Tag-team aquascaping (need help clearing the cloud)

[martialid10t]

My partner-in-crime and I love this hobby but have very polar tastes when it comes to aquascaping. She prefers the tall, layered, rocky look with big leafy plants whereas I prefer the flatter, zen-ish nature aquarium look. After a year and half into the hobby, we thought it might be fun to clash the two likes.

Here's a run-down of the specs:

14 Gallon Rimless
24W T5HO fixture (running 10K daylight bulb ATM)
5 LB Pressurized CO2 (will be running at 0.5 bps during photoperiod)
Pfertz line N/P/K/micros dosing regimen.
ADA amazonia capped with fluval stratum ebi (ran out of ADA powder type d'oh )
Angel Rock and random base rocks.

Flora: HC, dwarf trumpet, parrot's feather, flame moss, fissidens moss, subwassertang, blyxa jap. Will be adding to this list gradually.

Fauna: CBS / CRS / Yellow Shrimp / Amano Shrimp / Otos Duo of Galaxy rasboras and eventually a trio of scarlet badis when Pat brings these in to complete my stocking plans.

Special Credits (I really hope this trend catches on):

Mykiss (Canadian Aquatics)
MananaP
Jiang604
Kirkdgxp (Fraser Valley Tropicals)
Rogers Aquatic (Roger's Aquatic & Pet Supplies)
Rastapus (Island Pets Unlimited)

We got a piece of this particular tank setup (plants/livestock/ all equipment) from each of you and I might have incessantly picked your brain... Sorry about that ... But thank you! You're awesome beyond description .

Aaron & Sherry



A rocky start - Sherry finds her feature rocks


Softscaping? (hopefully the beginning of another new trend )


Layers... check. Layout... double check!


Hardscaping it in FTW


Yeee boiii


FTS top view


Houston... we have a hardscape!

[martialid10t]

30 min later and ready to plant


Get in there, silly plants..



Palette cleanser. Yellow tail pretending to be a betta


Kk back to work. Lights off and time to flood.




FTS flooded.

[martialid10t]

Reserved for update 2....

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Reserved for update 3...

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Reserved for update 4...

[noisetherapy]

cant wait to see how this looks. neat idea!

[martialid10t]

After 2 days all is looking well in the tank. All plants pearling, no losses in livestock except for an amano that crawled out up the intake as I keep my tank topped up around 2mm from the rim.

Quick question. Has anyone seen ADA seep out haze like this?


I didn't rinse it before entry. It's capped with ebi stratum that was rinsed lightly. I've now turned up my eheim can filter to almost max flow and it's agitating the surface more, has full media and fully cycled from other tank. Have not started dosing or pressurized. Hanging a bag of carbon and put carbon foam pad in the can to reduce the brown tint.

How do I get rid of the haze without doing mass water changes? Have CBS/CRS lower grade in the tank so I'm trying to avoid unnecessary deaths. Don't have a temporary tank for these guys as I thinned out all my other tanks.

My only thoughts are: wait it out / get a nice person to baby sit my shrimp.

Anybody know of good water clarifiers that are shrimp safe? I've planted 3 tanks with ADA with the same filter and they all cleared up within 3 days. This tank hasn't shown any signs of clearing up at all yet.

[CRS Fan]

After 2 days all is looking well in the tank. All plants pearling, no losses in livestock except for an amano that crawled out up the intake as I keep my tank topped up around 2mm from the rim.

Quick question. Has anyone seen ADA seep out haze like this?


I didn't rinse it before entry. It's capped with ebi stratum that was rinsed lightly. I've now turned up my eheim can filter to almost max flow and it's agitating the surface more, has full media and fully cycled from other tank. Have not started dosing or pressurized. Hanging a bag of carbon and put carbon foam pad in the can to reduce the brown tint.

How do I get rid of the haze without doing mass water changes? Have CBS/CRS lower grade in the tank so I'm trying to avoid unnecessary deaths. Don't have a temporary tank for these guys as I thinned out all my other tanks.

My only thoughts are: wait it out / get a nice person to baby sit my shrimp.

Anybody know of good water clarifiers that are shrimp safe? I've planted 3 tanks with ADA with the same filter and they all cleared up within 3 days. This tank hasn't shown any signs of clearing up at all yet.

Yes I have seen ADA haze before, if you read through this thread you can read up on the challenges I had with ADA before. I hope this give you some insights.

Best Regards,

Stuart

[martialid10t]

Yes I have seen ADA haze before, if you read through this thread you can read up on the challenges I had with ADA before. I hope this give you some insights.

Best Regards,

Stuart

Thanks Stuart! Had me going for a sec there though. Thought I was getting a bacterial bloom like yours so I took a siphon to it and it is definitely just liquid haze. It looked cool for awhile, almost like low lying mist. After 2 days though it's just getting irritating. Can barely see my yellows in the back.

I think I may have to go the full WC route if nothing improves in the next few days.

Anybody up for shrimp sitting?

[martialid10t]

Trying to get a better shot of the haze i catch these two playing chicken