mark -- awesome looking..  one of these days I will attempt planted tanks.. I am not having good luck with them -- but I am thinking I am going about it the wrong way...

    What fish do Jesper have
    180 WC T. Moorii Chilambo +1 Petro trewavasae.
    110     Cyps, WC Xeno Spilopterus Kipili WC/F1/F2 T. sp red Kiku
    58 S. Decorus
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      Re: Rescaped 125

      It looks great, Mark! Thanks for sharing.
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      • #4
        Re: Rescaped 125

        that looks awsome......great job.....

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        • #5
          Re: Rescaped 125

          impressive!

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          • #6
            Re: Rescaped 125

            Wow!  That looks great!  Sure wish ours would bulk up like that!
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            • #7
              Re: Rescaped 125

              very nice, thanks for sharing, i am about to set up my ada 65g planted tank, hope it turns out nice like yours, but mine won't have so many different plants, what type of lighting?  i am assuming you use CO2/ferts? how do you keep it algae free?
              65 gallon - ADA 120p - planted
              55 gallon - AGA standard - mix cichlid
              30 gallon tall - eclipse acrylic - semi-planted

              live and let live

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              • #8
                Re: Rescaped 125

                I have PC and normal output fluorescent on this tank, 6700K pc and 6500K n.o. By most folks' standards I have way too much light, almost 5wpg, which I offset with a shorter photoperiod, about 8 hr.

                I have pressurized co2, around 20-25 ppm. Hard to tell because even with Chuck Gadd's chart my co2 is an estimate, because his chart assumes that the KH in the water is carbonate and my water has other buffers too. After consulting with Robert Ricketts, Tom Barr and a few others about this I now drop the ph a full log and that gives me somewhere in the neighborhood of 25 ppm of co2. Fish don't stress and plant growth is wonderful. I think it goes a long way toward keeping the algae in check, too.

                I've tried many ferts over the years, from the very expensive ADA stuff, to the cheap route, ie: KNO3 from the pharmacy, NoSalt KCl from the grocery store and Fleet Enema for phosphate, with epsom salt for Mg and fluorish for occasional traces...way too much work. For the last year I've been using AquariumFertilizer.com's PMDD pre-mix, an all-in-one dry mix. This was Greg Watson's formula. It works great and, fortunately for me, is just about idiot-proof. A pound of PMDD pre-mix is only 10 bucks and I use about two pounds a year in my 7 tanks.

                Keeping algae in check is a balancing act between nutrients, carbon and lighting, as you know. I've found that if I start slow and add gradually I can find an individual tank's balance without see-sawing up and down through crises to get where I want.

                Mark
                What are the facts? Again and again and again--what are the facts? Shun wishful thinking, ignore devine revelation, forget what "the stars foretell", avoid opinion, care not what the neighbors think, never mind the unguessable "verdict of history"--what are the facts, and to how many decimal places? You pilot always into an unknown future; facts are your only clue.

                Robert Anson Heinlein

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                • #9
                  Re: Rescaped 125

                  Beautiful tank....looks like a slice of nature went right in your tank!
                  215g Malawi Peacocks and Mbuna
                  180g Tropheus Ikola and Bemba and Clown Loaches
                  58g Bristlenose breeding and grow out

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