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Hi all,

Just to share my newly setup tank. Two weeks old. Briefly, the specifications are as follows:

Equipment:
1. 150 x 55 x 60 (cm)
2. Sump tank (about 100litres)
3. 2 sets of AI Prime LED lights
4. Ehiem 1262 universal pump
5. Inline CO2 atomiser

Fert Regime:
6. EI Dosing (lean side as I have little plant mass) - 5-day programme
7. About 30 ppm CO2.

Plants:
1. Java ferns
2. Dwarf grass
3. Tiger lotus
4. Amazon swords
5. Nanas
6. Unidentified Val species (help out here if you can)
7. Dwarf water lettuce and water lettuce

Fishes:

1. 01 x Ram
2. 05 x Leopard cories
3. 03 x Otos

Future plan:

1. Let the plants develop abit more and probably add a few tall background plants to create 'more depth'.
2. Add a few more Otos.
3. Add another species of cory
4. Finally add wild discus.

Inputs on how to improve and also correct identification of plants are greatly appreciated.

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Cheers!
 
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look so cool. love the substrate. it going to be a pain to keep looking clean ;)

thanks! I agree with you on the cleaning part. Siphoning the sand and cleaning the walls of the tank take me about 30mins during a 50% water change. The remaining 15min is spent on topping up the tank.
 
Looks lovely. How are you going to combat evaporation considering it will be a hot tank for discus?
 
Thank you. Evaporation should not be too much of an issue due to the following:

1. My sump tank capacity is sufficient to cater for evaporation rate in between water changes. So far I do not have to top-up water with the tank temperature between 26 to 28 Degree Celsius.

2. I live in Singapore. So the ambient temperature is usually between 27 to 33 degree Celsius at close to 100% humidity. So the rate of evaporation may not be as high compared to UK.

I am more concern about my ability to keep the substrate clean for the discus.

(Ps:grammar edit)
 
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A quick update.

1. Out of the 4 tiger lotus plants, only two are adjusting to the submerged environment.

2. The cories and otos are thriving.

3. The sand substrate, as predicted by someone here, is hard to maintain. So will have to go with the 'grunge' look instead of the snow look.

4. The dwarf grass on the right side is creeping.

5. The val on the left side is creeping as well and has flowered.

will update in a month's time.

thanks for viewing!
 

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So the rate of evaporation may not be as high compared to UK.
Will be much higher in UK as air is dryer, not 100% humidity. In Singapore the air was at 100% humidity therefore water would not evaporate off.
 
An update. The plants are doing OK. 4 out of 6 the Tiger Lotus have established themselves. Small GSA on the drift wood but otherwise OK.

Next update will hopefully include discus into the tank.
 

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New additions to the village:
1. 6 panda loaches
2. 3 sparkling gourami
3. 3 Yamamoto shrimps.
4. 2 Dario dario

(edit to upload the pictures... couldn't do it through my phone.)
 

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Sad to report that i lost 4 of the panda loaches and all the yamamotos within the first 24 hours. For me to lose so many at one go means I might have introduced them into my tank too early in my eagerness. Sigh.
 
Sorry to hear of the loss of your loaches and Shrimp. In The wild the Loaches are found in fast flowing streams with a high dissolved oxygen content, water temperature is generally between 20 to 24 centigrade, and an alkaline ph. As far as i'am aware all fish offered for sale are wild collected, it's probable that the parameters in your tank have not suited the loaches. I kept a small group of four fish roughly five years ago and tried to replicate a biotope aquarium, with regard to the specific requirements of the loaches. The last of the group died last year.
 
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