1 feet cube

**joydiv** · 19th Feb 2007, 12:15

Hi guys,

A week after set up.

Doing something simple, Japanese hairgrass, Mm and moss for background.

Comments welcomed.

**valice** · 19th Feb 2007, 14:04

OOOOOOooooo! Very nice. One week and the hairgrass covered the entire ground? Or you planted them? Must be back breaking if it is so.

**StanChung** · 19th Feb 2007, 14:48

Very nice and simple, hairgrass is very nice to use and a challenge to plant.
Really brightens the foreground. I'd put some small rocks to border the HG and MM at the base. Red lava rock may look good.

**juggler** · 19th Feb 2007, 14:51

Hey, very nice. Amazing progress after only one week. The hair grass looks so lush.

Is it a tank for fish or shrimps?

**joydiv** · 20th Feb 2007, 01:53

Had quite an amount of hairgrass to start with. Took a long time planting.

Blast the tank with lots of CO2 and fert. Did daily water changes and the growth was good. Better than expected.

Was actually looking for small rocks but couldn't find any so I made do with the pieces of bogwood.

Specs as follow

30 cm cube
ADA Africana Powder
ADA powersand S
72 watt T-5
CO2 3 -4 bps
EI method of dosing
Temp 26 - 28 degree
8 clown killies at the moment

Really like the result i get from using ADA, the only exception is downoi, I can never get it to grow on ADA substrate.

**benny** · 20th Feb 2007, 08:56

I like the simple set up.

What fishes are being consider for this tank? Would be interesting to see final result as well. Keep us posted.

Cheers,

**Wackytpt** · 20th Feb 2007, 09:59

What is the problem you faced with downoi?

**wasabi8888** · 20th Feb 2007, 10:35

Beautiful tank...

How do you manage to find a bogwood to fit a 1 feet cube tank? i looked for so long for my 2 ft and it's really hard to find a small one..

**Wackytpt** · 20th Feb 2007, 11:20

Hi Jeff,

Sometimes you just got to search around. You can try NA. HE do carries some small Bog wood.

Somtimes you might just need to saw the wood.

**genes** · 20th Feb 2007, 11:30

Or just buy the really branchy ones and break them up yourself.

**wasabi8888** · 20th Feb 2007, 12:35

ya... i just bought one from NA.. need to saw... been every where to search... damn hard to find....

**joydiv** · 20th Feb 2007, 16:15

Fishes - Considering either red ruby tetra or one of the boraras species.
The downoi always melt in my tank with ADA soil.
As for the driftwood, I cut them from larger pieces and place them in the tank. The mass of MM camouflage the fact that the wood is not a single piece.
Thanks for all the comments.