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Just my wishful thinking and hoping that the dense plantation would have aided the shrimp in their survival. Well I'm so wrong. Even amano succumb to their little beaks! Anyway this is a long due update since the tank was setup. Sorry for the picture as it was uploaded on my iphone. Day 59...

Re: 3 feet tank now planted and scaped! Update! Filter seemed to be coping well with these level of stocking. The fish death so far seemed to be due to bullying or jumping out of tank! So far I've lost about 20 tetras and 1 SAE. The otos and shrimp were dying one after another till I find out...

Re: 3 feet tank now planted and scaped! Update! I've also bought some fauna to go in the tank and currently still undergoing acclimatising before releasing them into the tank. The list is as follows 1. 10 x taiwan fire red shrimp 2. 100 x golden harlequin rasbora 3. 5 x pgymy puffer 4. 26 x...

Re: 3 feet tank now planted and scaped! Update! Well just a quick update after a little over 2 weeks since the tank has been setup. The plants so far is doing ok. Some thriving and some melting.... But I suppose this is expected due to all the things that had happened over the last 2 weeks! Let...

Re: 3 feet tank now planted and scaped! Update! TPN lacks N and P. TPN+ has all the nutrients. :) I was dosing 10mls for 90 litres tank so this tank would be roughly 15-20mls I would assume. Considering there is literally no kH in my water and low gH, I think I'm going to start doing EI dosing...

Re: 3 feet tank now planted and scaped! Update! Done that. Running at 3bps now and dosing 25mls of TPN+ and lighting at 7hours a day at 150W besides that it will be 48W of T5HO. Just done it this morning and my HC started pearling! First time pearling with HC and this is without water changes...

Re: 3 feet tank now planted and scaped! Update! I think I have to agree with you on this one. After a long time of pondering on the topic, I've decided to go with a separate system for the chiller and the CO2 diffuser with the prefilter. The whole system linked together was causing too much...

Re: 3 feet tank now planted and scaped! Update! Sigh. I missed the day when all I need to do is hide the heater behind the rocks and job done. First time using a chiller and it's possing as more of a problem than help. I think I'll either separate the system or purchase a sump tank with an...

Re: 3 feet tank now planted and scaped! Update! I thought that the external water pump was designed to cope with potential backpressure? Isn't that the reason why they quote how many metre of head it can provide? If the waterpump can handle this backpressure, I would rather leave the system as...

Re: 3 feet tank now planted and scaped! Update! Thought about it but I think it will still be the same when I connect the chiller and the lily pipe. A pump rated 2000 litre would probably turn out to be running at 500lph under these pressure. Maybe I'll just invest in a big external pump like a...

Re: 3 feet tank now planted and scaped! Update! Sigh... This will mean that there will be 2 more intake and outflow pipe from the chiller system itself. I was hoping that I wouldn't need to resort to this. Maybe I'll just an over flow box and a sump to make it easier and scrap the external...

Re: 3 feet tank now planted and scaped! Update! The whole system includes 3 meter of 16/22 hose that interconnect the prefilter, tetratec filter, chiller and the hailea pump. I tried removed the hailea pump but the air that was trapped in the system caused the tetratec to leak from the priming...

Re: 3 feet tank now planted and scaped! Update! This is the video that I was referring to

Re: 3 feet tank now planted and scaped! Update! Thanks for all the input guys. I initially got this idea from a youtube video I saw where a guy had an external canister filter which was underperforming and then he attached a submersible water pump at the outlet and the system output increase...

Re: 3 feet tank now planted and scaped! Update! I did spent a lot of time cleaning the rock too. but the more I clean the rock the more it crumbles! I got afraid in in the end so I ended up using a soft brush to brush away all the mud. The tank this morning was crystal clear (thank god for...

Re: New 3 feet ADA mimic tank setup. (Pic heavy) 3 pots of HC split up 6 pot of pogostemon helferi in a plastic bag. Doesn't look a lot really Open up the bag. Now it looks a bit better When you split it up... Tada 3 pots of blyxa japonica 3 massive pot of crypt. undulata red When you...

Re: New 3 feet ADA mimic tank setup. (Pic heavy) Plants arrived this evening from aquaspotworld and the quality was good in comparison to what the LFS was selling. I was more than happy to pay the premium for these plants. Still a distance to go before catching up with tropica and aquerfleur...

