Hi all,
I am pretty new to here so I think i would just share my current tank to start with.
I am hoping that this could go well and in the future I could add in a betta fish.
So here are some Spec:
tank Size : Yiding 45cm*30cm*27cm
Filtration: Eheim aqua compact 60 350LPH
Lighting : Opnova 360 turning on at 1030 and off at 2100 - gonna reduce a bit
Co2: on and off with the light around 2 bps at the moment but reducing to 1 from tomorrow. reason will state in below
heater: Newa Therm Eco 50 W
Substrate: Aquaworkds Aqua Soil (Slightly Acidic)
hard scape:
drift wood
lava stone
Plants: (for those that i can find the English name)
Limnophila sessiliflora
Java Fern “windelov”
echinodorus amazonicus
Rotala rotundifolia var. gontin
sagittaria lancifolia
cyperus helferi
plant on driftwood :
Anubias barteri var. nana(mini)
lifestock:
none at the moment, hoping to add a betta in the future
I am trying to do a fishless cycle at the moment because I worried that in the future the betta wont be able to live with those "survivors" that lived through the fish cycle process and i really dont have space to do another tank to put them in.
so my tank have been running for like roughly 1 week, I test the water and found that its kinda low at the moment (usually between 5 or 6 ish), I want the tank ph to be around 6 to 7 so it provided a more neutral or slightly acidic for the fish in the future. I am trying to figure out the reason why the ph go down so fast and I am suspecting that it could be the CO2 amount and acid release from the hardscape. I was doing almost 2dps in before or even more to be honest and i think that could be bit too much for my tank, so i decide to down it to 1 dps to see if that will help. Also gonna do a 10% daily water change as well. I am using tap water but i will leave them in a bucket overnight so the chlorine will dissolve (not sure if thats the right term to use), but by doing that I think I will need to extend my cycle time?
for my plant, i notice that quite a few of them are getting brown and melting a bit, is that normal ? do i just leave them in and let them do their thing ?
I hope I did include enough detail in this thread for you guys to understand my situation at the moment and i will greatly appreciate with tips and suggestions 🙂 Thanks!
I am pretty new to here so I think i would just share my current tank to start with.
I am hoping that this could go well and in the future I could add in a betta fish.
So here are some Spec:
tank Size : Yiding 45cm*30cm*27cm
Filtration: Eheim aqua compact 60 350LPH
Lighting : Opnova 360 turning on at 1030 and off at 2100 - gonna reduce a bit
Co2: on and off with the light around 2 bps at the moment but reducing to 1 from tomorrow. reason will state in below
heater: Newa Therm Eco 50 W
Substrate: Aquaworkds Aqua Soil (Slightly Acidic)
hard scape:
drift wood
lava stone
Plants: (for those that i can find the English name)
Limnophila sessiliflora
Java Fern “windelov”
echinodorus amazonicus
Rotala rotundifolia var. gontin
sagittaria lancifolia
cyperus helferi
plant on driftwood :
Anubias barteri var. nana(mini)
lifestock:
none at the moment, hoping to add a betta in the future
I am trying to do a fishless cycle at the moment because I worried that in the future the betta wont be able to live with those "survivors" that lived through the fish cycle process and i really dont have space to do another tank to put them in.
so my tank have been running for like roughly 1 week, I test the water and found that its kinda low at the moment (usually between 5 or 6 ish), I want the tank ph to be around 6 to 7 so it provided a more neutral or slightly acidic for the fish in the future. I am trying to figure out the reason why the ph go down so fast and I am suspecting that it could be the CO2 amount and acid release from the hardscape. I was doing almost 2dps in before or even more to be honest and i think that could be bit too much for my tank, so i decide to down it to 1 dps to see if that will help. Also gonna do a 10% daily water change as well. I am using tap water but i will leave them in a bucket overnight so the chlorine will dissolve (not sure if thats the right term to use), but by doing that I think I will need to extend my cycle time?
for my plant, i notice that quite a few of them are getting brown and melting a bit, is that normal ? do i just leave them in and let them do their thing ?
I hope I did include enough detail in this thread for you guys to understand my situation at the moment and i will greatly appreciate with tips and suggestions 🙂 Thanks!