Where the Forest Breathes
About This Aquascape
Inspired by Sebastião Salgado’s Poster Creek, this aquascape portrays the Amazon as a living organism where roots and shadows echo the forest’s silent rhythm. The central light path symbolizes breath, as if nature inhales through a broken canopy. Rummy Nose Tetras glide like tropical birds, infusing life and movement into the stillness.
- Filter
- Seachem Tidal 110 Matrix Purigen
- CO2 System
- ~ 45 ppm CO2, running 2 hours before lights on and turning off 1 hour before lights out 3 times per week using macros and micros, with 30% weekly water changes.
- Lighting
- Netlea AT5S - 45cm Micmol Master 600 - 60cm
- Substrate
- Ada Power Sand S Aqua Soil Amazonia V.2 Dune Sand PlantPro Molinari Gravel PlantPro
- Hardscape Materials
- Seiryu Stone Dragon Wood
- Background
- Painted cardboard to achieve the gradient
Species
Hemigrammus rhodostomus Otocinclus Affinis Dwarf Pufferfish Neocaridina Shrimp Amano Shrimp Nerite Snail
Plant species
Anubia barteri nana 'Petit Golden' Anubia barteri var. nana 'Petit' Bucephalandra brownie phoenix Eleocharis minima Eleocharis pusilla 'Mini' Eleocharis sp. (Japan) Eleocharis vivipara Fissidens fontanus Hemianthus callitrichoides "Cuba" Hygrophila pinnatifida Micranthemum micranthemoides Micranthemum sp. Monte Carlo Microsorum pteropus (Windelov) Microsorum pteropus 'Trident' Pogostemon helferi Riccardia chamedryfolia (Coral moss) Staurogyne repens Taxiphyllum alternans (Taiwan moss) Taxiphyllum barbieri (Java moss) Vesicularia ferriei (Weeping moss) Vesicularia sp. (Nambei moss)
Fertilization
Macro Powerfert, Micro Powerfert, Magnum Elixir Powerfert, Ferro Powerfert, PowerCarbo Powerfert. 3 times per week using macros and micros, with 30% weekly water changes.
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