#550: 647L Dutch Aquascape Escape from Lockdown

Paul Harris ASHFORD, United Kingdom

Awards and Comments

Top Ten
Good work here but the right side is working out better than the left side. On the left the contrasts in leaf sizes tend to be lost and the brown lotus is surrounded by too many plants in the same colour range.
— Marco Aukes
Gorgeous. One of the few tanks in the catogory with a true Dutch style group arrangement. There are several perfect groups of plants. Great fore and mid ground execution - something many struggle with but that is marred by poorly filled background. The Alternanthera in the front center is too dominant and steals from the off-center focal points. Even though this entry does not have too many red plants this shows the problem with look-at-me reds - you have to be really careful where/how many red plants you use. Competing groups of Crypts on either end create undesirable symmetry. If the background and sides were as good as the fore and mid grounds this would have been a winner.
— Vin Kutty

Aquascape Details

Dimensions 180 × 60 × 60 cm
Title Escape from Lockdown
Volume 647L
Background Black card
Lighting 5 x 80w T5 tubes
Filtration Ehiem 2080, Eheim 2026
Plants 1 Cryptocoryne wendtii green, 2 Bacopa carolina, 3 Lobelia cardinalis, 4 Rotala indica, 5 Nyphea zenekii, 6 Heteranthera zosterifolia, 7 Limnophia hippuridoides 8 Athernathera reineckii mini red. 9 Hygrophila difformis, 10 Ludwigia palustris. 11 Ludwigia Mini Super Red, 12 Hygrophila corymbosa Siamensis 53B, 13 Cryptocoryne balansae, 14 Bacopa monnieri, 15 Najas guadalupensis, 16 Limnophila sessiliflora, 17 Cryptocoryne wentii brown.
Animals 25 Harlequin Rasbora, 12 Rummy nose tetra, 12 Rocket pencil fish, 12+ Platys, 50+ Cherry Shrimp.
Materials Substrate; JBL Mando
Additional Information CO2 from a fire extinguisher via a reactor. Major nutrients and Iron dosed separately, daily. Stock solutions made up from base chemicals. 20% water change weekly. Temperature maintained around 24C without additional heating.

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