comment on 2 ft tanks

[Phillipians]

Hi guys here are 2 of my tanks , one semi low maintanence and the other high maintanence. Feel free to comment,

[Phillipians]

btw how do you all make the photo appear directly on the forum itself?

[wong1979]

Nice..but your camera or rather photography techniques do no justice.

Click on the postcard icon, and insert the url into the textbox that pop up.

[Phillipians]

hi there, thnks for the comments, u tried to do what you said but it doesnt seem to load up.... and 3 Megapix how do i make it look nicer or is the pixel to low?

[wong1979]

hi there, thnks for the comments, u tried to do what you said but it doesnt seem to load up.... and 3 Megapix how do i make it look nicer or is the pixel to low?

Don't use the address given when you click on the full image. Instead, goto your thumbnail page, copy the whole line from the URL, and insert into the image text box.

[hirowen]

Hi Phillipian,

Nice tank u have...Both tanks look healthy...juz that the second tank need to have a bg paper..this enable ur aquascape to stand out and to hide the wires...and also..i believe that ur 2nd tank will look beautiful when ur DW is cover with mosses...

[taz_boy]

very nice tank,
with wonderful looking moss, care to share ur tank specs??

and i felt that the 2nd tank should have black oyama background too...if not the running wires at the back kinda spoil the perfect picture....
cheers....

[XnSdVd]

Photography tips:

When taking pics of your tank turn off all external light sources. Meaning have a dark room with nothing but the tank light on, that way you don't get reflections on the glass.

If your camera doesn't allow you to adjust the shutter speed(or if you don't know what it is) Shoot from a stable surface, you'll get nice motion blur on the fish like you do now. But without bluring the rest of the tank.

[Phillipians]

oic thanks for the tip, i ll do that for the next photoshoot heh, And hmm the tank specs,
1st tank:
2 ft x 1 ft x 1.25ft (ht)
Ph: 5.5 - 6.0
kH; Not sure never measured in my life heh..
Filter: eheim 2026 proII
CO2: internal reactor (the green type) with 5 l co2 tank solenoid
Substrate: ADA amazonia
Lights: 2 x 36 w elbiru
Temp- 25- 28 Degrees done with a fan
Plants: Mainly tonina belem, manaus, Hong taiyang, hottonia, 1 x eriocaulon cinereneum, HC, taiwan moss, luwidgia arcuata
Dosing: half teaspoon of mgso4, kno3, a little kh2po4, 2 caps of LGA, 5 drops of LGM per time. Done once in 3 days.
Bubble: 1.5 BPS

2nd tank did nothing much, settled in one hour:
2 x 1 x 1 ft
Substrate: lapis with JBJ base fert
PH - 7.0 - 7.2
Temp- 27 - 29 degrees
Lights: 55 w
Bubbles: 1 persec ceramic diffusor
Filter: some funny external canister, cheapo one
dosing: same as the above, everything done in half amounts.

Anything else you wanna know"? i ll try to take a better pic next time

[Phillipians]

hmmmm, one thing interesting that i can share is that i dont like to do water changes, so its according to mood . but honestly, hmm i usually do it once every 4 - 5 wks.. the other one also the same.

The high tech one is about 6 mths old, the other semi low one is about 1 + mth. both are mature though, although quite surprised the semi low one mature so quickly

[XnSdVd]

From what I understand a high KH can cause bone deformities in the fish that stunt their growth... Do any of yours look a little weird?

[Phillipians]

hmmm mine look all healthy, no difformities as for now... not sure though, will check again but i dont remember any having deformities...