Re: New 3 feet ADA mimic tank setup. (Pic heavy) Ok first of all sorry for the late reply and the lack of progress. I've been busy with family matters and the celebration of chinese new year here in Singapore. Went back to Malaysia for a few days and the whole project came to a halt. The tank...

Re: New 3 feet ADA mimic tank setup. (Pic heavy) kH from my understanding only includes the calculation of bicarbonates aka the buffer and not the calcium, is it not? i.e. you can calcium chloride to supplement your micro but it will not affect your kH. If that's the case, do I need to still...

Re: New 3 feet ADA mimic tank setup. (Pic heavy) So tested the water again today and the result remained unchanged. Ph 7.0 Kh 0-1 Gh 3 ish I also tested the tap water and the ph was 7.6! The rest of the parameter was the same Considering there is no active Ingredient In my tank to lower the ph...

Re: New 3 feet ADA mimic tank setup. (Pic heavy) But dragon stone is suppose to be inert isn't it? From aquaessentials website quoted "A soft rock with incredible grooves and crevases created by mother nature. Often longer than they are wide they can be placed easily within a substrate...

Re: New 3 feet ADA mimic tank setup. (Pic heavy) My ceiling is rougly 10-11 feet height. :) Not too tall. Just enough for a typical asian guy to walk through the door lol.

Re: New 3 feet ADA mimic tank setup. (Pic heavy) took me an hour to hand pick those out of a pile of rubble. tested the water after the stone has been in there for 8 hours as I was curious and the result : pH 7.0 kH 0 gH 3 I couldn't believe my own eyes..... guessed i'll need to bedosing...

Re: New 3 feet ADA mimic tank setup. (Pic heavy) ok so I went out and carry a 15kg worth of what I thought is Dragon stone back with me on a 30 minutes journey on the bus! Chucked the whole thing into the tank and will test the water tomorrow to see if it affects the water chemistry. So far...

Re: New 3 feet ADA mimic tank setup. (Pic heavy) hmmm I think looking at the other picture, it is a dragon stone. This piece is only tiny and the rest of the stone that came with this one was actually a lot bigger with similar structure to the one that was posted on the ebay link. Think it's...

Re: New 3 feet ADA mimic tank setup. (Pic heavy) Finally got all the tubing ready and all the parts connected to start cycling the tank. In the mean time, I have staurogyne and crypt wenditii brown and crypt parva growing in full sun emersed on the window sill awaiting harvest in a few weeks...

Re: New 3 feet ADA mimic tank setup. (Pic heavy) I got those time when I was in the UK and brought them with me just for the sake of it and thank god for that. I got them for 2 quid each and here they were asking for 7 quid for a crappy china made one! I've used them previously without any...

Re: New 3 feet ADA mimic tank setup. (Pic heavy) The halide lamp :) First time ever using halide lamp. Can anybody recommend what distance should I suspend the light over the tank? It's only a 150W + 2 x 24W T5HO. Currently it's at 30cm height. I can move the light stand higher if I want to but...

Re: New 3 feet ADA mimic tank setup. (Pic heavy) My final fish tank ADA substrate My little babe Customised stainless steel stand Side view

Re: New 3 feet ADA mimic tank setup. (Pic heavy) Tank, light stand, ADA substrate, ANS I-Flo lily pipe for 17mm tube arrived last night. The substrate includes ADA Power Sand M (2L) x 2 ADA Aquasoil New Amazonia (9L) x 3 Bacter 100 (100g) x 1 Tourmaline BC (100g) x 1 Clear Super (50g) x 1...

Re: New 3 feet ADA mimic tank setup. (Pic heavy) Well better not count the chick before it hatches. I'm still waiting for the replacement tank. For all I know it could be just as bad. My Stainless steel light stand has been done though. Waiting to be collected in a few days time. Hopefully this...

Re: New 3 feet ADA mimic tank setup. (Pic heavy) Well I kinda accepted the fact that things in singapore would be more expensive than Malaysia. Sometimes I wished that I had a lorry and can go just across the river to bring things in. The tank stand was ok quality but I can't seemed to find the...

Re: New 3 feet ADA mimic tank setup. (Pic heavy) I've spoken to the seller and he has agreed to redo a new tank as a replacement. I don't think I can asked for much more as he has given me a discount and offered it to deliver to mine for free. The tank was only £150 to start off anyway. Anyway...

Re: New 3 feet ADA mimic tank setup. (Pic heavy) I'm also thinking of asking the seller to strip the side panel and reposition it if possible rather than just accepting a discount on more goods. Does anybody has any idea about the strength of the tank following replacing of a panel after the...

