My first attempt on planted 2FT tank

[bennyc]

Looks like ramhorn or pond snail. Easier to tell when they are bigger

[Ingen]

Such snails can breed like crazy... If you don't want a colony of these little once, it's best to remove them asap.

[Dscheng]

Arggh.. that one is a pond sail right? Ytd managed to catch a few. Sigh...

[Dscheng]

Brought a JBL 6 in 1 test kit. Tested on my nano / 2ft tank. is my nano tank reading ok? Seem like GH / KH kinda high side. My nano tank had been cycled for 2 month already.

So overall my 2FT tank water parameter better?


Shrimp Nano tank Result
Temperature - 24~25 degree
NO3 - Nitrate test-10
NO2 - Nitrite test-0
GH - General Hardness/ Total Hardness test-14
KH - Carbonate Harness test-10
pH - Acidic / Alkalinity test-6.8
CL - Chlorine test-0

2FT tank with various of fish
Temperature - 27~29 degree
NO3 - Nitrate test-10
NO2 - Nitrite test-0
GH - General Hardness/ Total Hardness test-7
KH - Carbonate Harness test-6
pH - Acidic / Alkalinity test-6.4
CL - Chlorine test-0

[Dscheng]

Is Amano Shrimp hard to keep? Last Sunday, i put into 5 amano shrimp into my 2FT. Until now 4 were dead. I have 20+ tetra, 10 guppies, 1 platy, 3 cherry barb. My amano shrimp is XL size, dont think they will attack the shrimp. Any idea what happen?

[Dscheng]

Hi all,

I getting Nitrite 0.5ppm. How can I bring to down to 0? I just do WC like 20%, because I was scrubbing off the wall algae.

[Dscheng]

40 days ! Not sure how come the behind plant is slanted?

[Dscheng]

My latest update for my planted tank. Chiller and co2 reactor was added on ! Sorry for my dirty intake lily pipe, haha, no time to clean it.







Picture of my another 19L GEX low profile tank.
Running at X303 canister, AL30 mini chiller. Temperature between 25-25 degree.
One giant crayfish, not dwarf type and 30+ RCS shrimplet, one oto and two pymgy cory.

[Bieffe]

Watch the platty they nip tails of guppies. I genna before.

[Bieffe]

Is your air always on?

[Dscheng]

U mean my airpump? Yes 24hr on, strangely if I turn off my airpump, I don't see pearling effect le.

[skytan]

The snail..looks like apple snail offsprings.

T_T


I have a lorry load of them, my kids dun allow me to murder them.

[Dscheng]

Watch the platty they nip tails of guppies. I genna before.

Hmm my platy seem like obese friendly type le. Very greedy only, i never see it nip on the guppies.

[Dscheng]

Hi all,

I had rescape my 2FT tank. Currently, want to grow HC carpet plant!

Rescape by adding a thin layer of ADA power type oil, encountered ammonia spike but luckily only for the first few days. After that no more ammonia spike.
So far so good, i can see the pearling effect daily.

Temperature = 25-25 degree
Co2 = 2-3 bps hook up with ITSA co2 reactor
Lighting = 54w - 8 hour daily
Daily doze with Tropical Fert and Excel = 1ml.

Ammonia=0
Nirite=0
Nirate =0
Ph=6.0

Wish me good luck !!

[Urban Aquaria]

Looks like its progressing well.

Just an observation, your surface skimmer head seems to be totally submerged way below the water level... ideally it should only be floating just slightly below the water surface, so that it can skim the surface. Perhaps move the entire skimmer unit 2-3cm higher so that the skimmer head can float freely.

Something like this:

[Dscheng]

Looks like its progressing well.

Just an observation, your surface skimmer head seems to be totally submerged way below the water level... ideally it should only be floating just slightly below the water surface, so that it can skim the surface. Perhaps move the entire skimmer unit 2-3cm higher so that the skimmer head can float freely.

Something like this:

Wa thank you ! I push my skimmer up a bit ! You got sharp eyes ! UA, will high Co2 causes high GH?
Hmm, i notice that my KH is 3, my GH is rather high 8. Just wonder is it normal..

[tetrakid]

Hi all,
I had rescape my 2FT tank. Currently, want to grow HC carpet plant!

Wa, very nicely taken pictures, bro. You are really dedicated to this hobby.
I like.

[Urban Aquaria]

Wa thank you ! I push my skimmer up a bit ! You got sharp eyes ! UA, will high Co2 causes high GH?
Hmm, i notice that my KH is 3, my GH is rather high 8. Just wonder is it normal..

Co2 shouldn't have any effect on GH... since there doesn't seem to be any rocks in your tank, i'd guess most likely its just accumulated from the mineral content in your source water (can test your tap water and see whats its GH).