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    My 3ft aqua-plant landscape - 3rd project

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    Tank Specification;

    Tank size: 36 x 18 x 18”
    Lighting: 4 x Arcadia 18W FL, and 1 x 36W PLL.

    DV bacterial bottom ground gravel substrate (10%), brownish volcano substrate (15%), Tormet (5%), remaining ADA Amazonia I & Africana from previous 2nd project (estimate 55% both), lastly top up with Holland sand (15%).

    Hardware underneath the tank: - Under gravel plate, 3 aerations air stone, and “JBL” gravel heating cable.

    Bottom fertilizers: - Florapol, Ferrotabs, DV bottom activator.

    Routing fertilizers: - “Seachem” iron, Potassium and Comprehensive Plant Supplement.
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    Impressive HC growth! Really neat. Do you have a full tank shot?
    Maurice Cheong
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    nice! would like to see a full tank shot! well done!
    -clint- ~apisto keepers unite!~

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    Quote Originally Posted by zenscape View Post
    Impressive HC growth! Really neat. Do you have a full tank shot?
    Quote Originally Posted by iwishweallcouldwin View Post
    nice! would like to see a full tank shot! well done!
    Maurice Cheong & iwishweallcouldwin. Thank for your compliment, BTW the Rotala “green” sp is not growing well so the right side is rather empty look though.
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    may i know what is the plant at the foreground? is it planted in the sand?

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    Like the HC look, you may need to increase the light intensity at the side so that the HC can cover the whole foreground.

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    Quote Originally Posted by jason6142004 View Post
    may i know what is the plant at the foreground? is it planted in the sand?
    The plant is HC, grown on Holland sand.

    Quote Originally Posted by dwgi32 View Post
    Like the HC look, you may need to increase the light intensity at the side so that the HC can cover the whole foreground.
    Thanks, advice noted.

    Actually some space constraint there in the hood to fill in another light, but I will try to figure that out.

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    The background plants look really nice and neat. I love it!
    ( sorry i don't know the name of the plant ).

    Does the back ground get out of shape real fast? Meaning you would need to constantly trim it to get it to stay below water surface?
    Bern still suck at Water Chemistry + Plant Names

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    Quote Originally Posted by Burnz View Post
    The background plants look really nice and neat. I love it!
    ( sorry i don't know the name of the plant ).

    Does the back ground get out of shape real fast? Meaning you would need to constantly trim it to get it to stay below water surface?
    Thanks, Burnz. The <<< side is Hydrocotyle Sibthorpiodes, the center-back is Hydrocotyle Leucocephala; - these plants need to be trim frequently to save the foreground “HC” plant, or they’ll shade up the whole foreground within 1 ˝ month. The “HL” has been with me 5 years since my 1st planting project. So i have lot of "Kamm chain" with it, now i treat it as "algae interceptor".

    Some enlargements here.
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    I just took a look at your lights setup and that's really a lot of lights for a smaller than 1 feet cube. Do you have problems with algae?

    BTW love the HC lawn, seems to be filling in nicely.

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    Quote Originally Posted by hc rotala View Post
    The plant is HC, grown on Holland sand.

    sorry but what is HC??

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    Quote Originally Posted by rebbot View Post
    I just took a look at your lights setup and that's really a lot of lights for a smaller than 1 feet cube. Do you have problems with algae?
    BTW love the HC lawn, seems to be filling in nicely.
    Algae problem? no, I have few major rules to prevents algae attack, one of that is employ a substantial huge canister filter (20 liters filter volume power by 2 x 1100 L/H pump) to maintained the artificial equilibrium BIO-ECO system within the tank.

    BTW, my tank is 3 footer of size, not the cube.

    Thus I still plan to fitting another 36W PLL at the >>> side.


    Quote Originally Posted by jason6142004 View Post
    sorry but what is HC??
    Hemianthus Callitrichoides. (one of the thin plant specimen suit for foreground aqua landscape)

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    Quote Originally Posted by hc rotala View Post
    Hemianthus Callitrichoides. (one of the thin plant specimen suit for foreground aqua landscape)
    thanks!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by hc rotala View Post
    Algae problem? no, I have few major rules to prevents algae attack, one of that is employ a substantial huge canister filter (20 liters filter volume power by 2 x 1100 L/H pump) to maintained the artificial equilibrium BIO-ECO system within the tank.

    BTW, my tank is 3 footer of size, not the cube.

    Oops, my apologies! I misread the unit. I keep thinking its 36cm by 18cm by 18cm when its inches.

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    Quote Originally Posted by hc rotala View Post
    Thanks, Burnz. The <<< side is Hydrocotyle Sibthorpiodes, the center-back is Hydrocotyle Leucocephala; - these plants need to be trim frequently to save the foreground “HC” plant, or they’ll shade up the whole foreground within 1 ˝ month. The “HL” has been with me 5 years since my 1st planting project. So i have lot of "Kamm chain" with it, now i treat it as "algae interceptor".

    No problem. I thought the background with all the layers was quite interesting. I tried using Hydrocotyle Sibthorpiodes ( i'm assuming the other species being the bigger one ) but they didn't do too well probably because the set up was quite new then. Maybe i'll give them a go again with my now rather settled 3-footer.

    oh yes,one more thing... "kamm chain" being??
    Bern still suck at Water Chemistry + Plant Names

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    Really very nice... is there a reason for not adding any fish?

    What's your temperature range?

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    Quote Originally Posted by rebbot View Post
    Oops, my apologies! I misread the unit. I keep thinking its 36cm by 18cm by 18cm when its inches.
    rebbot, it okay, that obvious, sometime we go rush a bit.

    Quote Originally Posted by Burnz View Post
    No problem. I thought the background with all the layers was quite interesting. I tried using Hydrocotyle Sibthorpiodes ( i'm assuming the other species being the bigger one ) but they didn't do too well probably because the set up was quite new then. Maybe i'll give them a go again with my now rather settled 3-footer.

    oh yes,one more thing... "kamm chain" being??
    "kamm chain" in Hokien means passionate (pls correct if i wrong, i don't know how to express it exactly), the HL being 5 years stay with me, so loyalty.

    Quote Originally Posted by Jervis View Post
    Really very nice... is there a reason for not adding any fish?

    What's your temperature range?
    Thanks you, Jervis. Thought those plants just blooming up recently, so at this stage i no longer worries about the Bio-load inside there, it's time to welcoming fishes.

    I rather waiting for a school of Silver Hatcher arrived. -

    Temperature:- 24.4 - 26.0 Celsius. The HC like this most..... the cool... ness....
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    How did you manage to maintain at such low temperature? Do you use a fan or a chiller?

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    wow... really nice setup. I wish I could do something like that.
    Cheers,
    Sean


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    Quote Originally Posted by Jervis View Post
    How did you manage to maintain at such low temperature? Do you use a fan or a chiller?
    Hi, Jervis, i do used a chiller (an oversize one, so less workload for the chiller).

    Only chiller could able to free someone mind out of hassle.
    High precision temperature control, less water top up schedule, and ignore ambient condition around inside the room.



    Quote Originally Posted by PlAnTaNoOb View Post
    wow... really nice setup. I wish I could do something like that.
    Thanks, Sean.

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