2 ft tank - Need some advice

[soulfinder78]

Hi, this is my 3 month 2 feet tank, super low maintenace till now never did any trimming after removing those riccia from the foreground. this is a old pic when it's 2 month. still searching for the right foreground plant and some background plant for my tank's right hand corner to cover all my equipment



sorry those crypts had been removed as well...

tank spec are: 2 feet x 1.3 feet x 1.5 feet
CO2 : 3 bps
Ph: 6
Kh: never measure
temp: 26 to 28
Lights: 55w pl 11 hours daily
Bioload: 50 tetra, 50 yamato(some gone missing) 2 dwarf puffer
fert: easy life with weekly 20% water change and root monster
Substra: ADA black soil forget it's name

wanted to change to T5 72 w instead. is it good?

[Cacatuoides]

DD for background
Tenellus or APP for foreground?

my 2 cents

Nice setup!!!

[soulfinder78]

what's DD????

[Cacatuoides]

Diliplis Diandra...

[soulfinder78]

thanks for the comments.
thorw in some fast growers beside java ferns
the uncle call it feather grass. nice shape look a bit like hornwort.

will update the pic once my hc spread to the whole foreground

[|squee|]

Is the HC so bright in real life? It looks weird in the picture because of the colour tone

[soulfinder78]

oh sorry for the misleading pic, that's my old riccia which was history now filling spot of it's empty space are patches of hc trying to cover the whole foreground. picture still not updated yet...

[soulfinder78]

the photo i just took with my hp, pic quality kinda lousy so sorry abt it.

added some fast grower behind japonica and clover for the front ground.

[Ivan]

Very neat and nice tank you have.

By the way, may I know how do you upload your pics. from handphone? I tried to upload, but always not enough space (more than 200k).

[riccia]

Hi, this is my 3 month 2 feet tank, super low maintenace till now never did any trimming after removing those riccia from the foreground. this is a old pic when it's 2 month. still searching for the right foreground plant and some background plant for my tank's right hand corner to cover all my equipment

hi soulfinder78

nice tank you have there. really like the lush look of it.

btw, this is not a low maintenance tank cos you are still using CO2, 11hrs of light and also liquid fertiliser. you classify it as "super low maintenance" because you hardly maintain the tank only or no "house keeping".

[soulfinder78]

i see

so what type of housekeeping must i do???

[riccia]

i see

so what type of housekeeping must i do???

you have a beautiful tank. just keep up the good work.

normally when we mention low maintenance, it means keeping a tank w/o CO2, liquid fertiliser, minimum lights, so there is minimum or no maintenance at all.

[soulfinder78]

oh i see.
sorry for the wrong term used.

i upload my photos using photo bucket. jus paste the [IMG] format into here then big picture can be uploaded here.

here's the link : http://s21.photobucket.com