Re: New 3 feet ADA mimic tank setup. (Pic heavy) I mentioned that to the seller too. He said it should be ok as they have build curved tank before and it hasn't been a problem. The tank also comes with a 5 year warranty. I'll only fill the water to about 40cm level where the misalignment is at...

Re: New 3 feet ADA mimic tank setup. (Pic heavy) I ventured to most of the LFS in my first week here and trust me when I said I did a lot of walking. My friend was shock when he wanted to bring me around in his car and I said I've been to all those places on foot!

I've just relocated to Singapore and my hand was itching to get back into the planted tank business already. This transition has been hectic and so far nothing but trying to settle down into my previous routine seemed to be met with challenges, one after another. anyway, cut the story short, I...

The singapore fissidens is in a poorly state. It needs a good light with good CO2 to get it kick start again. I think it's fairly robust but not as sturdy as java moss. I had some in my previous post viewtopic.php?f=23&t=16868 that you can compare to. How much did you pay for that piece? I...

Looking back at when I first started planted tanks, so much has changed. I remember my first 4 feet tank that was only planted with floating riccia and moss to act as a shrimp tank and gradually drifting towards smaller tank due to lack of space and now my nearly finish 2 feet tank has given me...

I had CRS in tank without substrate before but it was quite heavily planted. I think it can do without substrate but you can to fill it up with plants to make the shrimp feel secure.

I went for low tech myself too. Had swords of different variety, moss and bolbitis in it. Substrate of amazonia and tap water (Gh and Kh of 0 straight off the tap!) and one piece of mineral rocks. Water change once every 3-4 weeks. I find that my water quality stays better if I have emergent...

I just grown mine in filter floss with sunlight and got the same result. :)

My plants were emerge plant when I purchase them so I just get on with my fert dosing on day one but I started off with reduced lighting and reduce fert. Once the plant has adapted to submerged growth then I increase fert and increase lighting. Of course keeping CO2 optimum at all time. But...

Re: New journal [short term] ISLAND ~Those woods look familiar in terms of shape. Was it you who I sold my manza to previously? :)

What's with the smell of the carrots?

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Where are you planning to get your needle leaves from? I got some from the far east and it's cost me a boom for a meager portion...

I find that when my frogbit got caught in the current and lodge themselve between filter pipes and their leaves get submerged for a period of time, their leaves will die off. It also happens when it get tipped over for any reason. It will try to correct it's own position but the leave will rot...

Hey mate hang in there. The tank is nice looking and it's worth sticking till the very end. I had mine for 3 months now and I've suffered from staghorn, BGA, BBA, Cladophora and hair algae and now I'm just about to come out of the algae mess and have a breath of fresh air. Your sounds better...

Too little light... Your sword plant will suffer. Your tank has around 0.5wpg and that would probably be alright with the rest of the plants. Not sure about growing staurogyne in such low light. It really depends on what you mean by low maintenance. If you want to keep water change and plant...

You might want to be careful or else you will end up losing some of those precious crystal red shrimp. The anubias that you got in the tank is poisonous to the shrimp and trimming the plants will most inevitably kill of your crystal red. So far anubias plant and cryptocoryne is a no no when it...

I'm so envy of your tank! I can grow limnophila aromatica just fine but I can never get it to turn red like that. :? Mine is always a light shade of green and only turn pinkish red at the bottom of the leaves.

They are indeed tricky little critter to take care off. I never had problem keeping shrimp alive while I was in south wales but ever since I've been in stock I just failed miserably. I can't even keep japonica shrimp alive in my tank. I've tried about 60 CRS at the moment and they all died...

what happened the the CRS then? Kicked the bucket?

Clark, nice shrimp you've got there. Been trying to source this myself for a while. However, the CRS you are getting is not as high grade as you think they might be. The grading doesn't depend just on the red banding pattern, it also depends on the intensity of the white and red band. S grade...

Think the amount of light will be slightly on the low side. Be prepared to take time for the tank to fill out.

dumped in the spare tank soaking away. Don't have space for wood in this new tank setup. lol

Bridgemere garden world I think. I've been cranking up the CO2 and the ferts in the tank. It's been 2 weeks now the tank been up and running and not a single trace of algae, not even the GDA or GSA on the glass and that was even before the otos and SAE was added! The plant growth has been quite...

