Week 1 - 22nd July
I started off with HC and dwarf Hair grass.
With all the informations and advises from AQ forumers, i decided to go with the following list of equipments.
To save cost, i bought some accessories from TB, hunt for pre loved equipments & compare prices from few LFS before buying
Tank - 60cm*45cm*45cm (Customized)
Cabinet - 60cm*45cm*90cm (Customized)
Filter - Eheim pro 3 2073 (Pre-loved) with Seachem matrix
Co2 injection - 3L, Ans regulator (Pre-loved) with Ista reactor
Light fixture - Chihiros RGB60 & Chihiros A series 601
Fan - Ans 3000
Substrate - ADA soil
DSM started on 22nd July..... To be continue...
Week 1 - 22nd July
I started off with HC and dwarf Hair grass.
Week 2 - 29th July
I added Staurogyne repens.
Week 4
My HC still browning, DHG mostly melt, except the 2 bunches at the back which were further away from the light. S. repens is easy plant, doing great.
Decided to lower my light fixture to 3cm and increased my light duration to 12hrs
Week 5
I pull out all the melted DHG... HC seem to be stable but still not much progress. S. repens doing great.
Lowered my light fixture to the lowest, increase light duration to 14 hrs.
Week 6
Lowering the light fixture really helps to improve the PAR to substrate. Start to see better progress on my HC, S.repens still doing great. I have a bunch of bucephalandra (dont know what species), so just experiment it with DSM
Forgot to take photo on week 7
Starting of week 6, after lowering my light fixture height, HC was making progress, but some of my S.repens started to turn a bit yellow and melt on the edge of the leaves. (Can anyone advise please)
i decided to add another Chihiros A series to spend up my HC, since RGB60 wont be enough to cover the whole tank.
Week 8
Bit of browning here and there for my HC, but overall still ok. And trimmed off some of my S.repens. Surprisingly bucephalandra survived!
Just setup my filter and co2 yesterday, looking for plants and FINALLY... Ready to flood the tank =)
Week 9 ready to flood!
Hygrophila pinnatifida
Ludwigia palustris
Rotala rotundifolia
Staurogyne repens
Alternanthera reineckii 'Mini'
Hemianthus Callitrichoides
If you clumb up your hair glass like this, I think it will melt and die. With hair grass, you may need to separate to a 7-10 strands then plant. I use only 1 pot of Tropica 1-2 grow for my 3 FT tank.
The instructions on the tropica 1-2 grow isn't the best. If I remembered clearly, they ask people to cut into 6 clumps then plant. For my case, I only bought 1 box so had to split the cuttings into 40 parts, then planted them buffet style. I am using Gex inert volcanic soil and had to add Seachem root tabs as inert soil not as good as ADA aqua soil.
Flooded!!
Seachem
Flourish - 1ml
Iron - 2 ml
Potassium - 2 ml
Trace - 2 ml
I dosed half of the recommended dosage
Looks like the HC is spreading out nicely, bro!
Keep us updated on the progress!
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Hi, thanks. I intend to keep 2 schools of smaller fauna like rummy nose/ boraras species. Once my tank complete cycling, i will sent in a batch per week. this is my plan..
1st week (scout and commando haha)
1 x nerite snail
2 x amano
2nd week
2-3 x Otocinclus
My whole battalion of fire red shrimps
Meanwhile i will buy 1 school of rummy nose and quarantine for a week
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