Low Tech 2Ft

[dimitri]

Another set-up recently.............














Getting messier

[Ingen]

Looking good! Love the mixture of plants.

[dimitri]

Thanks for the compliment bro!!

Still looking around for rare finds........

Pretty difficult to spot at the usual LFSs......

[dimitri]

Eriocaulon sp.


Eriocaulon sp. Vietnam


Bucephalandra Skeleton King


Sagittaria Platyphylla


Cryptocoryne 'Green Gecko'


Cryptocoryne 'Silver Queen'


Unknown plant. Does anyone knows what plant is that with the 'hairy' leaves???

[kurty]

Nice, envious...

[furyprix]

The crypt gecko is lovely! May I know where you got that lovely specimen?

and you have a very nice and diverse combination of plants there! Look forward to the scape when the plants grows in more!

[msklee]

Hi ts, may I know what is the fish with a black triangle on its body?
Find that fish quite nice and where do you get it from?

[Greentank]

Nice tank, the black traingle fish is harlequin tetra.

[gorilla83]

Unknown plant. Does anyone knows what plant is that with the 'hairy' leaves???

The unknown plant looks like rock tassel fern... Lycopodium squarrosum

or staghorn clubmoss... Lycopodiella cernua

Is it doing well submerged?

[dimitri]

Nice, envious...

Thanks for the kind words bro!!

The crypt gecko is lovely! May I know where you got that lovely specimen?

and you have a very nice and diverse combination of plants there! Look forward to the scape when the plants grows in more!

Thanks for the compliments bro!!

I got the cryptocoryne green gecko from Tiong Bahru Wu Hu LFS......

Simply love to buy and put them in................ Provided that they looked "low-tech" plants to me......

Hi ts, may I know what is the fish with a black triangle on its body?
Find that fish quite nice and where do you get it from?

Hi bro, as what Noble_guy pointed out, it's a harlequin rasbora....... i do have some espei inside, which are pretty similiar to harlequins......

Nice tank, the black traingle fish is harlequin tetra.

thanks for the compliments bro!!

[dimitri]

The unknown plant looks like rock tassel fern... Lycopodium squarrosum

or staghorn clubmoss... Lycopodiella cernua

Is it doing well submerged?

Thanks for the ID.....

Not sure bro..... I "googled" the name that you mentioned and find them to be quite similiar in looks.......

This had been submerged for more than a month..... while there seems to be minimal growth, it seems to be healthy.......

The plant is pretty stiff though, which i suspect could be terrestial......

[msklee]

Nice tank, the black traingle fish is harlequin tetra.

Hi bro, as what Noble_guy pointed out, it's a harlequin rasbora....... i do have some espei inside, which are pretty similiar to harlequins......

Thanks for your reply. Now will be to find the fish at LFS

[uklau]

Nicely done!

May I know what lighting set are you using?

[boonware]

Nice tank and fish.

[dimitri]

Thanks for your reply. Now will be to find the fish at LFS

No problem bro!! They should be a common sight in most LFS...

Nicely done!

May I know what lighting set are you using?

Thanks for the compliment bro!!

The light set is a 2FT aquazonic T8 single tube set.

However, i only turn on the lights when i reach home after work for my night viewing, around 8-10 or 11pm.....

This tank is situated directly beside the window but no direct sunlight, hence, i just let nature do the work.....

Nice tank and fish.

Thanks for the compliment bro!!

[dimitri]

A list of plants in the tank:

Anubias lanceolata
Anubias azfelii
Anubias barteri glabra
Anubias barteri glabra "variegatus"
Anubias nana coffeefolia
Anubias nana
Alternanthera reineckii 'mini'
Bolbitis heudelotii
Bolbitis heudelotii west Africa
Bolbitis heudelotii 'mini'
Bucephalandra skeleton king 'dark'
Bucephalandra catherineae
Bucephalandra sp.
Cryptocoryne 'green gecko'
Cryptocoryne timahensis
Cryptocoryne bullosa
Cryptocoryne lucens
Crinum calamistratum
Crinum natans
Eriocaulon sp. Vietnam
Eriocaulon sp.
Elatine hydropiper
Eleocharis acicularis 'mini'
Hygrophila araguaia
Hygrophila pinnatifida
Micranthemum 'Monte Carlo'
Microsorum pteropus 'narrow'
Microsorum 'narrow Taiwan'
Microsorum pteropus 'trident'
Microsorum pteropus 'Philippine'
Sagittaria platyphylla
Staghorn moss?

[kurty]

can i check, for nana and fern, i know usually we will tie it to weight it down.

but if i don't wish to do that, can i just plunge into the substrate?
what is the correct planting method for nana and fern.

thanks

[dimitri]

For my case, due to the dense spaces between the plants, I am able to place the ferns down where the leaves will interlock each other..... Hence, they stay where I want them to be.......

as for nana, I place them at strategic spots where there is over-growth to prevent them from floating up. Else will be using glue to stick their rhizome onto lava rocks and push it into the substrate, covering the rock, with rhizome above the substrate...... I would choose the smaller rocks to have lesser hassle......

i have read in other websites where the causasians mention planting nana into the substrates...... They simply bury the roots into the substrate with the rhizome above substrate...... They all claimed that this method does not harm the plant...... Not sure abt this though

[liverpool1208]

Bro sorry newbie here, in the first pic the tank is just plain clear/white and when switch off room light it's blue how come? does it have something to do with the tank light? Please explain .. thanks

[dimitri]

The "white" tank was the scaping plan that I was playing around before start up bro......

used a totally different blue tank when I commence the setting up of the tank that's all.....