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nice shrimp there! hope to see more of your updates on shrimps and your scape. by the way your lightings is 5.4wpg?
My three weeks old shrimp tank. I am using ADA soil with a hanging filter and also a pressurised Co2 system.Currently my ph is around 6 and temperature varies from 27c-29c, 5.4WPG...should be enough... now I have few crystal red and some tiger shrimps.My tank still in cycling mode but no death reported so far
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nice shrimp there! hope to see more of your updates on shrimps and your scape. by the way your lightings is 5.4wpg?
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yes 1X24wpl(white) and 2X15wfl(pink) .is this too much??
maybe you can share with us more of your tank specifications
-I am using a CO2 pressurized tank with the solenoid thingee. Its plugged in with timer together with my lights and its on for 12 hours.
-I have two fans running 24/7 and the reading is between 27-29C depending on the weather
-CO2 is bubbling at 1bps,lights =5.4wpg, pH= 6,nitrate=0, a bit of nitrite reading,
-I am using gravel for bottom and ADA soil "Amazon" as top soil. Plants that I have,
1) Tonina belem (Background)
2) Limnophila aromatica (Background)
3) Rotola indica
3) Swordplant ??need id?? (Background) to cover my filter inlet
4) java moss (Foreground)
5) Cryptocoryne ??need id?? (Middleground)
6) red lotus ??need id??
Planning to plant glossostigma on my another empty foreground. I live in JB so I dont know where to get them... anyone idea where to buy in JB
Last edited by Justikanz; 8th Sep 2006 at 23:52.
hi tman..i think your temperture abit too high..
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Hi tman, I think you have the nitrite and nitrate mixed up... Anyway, post your buying plant query in AquaTalk, Beginner's or Plant forum, please... Thanks...
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ok Justikanz
btw, please enlighten me on the nitrate and nitrite??
This is what I have in mind for the nitrogen cycle process
Ammonia -> Nitrite -> Nitrate
The question is that my tank is almost a month old. There are still ammonia reading and only recently there are some readings on my nitrite test kit and zero for my nitrate.
So does it mean that my tank is not mature yet because there are no Nitrobacter to convert the nitrite to nitrate to complete the cycle.
I have been reading lots of stuff on the net and this is what I have in mind. I don't want to get things mixed up.
About the question on the temperature.. I understand that my temperature is too high... it could be the extra lighting that I have -5.4wpg. I have two PC fan blowing across my tank and the best result I get so far is 26c.. most of the time is 27c. Is this safe for my shrimps...
Last edited by Justikanz; 10th Sep 2006 at 02:11.
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1 month should have enough time for the nitrites to convert to nitrates already... In almost all tanks, except very newly setup ones or very newly populated ones, it is almost impossible to have zero nitrates with nitrite readings... Maybe your nitrate test kit is not working...
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Oh, juggling is hard work, man!...
Will get new test kit just to confirm
Last edited by Justikanz; 11th Sep 2006 at 08:42.
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You said you have some CRS and some tiger? I heard they cross breed.
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