1ft Cube - Jungle Scape

[doylecolmdoyle]

Corys look to cute resting on the buce leafs.


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[doylecolmdoyle]

Updated FTS. Everyone seems happy, plants are going well after adding co2, buce has really picked up and looks a bit more colourful. Removed some of the Bolbitis at the back as I want to use in in my 60p

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[rusticdr]

Awesome work. Really great pics too. So do u do ei dosing now that u have co2. I have a nano but it seems to do better as low tech. When I add minimum ferts I start getting brown diatoms all over the glass. Pls shed some light.

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[doylecolmdoyle]

Awesome work. Really great pics too. So do u do ei dosing now that u have co2. I have a nano but it seems to do better as low tech. When I add minimum ferts I start getting brown diatoms all over the glass. Pls shed some light.

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Thanks with this tank I am dosing a all-in-one macro micro, it is a fairly weak fert looking at how much each 5ml dose increase NPK but suits low demanding plants ( the fert is actually sourced from a UK website, posted over to me in Australia)

Here are the specs taken from their website

Potassium Nitrate
Monopotassium Phosphate
Potassium Sulphate
Magnesium Sulphate Heptahydrate
Chelated Trace Elements

E300 Ascorbic Acid and E202 Potassium Sorbate are added to prevent mould and act as an antioxidant which enables the Macros and Micros to be combined.

Each 5ml dose adds:
1.5 ppm Nitrate
0.4 ppm Phosphate
1.6 ppm Potassium
0.2 ppm Magnesium

Instructions

• 30g 'All-in-One Complete Macros and Micros Fertiliser'
• 500ml of distilled water (or boiled then cooled water).
• Shake bottle to mix ingredients with the water.
• Dosing: 5ml of solution per 40 litres (daily).

I do find that the solution does go cloudy (precipitation maybe?) after a few weeks, lately I have been making the solution weaker (15g of fert mix to 500ml of distilled water) and this seems to be doing better.

 

[rusticdr]

So daily dosing. Almost like ei. Thanks a ton. It's a good mix and must be economical as it's in the dry form. How much lighting doing u use.. type and duration? Sorry for the trouble. Just trying to get an idea.

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[doylecolmdoyle]

Yes, dosing every day and weekly 50% water changes, the light is a 30cm Up Aqua LED, unsure what model, would just be low to medium light, I purchased the light and tank second hand awhile ago. I run the light for 5 hrs daily, the floating plants block alot of light also, so far no algae troubles.

 

[doylecolmdoyle]

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[doylecolmdoyle]

The buce has really taken hold of this tank, love watching the fish and shrimp feed in this tank.

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[rossjcooper]

Very nice, it certainly is a jungle

 

[doylecolmdoyle]

The jungle is getting thicker, slow growing plants and low light seem like a great combo, have not touched in the inside of this tank for months.

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[Tim Harrison]

Yep...that's definitely jungly, looks great

 

[doylecolmdoyle]

Took some photos today, the Male (more colourful?) CPDs didnt really want to come out, the big females where out and about with the pigmy corys buzzing around as usual.


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[G H Nelson]

Lovely.....nice pictures of the inhabitants!

 

[castle]

This may be just me, but the CPDs look a little deformed; I don't think this is your fault tho - more, intensive farming

 

[doylecolmdoyle]

This may be just me, but the CPDs look a little deformed; I don't think this is your fault tho - more, intensive farming

Really? I think some of the CPDs are pregnant in the photos, looking rather fat. I brought them from a fellow hobbyist more than 6 months ago, I have never noticed fry, I assume they are eating the eggs / fry.

 

[castle]

Ahh, it' not anything to be concerned about - yes, they definitely eat their fry. I've seen them do it. You have a lot of places for the fry to hide tho, so I wouldn't be so sure it's predatory. When they spawn it's fairly brutal, with males chasing down a female who is putting out eggs, followed by other non-alpha males eating the eggs - sigh.

I have a good amount of cpds (5 years+ old now), and none have the ridge at the back of the head, where the body starts as such, mine are much more danio like, and slender. Maybe I don't feed them enough.

 

[Aqua360]

@SinkorSwim

 

[SinkorSwim]

gorgeous looking tank, love the Marimo carpet - I wonder what kind of shrimp population have you got in there and what BPS CO2 are you dosing?

 

[doylecolmdoyle]

gorgeous looking tank, love the Marimo carpet - I wonder what kind of shrimp population have you got in there and what BPS CO2 are you dosing?

Thanks, not 100% sure how many shrimp, started with about 10-15 cherries and I see smaller shrimp every now and then, I guess the CPDs pick of really small shrimp so the population would have slowed down, I also have some native Darwin Algae Eating Shrimp, they need brackish water to develop so there population does not grow. At a guess I would says there could be up to 50 shrimp in the tank.

Co2 runs 24/7 at about 1 bubble every 2 seconds, PH sits at 6.8, will have to remeasure my KH to check what PPM of co2 I am at, drop checker basically stays lime green

 

[doylecolmdoyle]

No real changes here, ultimate low maintenance, never trimmed any plants in the tank, tho I should thin the frogbit out, its getting a little dark in the tank.

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