Reddit reviews 4LBS of Aquascaping Seiryu Stone Rock Aquarium Tropical Fish Plant Shrimp Driftwood by Seiryu Stone
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Seiryu Stones are one of the most popular hardscape stones used in aquascapingan order of 4 lbs. in weight may get 1 or 2 stone on the order due to Seiryu are heavy in weight on each stone.Stone size, Stone shape, weight and look will be chosen by us. We will do the best to pick a mixture of sizes in each orderPlease consider this order carefully due to the heavy weight of each stone may not be enough for your aquascaping project. 4 pounds doesn't go very far so if you're working in a big tank, consider 10 lbs or more see next listing.There is no large stone in this 4 lbs. order. Pictures are for references only. Stone needs a good wash before used
Here are some pictures from setting up the hardscape, as well as a close up of the plants
And here's some info!
Tank - mr aqua 12g long The back of the tank has been painted with plastidip.
Filter - Eheim 2215
Heater - Hydor 200w inline heater
Light - Current USA Satellite LED+. Have it dimmed to ~60% RGB/White on a memory setting.
Light stand - This off amazon which I had to bend a bit since it's narrower than the Satellite.
Pipes - Chinese lily pipes off ebay. Going to be replacing them with these stainless steel ones
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Sand - Carib sea sand
Gravel substrate - Seachem Flourite
Rocks - Seiryu Stone I bought a few packs and have a good amount extra, just to use interesting pieces. Took a chisel to one rock to get smaller parts to work with.
Wood - 4 Pieces of small / medium spiderwood from my LFS. My LFS had a good selection and they let me configure some pieces to see how they'd work together.
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Plants:
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No fauna yet but I plan on moving my RCS over, and getting some micro crabs and possibly another type of shrimp!
Well, it does is a hard challenge for a beginner, but doing a properly carpeted nano-Aquascape (~20l <=> ~5g <=> ~2.0 × 10^-2 m^3) with DIY CO2 and a small sponge filter is doable in <150$
A quick, small suggestion:
Tank, ~13l <=> 3.4g, 40$
Soil, 20$
Light, 40$
stones, 25$
Filter, 10$,
1 pot Monte carlo or some other easy carpet plant at your lfs: 8€
We‘re left with 7$ for ~4 RCS, I guess.
I assumed you construct you DIY CO2 from an old bottle with sugar and yeast, so 0$ effetivly.
For cycling and food some free samples of fish food does the job. When food rots it emits ammonia, that could be used for cycling.
So here we go, every thing ready for a nice iwagumi-aquascape. If you do well, it might looks like this (That Tank has HC as carpet, but Monte carlo looks similar)!
Well, if you‘re willing to put up a dozens of hours on studying to to properly keep a planted tank.
edit: Wrong link for tank, this was the one I mistakenly linked to. Still a nice, small tank, tho. Also some additions for clearance.