My first planted tank

[simoncxy]

Hi guys

Here's my first planted tank, a 2ft x 1ft x 1ft tank (65L = 17gal).

Planning to stock shrimps in it once it is cycled. It is going to be a low-tech tank with only Seachem Flourish, Seachem Prime and Seachem Excel used.

The lighting is my own DIY creation, having both white and blue leds, and controlled by a USA Current 2-channel ramp timer. Currently it's set to full white intensity in the evening for 10 hours before fading off to a gentle blue glow for the rest of the night and the morning.

I tried Monte Carlo for the foreground but it just would not even stay rooted well in the substrate so I removed it all and planted hairgrass for foreground, with Bacopa caroliniana for the midground and the top of the ridges and for the background, I have Cabomba caroliniana and Eleocharis sp.

Hopefully the hair grass will spread enough to make the foreground fuller for shrimps to feel comfortable in. I designed the hardscape with a valley and a path in the middle and the right side has a slope that leads to a flat portion with some Bacopa Caroliniana planted there. The left side features some of this plant on the top of the rocks.

The substrate used is ADA Amazonia.

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[simoncxy]

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[lohsh]

Nice but the white river may soon be cover by the black soil
Btw, what led is that ? looked powerful and programmable !


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[simoncxy]

I soldered up an entire array of LEDs, a mixture of blues and whites, and hooked them up to a USA Current programmable LED Lamp Ramp Timer. It automatically ramps up and down the blue and white leds at the timings that I set. Pretty nifty..

[Phillipians]

Nice LED set. Wished I had the know-how to do so. BTW, your white sandy path will not remain that way. One way to ensure they do not mix is to have small/medium stones to demarcate the path.

[Dscheng]

Is that normal hair grass or mini? Mini hair grass is very easy to grow. With proper Co2, right temperature, trimming, it will be grow super dense.

[simoncxy]

I'm not sure if it's normal or mini, but I reckon it's normal. It's about 3-5cm tall. Bought it from seaview at $1.50 per packet.