Please comment about my tank. I feel that there's somewhere not right but can't identify how to improve.
Last edited by cwtan12; 16th Aug 2006 at 07:33.
Yeap, there's no hardscape. Get a peice of driftwood and work your plants around it. The driftwood gives character and form to the aquascape.
There are a couple of too-big plants, like the pointy one on the left and the Lotus on the right.
The Lotus is red, and that's the first thing you look at in this tank. It's positioned too much to the right, and too big. There's also the lack of fish, which give a "life point" for the eye to look at.
In fact this is a rescape done a few days ago.Originally Posted by |squee|
There's a Driftwood in the middle but the plant grow too much on it. I dont know what the riccia lookalike plant called. I grows very fast. So you mean either I trim the plant ont he DW or add in another DW?
The bigger plants (I think is a type of nana) are still in the pot. I can easily remove them. Next to the Tiger Lotus, there's a crypt undulata (red). If i swap their position, the side will look empty. That's what I did earlier.
I think tiger lotus grow too fast. I got it 2 weeks plus ago at the height of 2 inches high only. Now almost reached my water level. The MM also need to be trimmed every 3-4 days. The E. tenellus need to cut every few days also to prevent it from spreading all over. Worst is the plant in front at the right side. I need to cut everyday. In 2 days it will reach the inlet of my filter. How to minimise their growth? I only add TMG at 20-25% of their recommended dosage once a week. I heard that without fertiliser, they will grow long and not wide and broad.
This is my setup. Please advise what is wrong there.
Temp: 24 degrees Celsius
CO2 injection: 2-3 bps (10-12 hrs a day)
Substrate: ADA
Fertiliser: TMG only without base fertiliser
Additive: 2 types of unknown mineral rock powder
pH: 6.4
KH: 4-5
GH: 3-4
Lighting: Deltec 2x24W HO T5 (10-12 hrs a day)
Plants
Crypt beckettii
Crypt wendtii
Crypt undulata (Red)
Crypt nurii
Coral pellia
Red tiger lotus
Spiky Moss
E tenellus
HC ''Cuba''
lilaeopsis brasiliensis
nana 'Petite'
MM
4 unknown
As for fauna. It's a shrimp tank. THX!
Last edited by cwtan12; 16th Mar 2006 at 15:49.
How much of TMG are you dosing per week ?
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Hi Cwtan,
Agree with Squee here, I personally think an addition of 1 large and 2 small selected rocks will do nicely here. My 2 cents, have fun.
Something about the water & the fishes that calms me down.
not fixed..20%-25% of the recommended dosage.
Hi Cwtan,
Agree with Squee here, I personally think an addition of 1 large and 2 small selected rocks will do nicely here. My 2 cents, have fun.
Whew's the correct place I shall put? I think I need to get rid of some plants.. Looks too dense to me.
too dense for a shrimp tank! Difficult to spot shrimps bro! Add a few tetras to liven things up!
too dense for a shrimp tank! Difficult to spot shrimps bro! Add a few tetras to liven things up!
Tetra will eat the shrimplets, right? I am keeping mid high to high grade CRS in it. Any other alternatives?
May I suggest getting a bigger DW with moss tied to it and place it at the center of the tank.
I think ADA soil have got nutrients that why plants grows well.
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Erm, what is the rubber sucker doing in the middle-right of the tank?
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WOW! Very nice setup! If I were I fish I would stay in there
.:: Novice Moss Farmer ::.
Nice plants... Yea agree there's no "hardscape"
Probably also u could include more red plants in your tank to improve the colour contrast??
It is too green at some parts, especially the left side
hi cwtan, but u said ur lotus grow from 2 inches to such a height in just such a short period of time? is it really so fasT?
cos i am having a small lostus bout 2.5 inches oso, hopefully it wont grow so fast, if not it will fills up the tank.
Yeah, but i think almost all fishes will try to eat shrimplets. I guess u'll have to add alot shrimps in there!
Fauna: 14 Rummy Nose, 6 Black Tetra, 3 Otos, 1 Bronze Corys, 1 Cigar Fish, 3 Neon Tetra, 5 Black Widow Tetra, 1 mini puffer
I have thrown the tiger lotus away. The leaves are just too big and too many for my tank and they grew very untidily because lack of space and blocked the light... They occupied almost half my 2ft tank. I am wondering why all my lotus leaves grew all the way up to the surface of my tank while some others that i have seen elsewhere grow thickly just a few inches from the soil surface and only 2 or 3 small ones grow all the way up..
icic, but heard from the boss(whom i got the lotus from), he says that if the lotus have high amount of light, it will prevent it from growing so long, or maybe ur light is not high enough.
Nice setup, keep it up man.
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