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Hello yes: use a toothbrush and apply some h2o2 or glutaraldehyde directly on the wood :-)

Beware of the mold, it can spread easily to plants. On the other hand , did you put some pumice under the soil or carbon, otherwise you’ll get Cyanobacteria with time. Nice looking buce!

Hi, check out the week aqua led

I would like to add that I’m not an Ada fanboy, but after testing loads of tools, the 2 that aren’t to be missed from Ada are the pinsettes and eventually the pro wave scissors. I bought mine second hand as the retail price is so high, but you could always ask an Ada tool for Christmas for...

If you’re serious in the hobby, just get the Ada in L or XL, you won’t regret. The other ones are often too heavy and hard to handle.

Slowly but surely, this mini tank is turning into a Bucephalandra and crepidomanes farm! :) Cheers

Oase tends to be more popular because of the heavy marketing behind the brand but they’re overpriced, low flow and noisy filters. Plenty of other better option, so yeah check the aquael Ultramax and the new sunsun too. Eheim pro 4 are not as nicely built are before but have defo better Flow and...

Hi, check out the Aquael Ultramax 1500, great filter with huge media capacity and very silent.

New location for the aquacube. Really enjoying this set atm. My routine is still: 7h30 per day of light, 25% power on the Onf 50% waterchange per week, only tap water No ferts That’s all, the shrimplets are nearly 1cm now, let’s hope they will sell well! Cheers guys!

Ah thanks, I decided they aren’t worthy to share anymore, so this journal can be closed, thanks for your feedback guys

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Hi Dean, I would recommend the Ada mini M size, the Mini S is cute but really small for plants and ofc livestock apart shrimps.

Cleaned the sand today, removed the eriocaulon as it looked a bit out of place in this tank and wasn’t so happy, added one blueish buce , will add some more phantom mini in the future. Cheers, Atm Garnelio is the only EU shop that had them, they seem to come from an Asia breeder (that’s...

Wow, I would have thrown the oase away after this! 😅 Scape is looking cool!

Hi guys! The aquacube is doing great! In the upcoming days I’ll add some more Bucephalandra and probably remove the eriocaulon as it looks an bit out of place. Onf still at 25% power 7h per day Wc once a week 50% Baby neo koi sunburst are growing fine, I think this tank will be quickly...

These fishes should have been named the guppy cichlid. I remember a friend of mine in my childhood, he had a small 60cm ish sized tank absolutely full of these!

Yes mate, I feel it’s not worthy anymore since I was mainly doing iaplc and participating with something less than 90cm is like running a marathon with a single leg. I’d rather enjoy the tanks for myself these days , and concentrate on growing plants and breeding shrimps. Cheers ✌🏻

I think that the oase could be completely filled with media and just use the prefilter as sponge? A lot of ppl are doing this here in France. And yes media capacity is the main thing, Ada superjet filters for example works like this, full of media, no sponge at all, average but consistent flow...

very complicated, this means more prone to issues, not even talking about the price tag. Honestly if i’m getting a big tank again I would take one of those Chinese stainless filter with programmable pump and maybe prefilter option; -huge media capacity -absolutely silent pump, measured the...

Yeah I heard the 250 and 350 were quieter. But I was disappointed with the low flow of the 600 already so didn’t try something smaller (it was for my 140 liters tank. The media basket of the Eheim are really bad yes, thin plastic and no big capacity, but the flow rate announced seems really...

Actually it’s not that easy to maintain because the eriocaulon and hc Cuba are growing fast , but yeah will try to do an proper finish before plants took over , really enjoying the hakkai stones!

Hi Dean, I always liked the smaller tanks 60cm and less, I feel they are easier to enjoy and keep, sometimes harder to scape but you can keep multiples nano tanks while an big tank requires so much maintenance in comparison. Price wise too, I’ve been doing a lot of contest too in the past and...

Hi, one of the worst filter I ever had (the thermo 600) -noisy -pricey -low flow -average media capacity -energy consuming -needs prefilter cleaning every 2-3 weeks in order to keep it running properly -one of the worst customer service I ever experienced (oase France) Finally, these guys...

I think they are nice, I know some aquascapers in China that are using these with great success, I like the stainless steel Tru too. I sold all mine (tru and Ada) just because I had same results with my 30€ second hand Dennerle scaper’s flow and cheapo internal stuff lol. And ofc the...

Hello, many options: Tru from vietnam, available from minicompletetank, great quality overall, a bit noisy when used at full power but usually more than enough at 25% power, I do like the aquapro stainless steel pipes more than the acrylic ones that comes with. Fzone, bigger, silent but not...

