Simple yet looks natural.....the Elegant blue ones look great....
Yeah, i'm looking out for red variants too, hopefully can add some to the tank soon.
The 2 yellow balls are freshwater golden clams.
Simple yet looks natural.....the Elegant blue ones look great....
Hi UA, may I ask where u bought the bucephalandra elegant blue from?
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Ludwigia glandulosa / Eleocharis acicularis 'Mini' / Rotala wallichii / Cyperus Rotundus / Rotala Sp. Sunset / Rotala Sp. Green
Cardinal Tetra / Rummynose Sp. Platinium / L183 Stralight Bristlenose Pelco / Nirate Snail / Yamato Shrimps
Oh OK. .. then good luck to me searching then...
Is sp.velvet blue and elegant blue the same?
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Ludwigia glandulosa / Eleocharis acicularis 'Mini' / Rotala wallichii / Cyperus Rotundus / Rotala Sp. Sunset / Rotala Sp. Green
Cardinal Tetra / Rummynose Sp. Platinium / L183 Stralight Bristlenose Pelco / Nirate Snail / Yamato Shrimps
That i'm also not sure... all these different trade names flying about are really confusing, i mainly base my plant IDs on what the sellers label them as or closest ID from online photos.
Until now i still have bucephalandra from separate batches that were labelled as the same variants, yet when kept in the same tank after a few months, they grow out and look different. I guess many times alot of the plants are given "best guess" labels.
my buceps are tied to small lava rocks and i have a sand substrate. did u also bury the roots in the sand?
Mine had the roots partially buried in the sand with the rhizomes above the substrate, that seems to work well. Its more for aesthetics anyways (since its sand substrate), as in such setups the roots take in nutrients mostly from the water column.
What fishes did you add in eventually and how is the clams doing? What do you feed the clams. Hope you can take some updated pic of this beautiful tank.
Admiring my Fishes calm the Beast within me
I didn't keep this tank for long as the plants were eventually bought and traded with other hobbyists.
As for the clams, i fed them with powdered foods (ie. crushed pellets and wafers) which i administer with a pipette near to their "intake" mouths. The longest i kept such clams in a tank was up to a year or so, but they didn't really grow much during that period. I guess our aquarium tanks are probably too "clean" for clams to sustain food intake to grow long term, unless they are constantly fed alot in a mature large tank.
It's been a while since i posted up new tank projects, all the ones posted here before have been changed to new setups a few times since.
My latest setups are all very low maintenance tanks with mainly moss, nothing fancy. Currently i mostly just try keeping different types of fishes in community tanks. Not much time to maintain planted tanks nowadays.
Sustainable tanks do have little algae, thus minimising the time needed to do maintainance than most planted tanks. Having the correct plant selection helps in the long run. Soil with high CEC (volcanic ash) instead of the popular Ada soil is more favoured, since ADA soil has been known to break down into mulm just under 12-14 months of use.
Opposite to what UA is doing, I've stopped using traditional low maintenance, slow growers plants like moss, ferns, anubias in my tank. I've since replaced them with lower light requirements stem plants like wisteria, palustris, bacopa, etc, because in my opinion, it takes less time to cut, trim, uproot, propagate these plants than separating, tying and gluing moss, ferns or anubias to rocks and drift wood. Having lower light means the stem plants grow slower. I only trim them once during my monthly water change nowadays.
Hi Urban Aquaria,
Any updates on your tank? Also please post more often on your blog!!
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That's a nice setup, may I where did you get your tank from or where can I find low-profile tanks in Singapore?
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So much changes after very long didnt came here to visit this forum.
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