ADA Green Cube (3rd attempt)

[iwishweallcouldwin]

quite an exciting thread to follow, all the best jervis! hope you'll be able to achieve you goal of making it to ADA 2008! jia you!

[Jervis]

hope you'll be able to achieve you goal of making it to ADA 2008! jia you!

Well... I will try my best lah! Will be able to tell in 4 weeks

[Jervis]

Filled the tank yesterday... the Lily Pipe is very interesting



Pix taken when the tank is still filling up...

Here's the interim layout... sorry for the disappointment guys... not much of a concept I suppose... my priority was:

1) To house some of the plants which were previously in my decommissioned 1ft cube. The driftwood with Java Moss almost determined the look of the tank

2) To add as many stem plants and fast growing plants I can for the initial cycle.

3) To use back my existing Ohko Rocks as they are beautiful

[fireblade]

more pictures!!! hehe

[Jervis]

I will stay away from HC for the time being as I do not have too much luck with them in previous setups... will cover the foreground with some existing Dwarf Hairgrass



So far I have:
1) Java Moss on driftwood
2) Nanas Petite
3) Blyxa Japonica
4) Dwarf Hairgrass
5) Unidentified red stem plant
6) Unidentified green/red sword plant
7) Unidentified green sword plant

50% Water change after 24 hours... tank is still cloudy



What you guys think?

I got a feeling the Hairgrass foreground will look quite interesting in 2 weeks (if they survived)

[fireblade]

so much difference from 1st picture with wood compare to the last one!!
now looks much better...
can show a picture of front shot?
btw, where do you get the rocks?

[Jervis]

so much difference from 1st picture with wood compare to the last one!!
now looks much better...
can show a picture of front shot?
btw, where do you get the rocks?

Will take some shots tomorrow... hopefully the water will clear up a bit.

Bought the rocks from NA... I might look for 1 small piece

[illumnae]

Will take some shots tomorrow... hopefully the water will clear up a bit.

should have stuck with the old substrate

[Jervis]

should have stuck with the old substrate

I'm not too disturbed by the cloudiness actually... let's give it another day

The cloudiness is also caused by the Bio Rio inside the canister filter... not just the substrate.

[fireblade]

even without waiting for the plants to grow, it looks like jungle liao..now, you make my hands itchy to rescape my tank.. :P

[Jervis]

even without waiting for the plants to grow, it looks like jungle liao..now, you make my hands itchy to rescape my tank.. :P

I want more plants to fight with any potential algae outbreak... will try to figure out the scaping once the tank settles

[EvolutionZ]

your thread is in my favourites now..
never did i seen a thread using full ADA equipments.. really envy you

[BFG]

I will stay away from HC for the time being as I do not have too much luck with them in previous setups... will cover the foreground with some existing Dwarf Hairgrass

HC and yamato are not a good combo to begin with.

[EvolutionZ]

BFG, why not? my HC are creeping well even with yamatos in my tank..

[BFG]

Newly planted HC will never have a chance against yamato as I have personally found out back then when a pot of HC cost nearly a blue note from Tropica. But when HC has a grip on the substrate and has grown in size, a yamato can't do much damage. Temperature also play a part in the growth of this creeping plant as well as good lighting and co2 addition. Your mileage may vary.

[EvolutionZ]

oh.. didn't know yamato can do such damage.. but well.. my HC went in the same day when my yamatos went in. seems like no damage made.. but they do damaged my chendol plant

[Jervis]

Thanks bros for sharing your bad experiences with Yamato... didn't know they can be such a pest Any other plants they prey upon?

[EvolutionZ]

they eat mosses if im not wrong.

[inimicus]

Hi Jervis

i realised that you're using the Arcadia Arcpod for lights. It's fluorescent tubes inside isn't it? Is it enough for the plants you're growing?

[hebi]

impressive! i cant wait to see pictures of the tank now.. haha