For some reason the switch from the original halogen light decided to die, I grabbed an second hand onf flat nano since I had great results on non co2 setups with this led, here it is, 7h per day on the lowest setting (25% for now). New life growing in:

Nano tanks appreciation for today:

Thanks a lot @Deano3 , it’s nothing too fancy or complicated regarding my previous scapes, but the main goal was to cultivate plants so I guess it’s ok! The betta has moved in a 30liters cube as the mini s was too small for him and in the actual scape he would eat all the shrimplets! :)

Hi folks! So this is basically how the fancy plant farm is looking atm, it became an neocaridina blue velvet breeding tank too as the population exploded quickly. I still have some caridina panda in there but for some reason the population isn’t increasing as quickly. I’ve considered adding a...

Thanks! I heard they were sensitive during shipping and acclimatation, like otocinclus for example, luckily I didn’t have any accident, I feed mine with bassleer bio fish food , the small ones and they love it. Interesting fact; they only eat when the food is in the middle of the tank, barely...

Lovely, Eleocharis loves a good light and co2 situation, is your light enough?

I had 50€ offers for the whole set…so ridiculous that I have to keep it. For now! :-D The Dario Tigris are out to a new tank , so please welcome the small but super cute clown killies:

I wasn’t happy with the initial result so I messed a bit with the wood placement, instead of using eriocaulon in the back, I used only red stems like rotala blood sg, Florida and bacopa salzmanii this time (in order to sell these later). Fertilizer from Ada on this one, brighty K and brighty...

You’re welcome, it’s an tough plant but I would not recommend using something higher than 3% h2o2, just to be safe . So to continue the journal, just before Christmas a local shop decided to close and sold all his stock at -50% so I grabbed and optiwhite 30cm cube for 30€. Next step was easy...

Unfortunately I will have to sell the setup soon, so here’s a view from the side. Cheers have a nice weekend 🥃

So these shots were taken during quarantine in my hakkai stones iwagumi, now some shots in the tropica, excuse the poor quality, I had to sell my mirroless camera last year…

Of course, the thing is, trying to avoid to keep fishes when you don’t have the appropriate size of tank or not the good parameters is an good start already. :-)

You’ll love it ; and your betta too, I think 30 liters is the minimal volume for this active and curious fish. It makes me sad to see these in small aquascaped setup of less than 15 liters…

Hi, the lowest possible actually so nearly closed :)

Hello, check out week aqua, ledstar or netlea leds for example. ;-)

Lovely tank and setup, hard to go wrong with Waterbox tanks and week aqua led ;)

Thanks a lot , it’s local juniperus roots from south of France 🇫🇷 Thanks a lot! I got some new critters for it, neocaridina koi sunburst! 🍊

Thanks bro :) No surprise, bba loves to grow on strong flow area and on slow growing plants/old leaves or hardscape. We are often tempted to put the flow outlet on these grassy plants but it’s an mistake with this one as it will catch bba easily. Easy solution: try to rearrange the Flow outlet...

The betta loves it, he likes the gentle flow and usually spent most of his time near the surface sleeping in the pothos roots or looking for food leftovers or critters in the gravel :) Sometimes he’s flaring against the male badis too , just for fun I guess! He’s seems to be more confortable...

Oh thanks a lot! I just enjoy to play with these nano tanks:) Interested, it may be because new leaves grow a bit strangely (from the middle of older leaves sometimes) so when this happens, the older leave might be more exposed to algae ? What kind of algae do you have on it? I started with...

This is how it looks today, I removed the nymphea as I needed the pygmea for another tank and for some reason, the shrimps loved to eat the leaves of the nymphoides peltata…it looked a bit out of place in this tank anyway. Livestock is still doing good, I have like 30 neocaridina downgraded mix...

So basically at this stage, feather duster was making shade to other light loving stems like rotala Florida or bacopa salzmanii, at this moment I started to think about replacing the mini S size by an 30cm cube which would give me much more depth… Fertilisation is from masterline , golden, 1ml...

Hi, well it can take some time to adapt first and the leaves are of course near the light so it’s prone to algae when the tank isn’t balanced. But once it really starts to spread you should not have algae, mine was algae free after the first month or so. :-)

And this is how it went after a few weeks: I had to replace some mosses due to some small fuzz algae I had in the beginning, erio feather duster is quickly taking over after a few weeks of adapting…an beautiful plant but definitely a bit long for this mini S sized tank, so an tank update was...

I realised I haven’t told which plants I used in this one so: -hygrophila pinnatifida -eriocaulon feather duster -buce moss -Crepidomanes vietnam sp 2 -rotala blood sg -Rotala Florida -bacopa salzmanii -bucephalandra ghost 2011 -many other buces -microsorum petite

Well; co2 injection is all about stability, and I find it easier to achieve when injecting 24/24 :-)

So guys, here’s my recipe for easy high tech nano setup : -Light 6h per day for the first 6 weeks then 7 hours -Don’t dose anything until 6-8 weeks and then some K and micros for 3-4 months (with new soil) -Use nicely balanced aqua soil, tropica is my fav. -do a darkstart or use an already...

