My First Aquascaping

[Bieffe]

Your tank very nice. This is a non standard 2ft tank?
How much and where u got it?
This looks very similar to ADA specs.

[Danny Lau]

Hi Thatasky,

Base on your API Test Master results, did anything happened to your live stocks?

Ammonia(NHH3/NH4)= 2 ppm
Nitrate(NO3) = 20 ppm
Nitrite (NO2) = .25 ppm
PH = 6.4

[Thatasky]

Your tank very nice. This is a non standard 2ft tank?
How much and where u got it?
This looks very similar to ADA specs.

Bro this is a standard 60x30x36 cm tank only.

I got it that time around SGD75.00

Guys can mention where i bought this. I'm not sure is it ok to disclosed this information on forum.

[Thatasky]

Hi Thatasky,

Base on your API Test Master results, did anything happened to your live stocks?

Ammonia(NHH3/NH4)= 2 ppm
Nitrate(NO3) = 20 ppm
Nitrite (NO2) = .25 ppm
PH = 6.4

Bro so far everything is Ok. No strange behavior for the fish and shrimp.

[Thatasky]

Get otos because they are very hardworking and very shy creatures who do a lot of "backstage" work. Kind to shrimps too. Probably get 2 at least. My 2 x1.5 x1.5 ft tank has 12 kobutai, 2 wild white cloud mountain, 1 galaxy, 12 - 14 pygamaes cory, 50- 80 plus cherries, 5 yamato, 10 malayan shrimps, 4 otos, another 2 small catfish. I think you can stock up another 5 - 8 critters.

Wow jealos,

Current load:

9 x cardinal
2 x Siamese Algae eater
10 x yamato ( i can only count 6, the other 4 i cant find it. Look at the floor nothing)
6 x RCS

Yamato alone is cleaning to much. Now I'm worried my tank don't have enough algae to eat. Any food recommended for this critters. I'm flying and i need to entrust this to my wife.

[fireblade]

Can feed your algea crew hikari algea wafer

[Phillipians]

Yup, agreed with fireblade. Get the Hikari algae wafer. Supplement them probably once or twice a week if you think you are running out of algae LOL!

[Thatasky]

Yup, agreed with fireblade. Get the Hikari algae wafer. Supplement them probably once or twice a week if you think you are running out of algae LOL!

I think they getting hungry eh. My HC and monte Carlo is getting thinner. And i see that some of my plants are being dig to almost uprooted on the substrate. My substrate are AMAZONIA Powder. Easy for this critters to lift it.

[fireblade]

actually when I looked at the algea crew you added, I am thinking to myself, do you need so many algea crew from start? is there so many algea??

[Thatasky]

Bro, i only want 6 yamato 6 RCS but they selling the Yamato by plastic which contains 10 pcs then the RCS selling 6pcs.

But yesterday they have gathering in the front of the aquarium and i count 7 dunno where the other 3 go. RCS still complete attendance.

[Urban Aquaria]

If some of the yamato shrimps are missing (they are much larger than RCS so should be easier to spot), check the rest of the room... as in areas a few meters away from the tank.

Yamato shrimps can jump out of the tank and are strong enough to crawl a few meters away. I remember finding one of my yamato shrimps crawling along the corridor... that was almost 5-6 meters away from its tank.

[fireblade]

mine jumped out and walk to my master bed room across a small walk way.... my wife thought is a cockroach luckily she never kill it... and I managed to put it back in my tank..

[seudzar]

Think my tank is much more overloaded than all of you here. My tank is 50cm X 34cm X 34cm. Running a ehiem aquacompact 60 and ehiem 1150. I have 10 sp red neons, 10 getrudea, 6 Catalina tetra, 12 weiztmani tetra, 2 brown pencil fish, 40+ hastatus, 1 apisto caca, 200+ malayan shrimps, 6-7 horned nerite snails, 5 yamato shrimps and 50+ cherry shrimps. WC 2 times per week 50%

[Thatasky]

Think my tank is much more overloaded than all of you here. My tank is 50cm X 34cm X 34cm. Running a ehiem aquacompact 60 and ehiem 1150. I have 10 sp red neons, 10 getrudea, 6 Catalina tetra, 12 weiztmani tetra, 2 brown pencil fish, 40+ hastatus, 1 apisto caca, 200+ malayan shrimps, 6-7 horned nerite snails, 5 yamato shrimps and 50+ cherry shrimps. WC 2 times per week 50%

Are you not overdoing it? 2x per week 50% water change. Bro i don't have the luxury of doing that.

[Thatasky]

Since you spent quite a bit on the lights, tank and filter, might as well go all the way and get pressurized co2 as well.

Also, while the colour rendition of the aqualighter is superb, but it might not be sufficient for the plants to crawl nicely; especially your foreground plant.

Bro in the end i bought a pressurized CO2. I already bought the tank and going to take the regulator with solenoid. Guess what, i got scolding with wife. This hobby is worst than RC helicopter eh.

[seudzar]

Are you not overdoing it? 2x per week 50% water change. Bro i don't have the luxury of doing that.

Oh, my water change is very simple. Hahaha. No issue. However my tank is heavily planted and 50% wc once a week for the tank also not any issue. Just that I more hardworking. However if I want my plants to grow faster, I will wc once a week. Hahaha

[seudzar]

Bro in the end i bought a pressurized CO2. I already bought the tank and going to take the regulator with solenoid. Guess what, i got scolding with wife. This hobby is worst than RC helicopter eh.

This hobby is not so bad. Tell your wife at least it keep you at home and not outside drinking and clubbing. Hahaha

[Thatasky]

Guys i need an expert advise again and this time its for the CO2 regulator. I getting it less than 100 but I'm not sure its an Ok brand.

Its a ocean free Duo pro Co2 regulator. I notice its a single gauge type. So I'm not sure is this a good bet or not.

[Shadow]

I lose fate on Ocean free product long time ago, none of their equipment that I bought last more than a year.

[Thatasky]

I lose fate on Ocean free product long time ago, none of their equipment that I bought last more than a year.

So bro any recommendation which is cheap, I'm getting it only for 70 bucks.