My tank at the Singapore Gardens Festival

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Hi, folks,

I don't know if you missed it but if you were at the Singapore Gardens Festival at Suntec City last week, you might have seen my tank:



My tank was at the Hortpark's display area:



Here's a close-up:



I brought the tank home last Saturday and everything's in a mess. I intend to tear it down and start all over again.

Loh K L

[Green Baron]

Kwek Leong,
That is a lovely tank ! Unfortnately I didn't see it:-(

[Mars]

Beautiful tank!!! What mosses are in there? Lightning?

Post pics of your other tanks please

Marsel

[FC]

KL,

Nice! What foreground plant were you using?

(For unknown cause, my account was locked for some weeks, now it works again)

[G.rosea]

Looks like Singapore moss.

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Thanks for the kind words, everyone.

Kimmo is right, what I have on the driftwoods and on the background is Singapore Moss. The carpeting is Mini-Java Moss. For lights, I use 2 two feet fluorescent tubes, 18 W each.

I bought a new tank of the same dimensions and thought it wouldn't be that difficult to transfer the aquascape from the old tank to the new one. But it was much harder than I thought. The Bolbtis has grown so much it was difficult bunching the driftwoods together again. And the carpet of Mini-Java has turned slightly brown after one week at the exhibition. My wife said I should stripped everything down and start all over again. It's such a pity. The mosses and plants were growing so well before the tank was brought to the exhibition.

I'll probably work on it during the weekend. Saturday is going to be a public holiday for us as it's National Day.

Marsel, I'll see if I have time to post some pics of my other tank, the bigger one.

Loh K L

[Eyal]

Hi
First of all : beautiful exhibition tank =D>
Second : What is a mini java moss ?
Eyal

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Hi, Eyal,

Sorry for the late reply but the Mini-Java Moss is, just like the normal Java Moss a species of the genus Taxiphyllum. I'm afraid that's all we know about the moss. We do not know it's species name or its country of origin.

Here's a picture of the Mini-Java growing on a piece of driftwood:



As you can see, it looks very much like Java Moss (T. barbieri) except that the leaves are much finer.

Loh K L