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    Reborn of a neglected tank

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    Was not able to up keep my tank for quite a while, which cause the whole tank to be overwelmed by algae and stuff.

    I have decided to clean it up abit and was deciding what type of tank I wanted. I like the Iwugami style setup but understood that this tank needs more experience and more time consuming to maintain it at the optimal. But nevertheless I like the serene feeling that it gives you.

    Hence I'm gonna try it anyway. My goal for this tank is to keep things to minimal.

    Juz two types of grass and probably three species of fishes.



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    Upgraded to an Eheim
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    Re: Reborn of a neglected tank

    Very nice setup bro, i like the placement of the rocks. Is this a high-tech setup (CO2 injection / Chiller) and what plants did you use?

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    Hi, no co2 and chiller. I have success to grow the Monte Carlo without co2 but a weekly or twice a week dosage of excel in my nano tank. Hence I wanna try if I can do it here.

    Mine mainly Monte Carlo and drawf hair grass.

    Thanks bro. Let's update each other progress as we have quite similar setup.

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    Nice, i like how simple your setup is! Mine is nothing like yours, full high-tech setup haha. Yes, let's do this!

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    Hi, no lah.. mine is juz make do, anyway this is juz a start, I hope to keep it so called low tech, but I believe excel still a must. Let's see how long it takes to carpet. What co2 system u using? Actually I do have a co2 system, not using it for a long while liao.

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    Deployed 3 Amano shrimps to start help to clean up the dead plants
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    Re: Reborn of a neglected tank

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    Deployed 3 Amano shrimps to start help to clean up the dead plants
    Nice! I love the very clear shots of the shrimp. They appear to be more interested in your algae wafer tho

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    Haha.. true true.. not much algae for them to feed on at that point of time, put the algae wafer to distract them from uprooting my plants

    Quote Originally Posted by Fujisasuke View Post
    Nice! I love the very clear shots of the shrimp. They appear to be more interested in your algae wafer tho

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    A couple of changes to the original idea. Think I'm too impatient to wait for the plants to grow, hence i start the co2 system again... also cycling of the tank took too long.. in the end i use the seachem stability since it's on offer now and use it to accelerate the cycling of the tank.

    Currently the ammonia is down to 0 after 5 days of using stability, but nitrite is very high now, juz did a 20% water change.

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    Fishes deployed!
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    Nitrite 5ppm and you added fish.................

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    Its ok now
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    Day 18th, sad to see my DHG dying day by day, the one of the left is almost being uprooted. Probably gonna cut it away tonight in case it develop fungus. MC is growing ok, but slow, some patches are growing upwards, will be trimming them to make them abit flatter to the substrate.

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    Re: Reborn of a neglected tank

    One moment i also shocked you added live stocks with such water parameter... Then i saw seachem stability. Nice and clean setup

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    The fishes are healthy and swimming happily

    Quote Originally Posted by TTerry View Post
    One moment i also shocked you added live stocks with such water parameter... Then i saw seachem stability. Nice and clean setup

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    Quote Originally Posted by SantaMonicaHelp View Post
    Wow, your tank is so cool and clean!

    -Paola
    Cool thanks!

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    Day 21th. Was trying to un-tug a bloodworm from a drawf hairgrass, even the slightest pull actually could uproot the hairgrass. I think it’s probably the substrate size i’m using is unsuitable for planting drawf hair grass. Clean up the grass and try to tuck it deep into the substrate again. Hope it will eventually survive.

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    Aglae already started to grow, added 3 oto fish to reduce the algae.
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