Yes, I had multiple nano tanks, pipes and glass feeder from this company, and the quality is great at 1/3 the price of Ada. :) Thanks ! Thanks a lot! Sorry guys, but because I have been too much on this stupid social media called Instagram, I forgot how nice it was to run a proper journal...

Hello it’s an Chinese brand: https://viv.com.hk/

Hi all, As my passion for rare plants grown up since 2 years, and my bank account reduced more and more, I decided to setup a budget friendly small tank to grow rare plants and sell some eventually. So here’s the equipment used: -Viv mini S optiwhite tank 31x18x26cm -Ledstar Aqs-Pro 45 led...

Hi, after some weeks of darkstart, I added microsorum petite, some nymphea (fake nymphea aka peltata and nymphea pygmea helvola) and limnobium laevigatum, the fishes all came from my freshly rescaped aquascaping tanks so it’s an bit of a strange mix but they seems to do well; -7 hyphessobrycon...

Hi, nice journal and tank, for your information the hakkai stones actually available in Europe are all from Indonesia. Hakkai from Japan are totally banned from export. Not sure for how long we will get the Indonesia one but they sure look as good as the Japanese one. :-)

Day 1: I choose to add lotus and alder cones + catappa leaves in order to make the water ´Black’. I added some pothos to the top of the talawa with the help of some Ada wood tight. Let’s go! it definitely has an cool Vibe in the evening, more calming than an aquascaped tank 🥃

Hi, First blackwater try for me, tired of all these fancy but non natural looking aquascapes, so I made this. Had a aquael shrimp set 30 for my birthday last year, so tank is 29x29x35cm. Added a black back foil, because that’s what you want. Throwed away the original led and went for a new...

Who needs rgb led anyway?

I got it directly from China on aliexpress, no need to give money to Bezos. ;-)

Hello, thanks, actually no. But I dismantled the tank shortly after this pic because I found it too boring and it wasn’t appropriate for keeping shrimps…sorry.

I’m really impressed in the overall performance of this set, the old 20w Halogen bulb is doing wonders and not a single hint of algae. Neocaridina has started to breed too so everything is fine I guess, I changed the tank location as it was annoying the misses in the kitchen, took me 5min to...

Hello, I would recommend to not use seiryu stones as UG likes very soft and acidic water , dark start is the way to go !

Hi, strong flow is actually causing more issues than positive things, for example BBA on hardscape and slow growing plants. What actually matters is the media quantity , not the flow itself, hence why Ada filter jet have huge media capacity but very low flow rate. Just my 2 cents , lovely...

This system is now running since 1 month and I’m amazed by the good growth , at first I wanted to replace the original halogen bulb with some led but it’s definitely not necessary with these plants. I added some crypto parva to the right shady part and that’s it. Doing one 40-50% waterchange...

First week, little bit of tannins from the wood and some melt on the eriocaulon, not much more. Cheers

Thanks guys! Here’s day 1: Plant list: -bucephalandra (multiple small species) -bolbitis cuspidata mini -crepidomanes vietnam -eriocaulon feather duster -Phyllanthus fluitans To come: crypto parva Original 20w halogen bulb, 8 hours per day Small internal filter to keep things clean...

Step 3: hardscaping. The aquacube is 20 years already! let’s celebrate it with a scape. Approx 30min session; the idea is to keep it simple in order to use slow growing plants that will love the low light and the non co2 environnement. :-)

Step 2: finding inspiration…

Hi there, long time no see! I found this beauty for sale in a local secondhand French website, couldn’t resist as I never saw another one before here in France…to be continued… Specs: Halogen bulb 20w Crystal made 20x20x20cm, approx 8 liters

Hi there, So after a few brainstorming and help from other hobbyists , I think that my issue may be due to a lack of K and eventually Mg. I wasn’t sure at first to be some kind of deficiency because my dosing schedule has been the same than with my previous scapes but I forgot that I used such...

Beautiful work !

So after closer inspection today, it seems that even the new leaves are affected, including on buce that have been introduced only a month ago (mini coin). Some holes ares surrounded by an translucent green stuff… I think it’s getting worse unfortunately, still dosing daily 1ml of all in one...

While I was cutting the more affected leaves today…I made this to explain the issue : And then I saw many scapes including Bucephalandra or even emersed growing buces with the same issue: I’m starting to think if all this wasn’t just old leaves that were decaying? Apart from the Kishii...

To be honest, the ‘chemical’ aspect of this hobby isn’t what I like the most; I like to do experiment and I learn from every scape…like most of us I guess. I haven’t seen any BBA in my tanks since I learned to avoid directing the flow on hardscape or slow growing plants, it seems that high...

