Low-tech (non-CO2) tanks post your pics!

[V31]

new one for my girlfriend



Tech specs:
volume : 30L
lighting : 2x 10W tubes
filter : external Eden501 (300L/Hr)
substrate : fujizuna (japanese volcanic sand)
deco : driftwood, rocks

BIO
Plants
- Microsorium pteropus sp. Windelow
- Echinodorus quadricostatus
- Hygrophylla ??
- Eleocharis parvulus
- Anubias barteri var. nana

Fish
- Paracheirodon axelrodi 9x
- Rasbora hengeli 5x
- Crossocheilus siamensis 2x
- Corydoras paleatus 1x

Invertebrates
- Caridina japonica 4x (3 more will come)
- some hidden snails maybe..

Picture taken after 4 days from setup.

[slacker04]

Great looking scapes..I can't wait to get my own low-tech tank going

[\LALA/]

This is my low tech scape. Still having fun buying new flora and populating it.

[psp1000]

My first low tech tank

1) hangon filter
2) moss
3) 5w clip light
4) no CO2, no fert
5) 10 cherries shrimps
6) black colour gravel

[TBoss]

Can anyone tell me where can I buy that ph tester on the right upper hand of this tank?

Set up my first planted tank set up for 2 months+. Super low tech.

Equipments
Five Plan Tank size 60x30x30
Jedo 505 Waterfall style Bio Filter
I-536 Cooling fan
Maqnum 2 E-Ballast PL Light 55W
Substrate : Some shiny black gravel
No soil no fert.

Flora
No idea just bought from LFS

Faunua
1 Oto
6 Yamato
20 + - Guppies

[aquaSynthesis]

Can anyone tell me where can I buy that ph tester on the right upper hand of this tank?

NA, SeaView, Y618

[d2sign]

C328 also have. But this can only last for half a year, get a proper test kit more pocket friendly.

[TBoss]

Thanks alot people

[bliss01]

Can anyone tell me where can I buy that ph tester on the right upper hand of this tank?

How does the ph tester works?

[troyz]

Office shrimp tank ... no CO2, no fertilisers, one small filter, ADA gavel, plants only hairgrass, moss, nana & windelov

Shrimpie tank!!!


Moss, nana & hairgrass


Perfect tankmates

hi Joe, wow your moss looks gorgeous and green
it looks very nice with hairgrass and nanas

[bryan]

This is my Afro-Central-South American tank.
Houses an L18,L27,Lizard cat,Flagtail cat,some Otos,Sterbai,Panda,Brochis Splendes,Cardinal Tetra, Phantom Tetra,Golden Pencilfish.
Plants are Anubias and Bolbitis.Ignore the hornwort please.
Some pebbles.
Some driftwood.

2.5FT(3FT IOS) x 1.5FT x 2FT
110W of PL light
No Fert.No Co2
1 Fan
A long long wait for the plants to settle down.

[barmby]

-3 years old
-No water change
-2 feet
-OHF
-18W PL
-No Fertilization
-3 x Red Ruby tetra
-1 x Rasbora
-1 x Cherry Barb
-30 x Malayan Shrimps

IMO, poor photo. But then, this is a neglected tank. I never do water change!

[Xianghao]

quite natural looking. But your lone cherry barb and rasbora not lonely?

[barmby]

quite natural looking. But your lone cherry barb and rasbora not lonely?

Thanks for commenting.

Picture was taken 3 months ago. The cherry barb died, but rasbora still living. I only feed once a day, btw. a non-CO2 tank.

[taikiat]

1.5 ft X 1 ft X 1ft
Flora: Polysperma Hygrophila, Water Wisteria, Java Moss, BBA =)
Fauna: 5 Harlequin Rasboras, 1 Oto, 60+ Cherry Shrimps, 50+ Ghost Shrimps

Polysperma hygrophila on the left, wisteria on the right corner, java moss in right foreground, and BBA on DW =) Left the BBA alone since it stays there and leaves my fast plants alone, java moss green and healthy not bothered at all. Dont see the ghost shrimps anymore =(. No CO2, no ferts, ADA soil, WC(15&#37 every 2 weeks, no fan, no chiller, one eden (unknown brand) filter, tank stable for 2 yrs, only changed a batch of H.Rasboras and Oto, the last gen died due to old age I think. Cherries happily reproducing in java moss bed, might get nanas or mid ground plants to reduce the unnatural look of the polysperma =) Low tech due to budget constraints. No test kits, no thermometers used at all from start till now, all through experimentation.

[rayade76]

My first low tech tank

1) hangon filter
2) moss
3) 5w clip light
4) no CO2, no fert
5) 10 cherries shrimps
6) black colour gravel

nice tank , cool words .

thanks for sharing

[V31]

At the very beginning..

After some time.. before "spot-algae-on-glass scrub"

[JadeIceGreen]

Here is my low tech betta tank.

[haagen]

hi there,

just re-scape my low tech 2ft x 1ft x 9" tank.

no CO2
moss
nanas
java fern (?? not sure :P)
floating plants

CRS
Amano
cardinal

been running this tank for more than a year...

[Plantbrain]

BTW, you folks can use the Dry start method to have the tanks fill in nicely, then fill with water etc.

Or also try the Excel type dosing, then ease off that and go full no carbon enrichment once the tank has grown in well.

Both work for good establishment.

Here's my 3 liter nano no water change for 9 months onyx sediment etc:


Regards,
Tom Barr