My 2 ft and 1 ft tanks

[Phillipians]

Hi guys these are my tanks for now, heh, pls gimme your comments, the first one, is 2 x 1.5x1.5, about 3 weeks old, still trying to get the MM and indica to grow bushily, and the blyxa were added a few days ago.





Details:
Eheim 2026 pro2
co2: cylinder @ 2 bps
Lights: 2 x 55 W matrix + 2 x 36W = A whopping 5.2 WPG.
Dosing: 1 tsp three times a week of KNO3 + 1 tsp MGSO4 once a week + 1/8 tsp every 2 days. 1 ml of Micros after water change and .5 ml every alternate day.

Been having hair algae infestations but clearing up now. After increasing my dosage.
Plants: HC, MM, Indica, Limnophilia Aromatica (gratiola) [supposed to fill in the centre 'missing' area but have since trimmed it and waiting for it to grow.
Narrow leaf java, Downoi to the right bottom, and the ubiquitous taiwan moss.

Next: 1 ft cube tank, just set up 30 mins ago



nothing much done to it yet, pls comment bad or good also can

[Thor]

2ft tank is beautiful. I'm impressed by the moss and HC lawn. If you can bring out more "redness" in the indica, it would be a stunning looking tank.

[Jungle-mania]

I think you shouldn't have put any fish into your new tank just yet, the tank is still cloudy and isn't stabilised. Is that lapis sand on top of your ADA, seems very little, makes the contrast rather glaring. I would remove the lapis sand. But I like your 2 feet tank, it is very clean.

[Phillipians]

the fish were formerly in my nano which i just tore down. so house them there, but they are still doing fine there. So thank God for that, didnt wanna waste money buying more critters as i wanted them to take down any mosquito larva. Intend to make this a shrimp tank.

Wanna add more rocks so as to create a cliff effect, and also the contrast is intended, thought it was interesting colour contrast rather than use white

[Jungle-mania]

Ah shrimp tanks. Seems to be a craze now as a sidekick tank.

[Phillipians]

yea.... tonight ill be re-scaping it again, as i found a really nice pc of wood suitable for one ft cube. Heh, will post it up together with the 1 ft cube i scaped for my gf, meanwhile let the comments fly

[leekh77]

wat is those tall plant ID on the left called?

[Phillipians]

short term is MM, supposed to grow rather bushy, mine is not up to standard yet heh

[leekh77]

short term is MM, supposed to grow rather bushy, mine is not up to standard yet heh

they sell in pot? how much u bought? does it grow up tall fast? how often do u trim them?

[Phillipians]

after establishing themselves they do grow relatively fast but not exactly very very fast growers, the initial stages will be a little longer. Per pot i think about 2 bucks or so but now i haven seen many lfs selling them, justikanz may have some to spare you can try pming him

[leekh77]

after establishing themselves they do grow relatively fast but not exactly very very fast growers, the initial stages will be a little longer. Per pot i think about 2 bucks or so but now i haven seen many lfs selling them, justikanz may have some to spare you can try pming him

ok, by the way how to you trim ur mm is grow too tall? u cut the top part stem or cut the bottom stem and re-plant another location? pls advice.. thx

[Justikanz]

Someone called? Sorry... Just gave the last of my MM to Wild Ginger...

[leekh77]

Someone called? Sorry... Just gave the last of my MM to Wild Ginger...

haiz, i will look ard at the lfs

[leekh77]

Someone called? Sorry... Just gave the last of my MM to Wild Ginger...

by the way, wat is MM stand for?

[Justikanz]

MM is for Hemianthus micranthemoides Its MM cos the plant had its genus name changed... Now some people use HM (MM) to indicate the plant.