My Set Up

That's really nice Fiona. It's great when it's all settled and looking good isn't it? Makes all the hard work and anxiety worthwhile.

Thankee kindly  it was fishless for 2 months while I played around with the plants. The java moss on the floor isn't quite covering the pads it's growing on and I doubt the plants on the wood have attached themselves yet but over all I'm pretty pleased with the effect. When the large filter on the right has matured, it'll go behind the log on the left so it'll be invisible. The large pebbles are swapped out once a day from my 'algae farm' and I squish bits of catfish pellets on for the ottos to get a bit of extra grub.

It's my only tank atm, the smaller one I was going to set up as a quarantine tank turned out to be leaky but we will get a bigger one once I've got to grips with this one. It's a 55l tank

I put a couple of drops of ammonia in the algae farm (Sue's tip) and it speeds it up, I have the pebbles in a glass bowl on the windowsill.

That looks really good. Lovely aquascaping!