My planted tanks

[yangqian]

Well, I posted my pictures in the Invertebrates forum but I thought I would share them here as well.

Had these tanks set up and running for 4 months now.

I had these tanks custom made and placed on my study table in a L shaped configuration.

Tank 1:

100cm x 20cm x 30cm

inhabitants: various neocaridina and 5 corydoras pygmaeus and a red lizard whiptail.




Tank 2:

135cm x 20cm x 30cm

substrate: ADA Amazonia

inhabitants: caradina denerlli and tangerine tiger shrimps. 5 ottos and 1 royal whiptail.

[yangqian]

The inhabitants

[yangqian]

View from my bed.

[Oliverpool]

Beautiful!

This is actually in your room? Do you run co2 and a chiller?

[ivantan]

nice set up.

[yangqian]

Beautiful!

This is actually in your room? Do you run co2 and a chiller?

Yes. In my room.

I have co2 running but no chiller. My room has no direct sunlight, so temperature ranges around 24-25 degree celsius.

[limyw]

impressive! can I ask where u made the tanks?

[Shadow]

nice tank, I saw staghorn algae on your leaf

[yangqian]

nice tank, I saw staghorn algae on your leaf

I'm not sure what algae is that buy my ottos do not seem to eat them. Currently I'm manually removing them. Tough job though. Any better recommendations?

[yangqian]

impressive! can I ask where u made the tanks?

I can't remember exactly what the uncle's workshop is called, but it's located within Pasir Ris Farmway, opposite Commando Camp.

[rafimo]

wow! nice....

[Fireball]

Nice tanks you got there. What kind of lightings do you have? Looks like LED. Can you share some pictures of the lights?

[smk]

nice set up ...

[hydrophyte]

Those are lovely.

[Marlinsons]

Nice,

Seems that the lights are set to 1 side. Are the plants going towards the lights then?

[yangqian]

Nice tanks you got there. What kind of lightings do you have? Looks like LED. Can you share some pictures of the lights?

Yes those are leds. I custom made 2 glass beams to attach my own leds on them. 3 rows of leds from Ikea, as I want to have some ambience light when I am viewing them. other than that I got another strong white led from LFS from the regular plant growth routine.

[yangqian]

Nice,

Seems that the lights are set to 1 side. Are the plants going towards the lights then?

I positioned the lights towards the left side of the tank because the left side is more 'plant intensive' and the right side is nearer to the lights due to the slope.

[loohc]

Hey, u keeping sulawesi shrimps. Not any easy job. How long your sulawesi shrimps in your tanks. I try before but not sucessful. Its needs high ph and some others parameters into consideration. Nice set up.

[yangqian]

Hey, u keeping sulawesi shrimps. Not any easy job. How long your sulawesi shrimps in your tanks. I try before but not sucessful. Its needs high ph and some others parameters into consideration. Nice set up.

I keep them at PH 7 and GH 6-7, temperature around 25-26.5 degree celsius. I try to maintain at this parameter because any higher it will affect my plants.

The shrimps have been in the tank for close to 3 months now. 1 just got berried. One thing I have realised that most captive bred shrimps are more receptive towards a wider range of water parameters now. Myth or not I am not sure but some breeders mentioned that GH 1-3 is the best route for breeding. I am lazy to bring the GH down to 3 so I am just going to maintain it the way it is now.

[marle]

i love your tank concept!