Dimensions 13 × 13 × 13 cm

Title Don´t vote for this tank

Volume 2L

Background For the pictures I used an illuminated white cardboard for an "infinite background" effect.

Lighting 6500k 23w compact fluorescent at about 20cm from the water surface. 9 hours of light a day.

Filtration No filtration. 100% of water changed on a weekly basis with untreated hard tap water.

Plants 1 - Hemianthus callitrichoides "Cuba"
2 - Micranthemum umbrosum
3 - Ludwigia brevipes
4 - Unknown plant
5 - Crassula Helmsii
6 - Microsorum pteropus "needle leaf"
7 - Vesicularia dubyana
8 - Marsilea minuta

Animals Rotifers and other microscopic life. I consider this tank too small to cage any kind of macroscopic life in it.

Materials Locally collected rocks and twigs. Fine silica sand as a substrate.

Additional Information Compressed CO2 injected through a wood airstone. Water parameters unknown, I don´t test anymore. I dose nutrients according to the appearance of plants and the presence of algae. Fertilization involves the addition of tiny amounts of KH2PO4, K2SO4, KNO3 and a trace mix every few days. At the time the pictures were taken the tank was four months old.

This is not such a high maintenance tank as it may seem, plants don´t grow as fast as they usually do in other tanks, probably due to the lack of water movement.

I often take an experimental approach to projects, whereby aquascapes are created through the exploration of a particular process rather than specifying a predetermined outcome.