Unfortunately I need to scrape the tank before it matures as I need to move into my new apartment. Most of the stem plants didn't survive the transfer very well as they were kinda neglect about 2 weeks prior to the transfer and has got covered in algae quite badly. anyway decided to go to TGM...

dracena is only a marsh plant. It won't last long in your tank unless you let the leaves grows above the water line.

might be able to give you some stems in a few week time once I've done my prunning. My new tank is pack with stems. In fact I've got 2 pots of spare pogostemon stellatus, 2 pot of limnophila aromatica, 1 pot of java fern and 1 pot of HM here with me. Could sell it to you cheap if you want. £15...

There is no link I'm afraid. It's a seller on APC. You can search for his post in APC under manzanita wood and they are all imported from the US so the postage is quite expensive. Too bad I've agreed to sell the rest of the wood to john.

Will post a few more pictures in the next 2 weeks or so I've just removed the plants so it will take a while to fill it up. Once it's a little grown then I will post a picture. The HC and UG has let me down.... They are so slow to grow! I got mine from aquatics-online and it cost me 70 quid...

Just bought a tetra tex 1200 for this tank! Got it today and was absolutely speechless. This is one of the best design external filter I've ever seen. Sturdy built, elegantly designed, came complete with filter media and last but not least a 2 feet long spray bar! The control on the inlet and...

They do originate from the same focus point but then the rotala and the piece of wood in front has obscure the the base of the wood making it looks like it's a separate piece. I can't move it now as the rest of the wood would stumble over.... will have to try to hide it with plants

Mine is nothing compare to those of you guys. Nothing to chuffed about. can't wait for the tank to mature and take a final picture.

Yikes I think I better slow down the CO2 a little bit. that's what the fish are showing.... found all 6 just 5 minutes ago. Thank god for that

sigh.... Luckily I upgraded my Co2 tank to 10l bottle or else it wouldn't even last a week with the rate I'm using it. And stupid me for thinking that 48w wasn't enough for this tank and spent another 50 quid upgrading it to 96w. thank god I didn't purchase that arcadia lighting kit or else I...

After looking at my photos I really think that the plant with a tinge of red has not achieve it's contrast effect that I would have hope for. I would probably change the Pogostemon stellatus to rotala macandra. And the crypts are looking as if they will form a wall and distract the focus from...

I was just trying out different setting on my camera and found a very cool widescreen feature on it. Just thought I show everybody a little picture of what my tank is like at the moment. The plant grow is still not as quickly as I wished but They are growing alright. As you can see the crypt has...

yeah I've moved it near the diffuser, opposite the diffuser, under bushes close to substrate. It's still yellow. The moment I change to the other tank I have with no Co2 injection, it turn blue

I'm measuring the dry powder using electronic scales to make up solution and using chuck calculator and aquaticplantcentral fertilator, I dose the tank and it comes up with those figures. So drop checker is only valid if you have low-moderate lighting tank? I've tweak my lighting down by half...

The plant has started to grow quite quickly within the last few days and I think it will start growing very rapidly soon. Possibly now that the roots seems to be growing out of everywhere from the stems. Thanks for your explanation clive but I seemed to get more and more confused over the CO2...

didn't realise the goldfish bowl was actually the name of the place. I was wondering that sam is setting up a tank, why on earth he called it a goldfish bowl....

Nice tank sam! Where did you get the denerle plants from? Do they sell it online or something? That bolbitis do look very impressive. how much did you pay for them?

But surely if the plant is using all the CO2 there will be less Co2 in the water and the drop checker should have indicated that shouldn't it? My drop checker is always on the verge of Green/yellow even when the lights are off and that should mean that there is plenty of Co2 in the tank right...

Well I never see pearling in my tank for some reason. don't know what's gone wrong here. I will only get pearling if I put the CO2 diffuser away from the filter inlet. If it's under the filter inlet, it get suck up into the filter and dissolve but no pearling. I don't think the previous method...

well I've got so called fast growing plants but I don't them being fast growing plants at all... Most of the plant came from my previous tank and they are pretty much submerged. Didiplis diandra, pogostemon stellatus, HC, UG, Crypt balansae, limnophila aromatica, rotal rotundifolia and Blyxa...

haven't started using remineralised water as yet. they are filling my storage tank as we speak. but I'm going just remineralised them with salt i.e. CaSO4, MgSO4, trace mix, KH2SO4 etc. I can't siphon that algae off. it's stuck so much to the plant that if I siphon it the whole plant just came...