Thanks Wookii, that’s interesting, the holes in my buce looks just like yours but not as many yet… (on 5/6 leaves I have just one affected usually, and it has usually one hole only). I’ve been using carbo on many tanks before, sometimes at triple dose (I’m using masterline, it’s more diluted...

Forgot to mention, I have ramshorn snails in the tank, quite a lot atm, I barely had any issues with these (apart from munching my Phyllanthus fluitans, they are usually doing an wonderful job at cleaning algae on glass/hardscape and plants) but now I’m wondering if the colony is too big and...

Some updates; Tank is still running fine, these last weeks I nearly stopped any fertilisation (apart some masterline all in one golden just after the weekly waterchange). Strangely the staghorn disappeared, though this one was caused by lack of K but in my case it was probably due to an...

Thank you, much appreciated ! Glad to hear, I just found it easier and not so costly in smaller tanks, actually around 1 bubble every 3 seconds on my nanos. ;) Hi, thanks! I’m sorry I don’t test my water apart from conductivity (around 160ppm), temp (21-22 in winter-24-26 in summer) and Ph...

Aquael Ultramax series, Blau stainless steel filter and Ada superjet with the v2.0 pump (es300-es150) are the more silent I had. Worse was the Oase biomaster , filtosmart 100 and 60.

Stunning shot. Stunning scape 👍

Hey guys, small update on this one…turned out quite nicely for something that was just supposed to be an buce holding tank, with some minor tweaks I think it could turn into a unpretentious contest tank. A friend of mine who stopped his business was kind enough to sell me his superjet es150...

Hi all, I added some caridina shrimps to this tank to see if they can help me to do some cleaning on the small diatoms and tank in general, they seem to do great for now (2 weeks in). They love to hide under the biggest stone during the lighting period, they use it as a cave! The UG is still...

Great setup, are you happy with the Eheim? Especially regarding the noise? I’m looking to do an shrimp tank too and was torn between an quality HOB filter and a hygger prime pore filter. Thanks

Curious to see the growth with this old metal halid lamp from Ada, great scape, simple but effective. 👍

Well, I think growing UG with tap water (at 150ppm) in fresh tropica soil seems possible now, not easy at all but manageable with some extra dedication and a dedicated setup. 🙂 The flying shrimp is here to prove that even at level 1 on 4, this little canister filter from TRU has plenty of power...

Hi there, For some reason, some diatoms are still appearing on the glass each weeks, I think it’s because of the low plant mass. Routine is still the same: 1ml masterline potassium daily, and 50% waterchange per week. I might increase the light power because the growth is sooo slow. At this...

Thanks a lot! 🙂 Thanks, about the co2, I had great success doing it so in every nano tanks of mine since 2015 when my solenoid valve broke. I feel it’s more stable this way, and I don’t do high bps with this method (about 1 bubble every 3 seconds) , I just make sure to plant heavily and keep...

Hi there, Next step is basically watching the plant growth in, having good tools for tidy trimmings of the mosses and delicate plants. The rotala blood are growing very fast even used as an epiphyte, starting to mimic the fire over the forest as I wanted! I’ve 2 pair tiger badis (badis...

The app is actually quite basic, just missing some basic option like ‘save the settings’. I’ve found out that once you’ve setup your led, make sure to properly close the app, and then it’s working very nicely, I hadn’t have any bug (like with the Chihiros app) in one year of use. :-)

Watching with interest! Time to invest in some Rilsan necklace ;-)

Dream setup mate, you’ll enjoy the a430 pro, I had the best results under it! Digging the scape too, minimalistic NA style with an great balance, can’t wait to see it grow !

Yeah I really think this one looks weird, Ada seems to recommend it for the Terra 30 and the example I’ve seen of this combo are really bad looking too me, the contrast of the light orange soil and the black background of the Dooa Terra is really strange…the grain size and shapes reminds me a...

Great farm tank, I really like this ludwigia meta. I got some ghost 2011 too and it’s definitely darker and purple color on comparaison to other brownie ghost , Especially the fake ones from Aquaflora for example. It’s actually quite bigger too

I’m actually testing this soil in the 45p and it has two downsides: -it’s really bad looking , the light orange color and the grain size are really looking strange in an aquarium, so unless you can hide it under sand or gravel I won’t recommend it for aquascaping. -The grain size is variable but...

Hi there, The experiment continues, diatoms has reduced and the UG is starting to show some good growth, the transition has been hard especially because of the new soil and the tap water. The growth is definitely a lot slower than the one from the beautiful tank of @Geoffrey Rea , so I would...

Thanks a lot for your support guys, means a lot to me. Time for an update, after adding the fishes it was time to tweak this right part with a new black asia wood, not an easy thing to do in a flooded environment but I’ve seen worse; Not as distracting than before with the reflection on the...