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Thin out the front, push back the soilHalf sounds really good.
I can't fill the tank with additional soil anymore else 1/2 of the tank going to be filled up with soil. Then, my tank will be from iwagumi to vivarium.
Muahahaha !
Thin out the front, push back the soil
Huh?
You sure ah ?
If that's true, the really do it liao bohh
Do it..Originally Posted by Cloud-Strife
Not joking, Just Do It
I just poured 2 more litre of soil at the back of my 2ft tank
Done ... poured in some more extra soil.
Damn ... I throw away the light bulbs when my LFS told me the light is little bit bluish and more suitable to marine aquarium. No wonder my plants looks a little bit koyak. Replaced those bloody PL tubes with 2 x 36W daylight bulbs.
Plants start to make their own food. Muahahaha !
Latest update to my tank
Hair algae starts to grow very fast on the rocks and soil. So, I intro 2 new magic sweepers into the tank, the otos.
I've added dwarf hair grass at the background of the rockscape.
In between the rocks, I've added riccia to cover the bare soil. And they start pearling.
The glosso that I've planted earlier on also start to emerge from the soil. Runners start to grow across the soil.
Planning to add some yamatos to counter the algae. Stay tune for more updates.
i think your plant mass is too low. You may want to add some stem plants or floating plants to absorb excess nutrients while your filter and main plants mature
Cheers,
Melvin Lim
Looking good.
I think your plant mass is too low. you can plant more glosso and hairgrass.
Do more water changes to control the excess nutrients.
Chee Yong
tcy81 and mordrake,
The aquarium is just been setup for 3 weeks. The plants are just emerged from the soil. Probably need to wait for another month for the rest of the glosso to emerge from the soil and extend their runners.
Anyway, need to be patient while starting up a new tank, right?
What they are implying is that you should plant more plants, especially fast growers to compete against algae. If not the excess nutrients will be used by algae and you'll end up with an algae tank.
Nope, you should have planted more glosso at the start.. The whole substrate should be "filled" up with a few cm gap between each glosso stalk. Aqua soil leaks nutrients into the water stream, if you do not plant heavily at the start, algae will set in 2 - 3 weeks from planting.tcy81 and mordrake,
The aquarium is just been setup for 3 weeks. The plants are just emerged from the soil. Probably need to wait for another month for the rest of the glosso to emerge from the soil and extend their runners.
Anyway, need to be patient while starting up a new tank, right?
yes, that's why you are having hair algae problems as well as algae forming on the rocks.
always plant heavily at the onset and never wait for plants to fill in.
Cheers,
Melvin Lim
oh ok .. will try to do that this weekend
Re: My play play 2ft Iwagumi
Good start...
James GSE
My tank as on 6th April 2008
FTS:
Glosso start to spread and squeeze at each others:
Installed a fluval surface skimmer to overcome the oil film at the surface of the water:
Coming along nicely. I notice your fish hiding because the tank feels quite bare for them, unfortunate.
One thing to note about the oily surface. I've read up that its actually from your plants supposedly "screaming out" at you that something is missing for them to photosynthesise properly and effectively. I can't recall the substance the plant secretes excess amounts of when photosynthesis isnt occuring properly. Basically CO2 or nutrient balance isnt quite right. Hope this makes sense, if not i shall have to try refind the article i read this from.
P.S The algae you have growing on the rocks would also suggest that the balance isnt 100% right. I'm sure you can narrow it down to what your missing.
Verminator
Aquatic fanatic and keen learner of aquascaping
The canvas is what you make it...
Yes. NO3 is too much.
I've put some bacter balls to cycle the nitrate.
For the algae, I've put 7 yamatos and 1 SAE to counter them.
So far, the yamatos and SAE are very hardworking in cleaning up the hairy thing.
For the oily surface, I'm not so sure about what you said. I have another nano tank with driftwood, java fern and java moss. It also have oily surface although I don't dose the tank with any liquid fertiliser.
Perhaps you can enlighten me with the article you have read. I'm kinda annoyed of the oily surface.
i notice oily films on my tank surface whenever my hands goes in to arrange the plants , is that the cause?
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