Things not looking so good so far. The plants are growing way slower than I anticipated despite the high light, EI dosing and adequate stable CO2. Algae has been growing at a rate that I can't cope with. this is the first time I'm having problem with this kinda algae. So far no other algae...

I think when the plant starts growing in the misalignment of the two pieces of wood will mostly be hidden by the plant. Great tank. Love it all. Well all except for the bit of wood in front that seemed to point upwards. It's too obvious. Kinda pull the centre of focus towards that branch rather...

Got my RO kit today! Love it! Too bad the pipe system in this house is all hidden behind the wooden plank. I had to squeeze in the small aperture to get to the cold water pipe and fit it just to realise later when I need to tighten the nut, my wrench was too big to fit in the place. Picture to...

3.50 per pot of p. helferi? £2.50 per pot of Hc? That's a bargain! Where on earth did you get that from? And those plant looks lush as well!

Re: Superman's First Planted Tank It will recover. Just takes a few weeks to adapt to the new water and it will throw off new shoots again. The leaves that melted wouldn't grow back miraculously though. lol

Re: Superman's First Planted Tank The crypt is probably just melting down due to sudden change in enviroment. Or it could have been easily bruised during packing and delivering (which can't be helped) and now it's kinda showing up. Lots of delicate stem plants suffer the same when I rescape my...

Does looks like it. Need time to tell if the method is working. Hopefully everything turns out alright

arghhhh now I'm gutted. for the same price I could have get a 4 stage filter! when you said 2nd membrane do you actually mean like a second set or RO unit and just connecting the waste to the inlet of the second unit to be filter again?

Nice redmoor wood and stones. The stone on the right looks kinda out of place and might benefit from some rearrangement. I suggest that the redmoor wood goes somewhere in the middle with stones scattered around them to similate the feel of a stump of wood getting stuck on rock banks while...

What kinda algae are those? I have something similar in my tank but they are very little like a strand or two and they are normally left over organic stuff that I didn't manage to get hold of during water change such as floating leaves etc. I've never seen an algae like that before to be honest...

Well just decided to take the plunge and buy a 50 GPD reverse osmosis unit. I think I'm going to stick with the needle clamp method as it looks much easier than it is. It's still a little scary as I still can't find the main water supply shut off in my house. It better not leak or else I...

Cheers Lisa! You're an angel!

Re: Superman's First Planted Tank I was going to say the same thing. This scape pretty much feels like a fusion between the demo tank from TGM and george 120cm. I can't wait for it to grow out. considering the fact there is anubias and crypt in the tank I think it will take a good 6 months...

Clive, you really deserve the nick cegipaedia. You left me in awe everytime I see your posting. Totally agreed with clive in terms of the dosing method but considering that the fact that lisa you are doing a busy course,there might be an alternative of dosing less frequently and just dumping a...

Don't you have to drill a hole in the in coming water supply and another hole in the out going drain and plumb the whole thing. I'm not even sure how to shut the main water supply off in this house! Does anyone has any step by step instruction with picture how to plumb an RO unit? I've been...

I could get a cheap source of RO unit but the thing is that I live in a rented accomodation and I don't I can install it in this place. Unless someone is willing to install it for me, I'm more than happy to pay for the price of the unit. lol. Gareth, you listening? :roll:

I've done that before. I'm using prime and I'm using 3 times the recommended dose and still the shrimp died. I think it only binds the metal temporarily and then eventually it will release it. Hehe well at least I managed to keep all my amano alive. I might try using one tank with just pure Ro...

yeah I lost a lot of snails too surprisingly. Our water is loaded with calcium but no magnesium in it. The whole stoke on trent and the nearby area is supply by the severn water supply and you can get a full report on the water parameter online. yeah that's pretty much what I was doing, cleaning...

Re: New 60x30x30 cm "Déjà, beaucoup de fois avant". Yeah I came back that day and realised that you haven't taken the diffuser! but I don't understand why you need this diffuser when you've already got a better one running there? Surely a rhinox 2000 is better than a simple nano diffuser.

Yeah it's definitely something in our water. i don't know any other place that has tap water with nitrate of 50 ppm! I know that poor packaging sometimes results in shrimp arrived alive but then takes week to die but the shrimp was looking alright when they were in my tank and then they started...

Re: James3200s 6.5x2x2' planted tank any idea where you will getting the discus from? and what size they're gonna be?