My Cardinals Paradise

[[C]irRuS]

I would like to share with all of you my aquascape.

Tank Size: 2FT X 1.5FT X 1.5FT
Lighting: 36 Watt PL
CO2: Cylinder Type @ 2 BPS
Substrate: ADA Amazonia (Background), Fine river sand (Foreground)
Aquascape Age: 1 Week Old


Fauna: Cardinal Tetras, Otocinclus, Malayan Shrimps, Sakura Shrimps

Flora: Vallisneria Nana, Christmas Moss, Golden Nana, Petite Nana, Java Fern, E. Tenullus

[stewpid]

Love the conceptReally original
Looks like a river bed..should look good when the moss grows in...keep us updated

Nice rocks by the way!

[milnek]

Nice concept and beautiful... thanks for sharing

[roundg]

Very beautiful and novel design. I love the way how uyou arrange the driftwood.

[[C]irRuS]

Thank you all for the nice comments.

I am trying to give the tank "cardinals swimming through sunken branches" type of feel.

Any advise from all of you out here to improve the scape are welcome.

[mikhail]

Overall composition is actually very nice. I love the blending of the plant leaves, from small rounded (anubias nana) at front to longish thin (vallisneria nana) at the back. keep it up

[Augustine_81]

Nice looking tank and healthy plants !!

[ArCtic]

Beautiful tank setup and nice looking plants as well...

[rexy7005]

Nice blend of wood and rocks

[[C]irRuS]

Update of my tank after a month, added 5 Altum Angels.

[tinydot]

ur tank is growing well...btw do u have any shrimps casualties?

[seanskye]

Yeah I wanted to ask too... I always thought shrimps and angels dun belong together...

[[C]irRuS]

Of course there will be shrimp casualties but not alot.

Shrimp is usually quite fast.

They are some shrimps that jump out of the tank, probably due to altum angels chasing them.

Overall, shrimp is able to survive quite well, as planted tank provide alot of hiding place for them.

Hope it clear your doubt.

[Captain Telecredible]

tink 5 altums is too little..haha

5 is alot for this tank...im afraid altums might grow up to be too big for this tank ....

[illumnae]

you will not be able to keep the altums in there for long. they grow very large.

[jhseah]

When they grow to a considerable size, not only your shrimps, even the cardinals might be snacks for them when the light goes out, its "hunting" time.

You will be surprise how "big" angels mouth can be.

[[C]irRuS]

Thanks for the advise. Will shift them after they grow bigger.

Currently, Their body size is only 50 cent coin.

[warrenlee]

Hi Bros,

I have bought XL cardinal from C328, 33 pieces for $33. But I don't know why they are not eating. Always swim at the below of the water, eventhough it is feeding time. All fishes, like rummy nose, pink danio they are up for the food.

And I also notice my cardinal belly is very thin and every day, I have 3-5 cardinal dying.

Hi experts here, please kindly advice me how to keep Cardinal healthy and eating there food.

[marle]

the cardinals might not be healthy to start with. when did you buy those 33 cardinals?

[warrenlee]

4 days ago, on Friday. Now, the stomach is so skinny and empty. But they just have no appetite and refuse to eat.

I have tried to feed with the jap sink food and micro pellet. They just don't eat.

Any ideas, are they catch from the wild or from local fish farm. They seems to looks the redish color.