Full process tutorial for rescaping a 120CM planted aquarium
I've always missed the little stream I played in as a child, a place that once brought me endless joy.
Now the stream is long gone, and so this aquascape came to be - "Stubborn Stones," hoping to recreate in the tank the scene of "in the calm of the turbulent flow the sand can be counted, among the stubborn stones the grass does not wither." Since this was my first time scaping a large tank and I lacked experience, and there isn't much information online about two-sided aquascapes, the process didn't go smoothly, and many details in the tank don't satisfy me either. I've been adjusting it for half a year. It's also for this reason that there's no so-called finished-scape photo; the scenes in the tank are all stage by stage.
Tank: 120×50×50 ultra-clear, 75-high wooden stand
Filtration: DF1300 + CF1200 in parallel
Lighting: 4 tubes of 54W T5HO, 216W total
Substrate: iron gall sand + cosmetic sand
Fertilizer: Boyu base fertilizer + Boyu liquid fertilizer
CO2: Huadi bottle + RO diffusion reactor, 2 bubbles per second, running 24 hours
Livestock: cardinal tetra, cherry barb, black phantom tetra, medaka, Siamese algae eater, otocinclus, bristlenose pleco, dwarf corydoras, Amano shrimp, black-shell shrimp, etc.
Aquatic plants: dwarf pearl grass, mini dwarf pearl grass, needle-leaf crown, mini pepper grass, pearl grass, small bamboo knot, giant hairgrass, narrow-leaf java fern, blackwood fern, triangle moss, red rotala, large red myriophyllum, oval-leaf clove, etc.
Water changes: 1/5 tap water every week
Temperature: 26-27 degrees
Started playing with building blocks, first arranging a rough skeleton on the windowsill
Following the shape of the blocks into the tank, this is the front.
The back
Add a little water, start planting
After planting, fill the tank with water
Too few plants at setup, this is a lesson
After more than 1 month
Start trimming the plants.
More than two months
Side view
Back view
Side view
Month 4, the fast-growing plants grow quickly and have already reached the top several times
Below are close-ups
There's a surprise here too
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