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BFG: bro, yup I agree with you. TDS only measures how pure the water is and does not tells you what are the impurities in the water.
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Actually, the use of TDS meter on the tank water doesn't make sense in my opinion. I could be wrong though but I wish to be enlightened. The TDS meter measure stuff in the water column BUT DOES NOT tells you what are the parameter in the water column. It's akin to your car fuel gauge showing a percentage of fuel in the fuel tank but you do not know what type of fuel is in it, it would contain water too but you won't know it as it does not tells you. Also, the reading that you get would not tell you anything else as you may not have a comparable result. Your TDS level of 325 would not be the same with another tank of the same reading level of TDS 325 as your tank water might have a different composition of parameter that the other tank has but both are the same tds level.
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BFG: bro, yup I agree with you. TDS only measures how pure the water is and does not tells you what are the impurities in the water.
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I suspect this is why some hobbyist are having problem keeping those shrimp species from Indonesia. A TDS meter does not help them in anyway. Someone is quietly smiling his way to the bank with the spike sale of the TDS meter.
If you've learnt, teach, if you have, give.
Don't walk behind me as I might not lead, don't walk in front of me as I might not follow. Walk beside me, as my friend.
Mohamad Rohaizal is my name. If it's too hard, use BFG. I don't mind.
Thanks for the ebay link. I surfed around a bit, and found out that TDS meter is useful for shrimp tanks. You are intending to put some in, right? I tried my hands with red shrimps. None survived. My platies ate them. And I think the liquid fertilizers were not good for the shrimps.Originally Posted by kohanson
flick: I went to read about the reactor and I think I won't go with it. Don't want to have additional equipments added to the tank. Not sure if I can hit 27 degrees, maybe I can give it a try. During the haze period, my tank could only reach 29 degrees and evaporation rate was really high.
The ebay link is here for the TDS meter. It cost me less than 10 dollars and I also tested my tap water and my drinking water,http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item...obalID=EBAY-SG
With my fan at 24/7, I top up 1 pail (approx. 13-14L) every 4 days. I have some modular type furniture that I can stack up next to my tank, so I just put my pail of water on top of the furniture pieces, and siphon the water from the pail into my tank. It really beats scooping. Saves a bit of time too, while it's siphoning, I go about cleaning debris from water surface.
BFG: Yup, probably the TDS is more for a shrimp tank.
flick: Yup I have 50 malaya shrimps and 20 sakura shrimps in my tank. The rummy nose tetra are quite aggressive towards my shrimp and I saw them nipping at one of the shrimps' tail this morning
anson that the problem of wanting planted tank and keeping fish. those tetra will always hungry so they will go after the shrimp. If you start over feed those tetra, you might dirty the water.
sad right. it not easy to mix them to perfect.
With 3ft size, those amount of shrimp are too little in my view.
Is your algae under control yet? I hope it is under control or reducing.
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Yah bro, not easy to balance to have tetra and shrimpsI switched off the filter for about half an hour during dosing.Got to monitor and probably do another spot dose tomorrow. Yah 50 Malaya shrimps and 40 hiding in behind the drift wood and plants. The rest only come out when my moonlight is on from 1130pm-12 midnight.
Some updates on my tank.
The glosso continue to carpet and I have added in some glosso to both side of the tank as they are quite bare. HC seems to be floating around as my substrate is not the powder type and they might not be rooting properly. Rotala green and the other one with red tips continue to grow fast! After dosing excel every 2-3 days, BBA has slowed down. Spot dosing caused some algaes to turn white and mini fissiden turned light brown
My future plans are to replace the back java ferns with rotala and tall plants. Below is a video update of the tank.
http://youtu.be/bFOWZCIB2nU
nice tank!
Dredshere, thanks!
Some updates on my bucephalandra:
Blue centipede has grown submersed leafs. I have trim off 2/3 of the emersed leaf.
Before:
After:
Lamandau Purple is flowering!
Before
After
Unfortunately, my Alamanda Dark has dropped all its leafs and the rhizome has turned brown. I am trying to revive it and has trim off a little bit of its rhizome. Hope it will grow back again.
Some updates on my tank.
Did some rescaping. Added in 1 pack of ADA amazonia to make the slope at the back. Spread out all my rotala around the back of tank. Added in 6 packs of dirrent plants bought from seaview but not sure what are those. I suspect 1 of them is camboba. Glosso has carpeted nicely around the tank. The left portion still need sometime to spread.
Hi bro, may I know how did you get to plant your glosso nicely. I tried to plant mine and it's really a pain to get its fine little roots entrench in my substrate.Some updates on my tank.
Did some rescaping. Added in 1 pack of ADA amazonia to make the slope at the back. Spread out all my rotala around the back of tank. Added in 6 packs of dirrent plants bought from seaview but not sure what are those. I suspect 1 of them is camboba. Glosso has carpeted nicely around the tank. The left portion still need sometime to spread.
Beautiful setup
Hi bro, the initial process was quite back breaking as I planted each glosso one by one, ie 2 leaves with abit of roots and runners. The glosso is buried into the soil and left with 1/2 of the leaves exposed. Took me about 1-2 hours but the effort pays off. The other thing is after I started pumping in CO2 at 3bps and with strong lightings, the glosso started to spread. You can almost see new leaves every 3 days and I can see the runners grow daily.
Are your plants affected after you add a new pack of soil? Like plants starting to melt or sort?
can't wait to see your rotalas. they should grow very well with your lights.
Not really. All plants are still intact. I change about 30% of the water after adding in half pack and 20% the next day. Sadly, the malaya shrimps were affected as 4 jump out from the tank during the night after I added the soil. I added half a pack 1 week apart as previously, when my tank was filled with CRS and sakura shrimps, I added in 1.5 pack of ADA soil and the shrimps continue to die around 5-10 daily for about 2 weeks. It was a disaster as I realised the soil releases ammonia which is good for new tanks.
flick: for my rotala, especially the red ones, they are bending towards the substrate. Not sure why. Hmm.
Maybe lights too strong..? Or there's an alternate light source when your lights are not switched on..?
I suspect could be because the outlet for my water is pointing at the back of the rotala's direction. No direct light source as my tank is in the middle of my living room and it is quite dark if I do not switch on the lights.
very nice...!!
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