#50: 4000L Aquatic Garden After the sunset

Oliver Knott Eppingen, Germany

Awards and Comments

Second Place
I would like to say that even though I am not a big fan of anything artificial but the size of the tank and the quality of plants and fish make this not as important.
The designer skill to blend the wall with this layout is extraordinary.
One comment is that plant no. 5 is so big that is competing with the right section where the "three" is placed. may be thining some leaves will enchance the look of the tank.
— Luis Navarro
Planted discus tanks are always a hit among visitors to a living room that has one. This one is no exception I guess. However in order to score higher I would suggest reducing the use of artificial decoration (background and trunk).
— Ole Pedersen
Gorgeous tank! Now if it just housed some beautiful naturally colored discus instead of these red guys it would be just about perfect!
— Karen Randall

Aquascape Details

Dimensions 400 × 100 × 100 cm
Title After the sunset
Volume 4000L
Background Aftifical background
Lighting Lightning: 16 x 54 Watt T5, 4 x 39 Watt T5, 4 x 24 Watt T5, Time: 11 hours
Filtration Sand filter system
Plants 1=Marsilea hirsuata, 2=Cryptocoryne albida/ Cryptocoryne wendtii "Tropica"/Cryptocoryne lucens/Cryptocoryne wendtii "Brown", 6=Echinodorus uruguayensis, 5=Echinodorus "Rubin",3=Echinodorus martii, 4=Echinodorus bleheri, 8=Crinum calamistratum , 7=Microsorium pteropus/Microsorium "windelov"/Anubias barteri var. Nana, 9=Eichhornia crassipes
Animals 10 Discus Marlboro , 5 Discus Pigeon Blood , 5 Discus Sanke Skin, 50 Siamensis, ca. 70 Ottocinclus sp. "Negro" , 100 Neritina natalensis
Materials Artificial decoration (wood and stones), different fertilized substrate, black gravel
Additional Information PH: 7.20, KH: 6, GH: 8,
Temperature: 28 Celsius, CO²: 3-4 bubbles second,
daily liquid fertilizer: 80ml Tropica Master Grow daily, after waterchange iron tabs

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