+2.5ft Iwagumi Shallow Tank

[PROX]

Added 2 x badis-badis. I noticed small little creatures/bugs moving all over my soil at night. Let see if this little fish can eat it all.



Read the 2nd paragraph..something interesting.

[hdarius]

Prox: Another nice scape! Will visit your blog and wait for more updates!

Hi PROX, where did you get the dark colour lava rock from?

dersuz: You can try and get dark color lava rocks from Bioplast at Boon Keng. I only saw small ones so far, not sure if they have huge ones.

[ne0matr1x]

Won't badis-badis eat shrimps too?

[Apistoinka]

Nice tank bro... The plant grow so fast and very well too... Looking forward for more pictures... Congrats...

[PROX]

In my opionion, Badis bengalensis is too small to eat shrimps. I like to see their curious characteristic.Very cute.

I found 2 more big dark grey lava rock from my friend. He will pass it over to me after clear off his tank..time to join the 2 islands together.

[eviltrain]

i have seen Badis bengalensis nib on new born Fire Red Shrimplets before. they are actually very good in removing worms in infested tanks.

[PROX]

eviltrain - thanks for the advice. I have yet to decide what to put in..maybe i will leave it like this for a while until glosso grow thicker.

Will only add in baby yamato to clean up my rocks

[zonkkie]

My badis only take live food. If there are worms, great. But you might have to remove them after that because I don't think you want introduce life food to your tank.

[PROX]

I got plenty of tiny bugs (as big as this *) in my tank. Nothing alarming so i hope this little fish can help me eat them

[PROX]

Very hard to capture picture of this little fish. Probably camera shy...



Day 18... Fluorescent green Glosso.

[zonkkie]

Wow... looking good! You still keeping up with the 70% water change everyday? Lighting hours also increased from 5 hours already right?

[PROX]

Photoperiod increased to 7.5 hours daily.
Tank temperature 22C
Water change now 3 days once @ 70%. (not recommended to follow unless you know for sure that livestock can take it)



Day 1 >>>> Day 18

From the 1st picture, you can see the original Katana T5 spectrum compare to Giesemann.

[dersuz]

Prox: Another nice scape! Will visit your blog and wait for more updates!





dersuz: You can try and get dark color lava rocks from Bioplast at Boon Keng. I only saw small ones so far, not sure if they have huge ones.

Tks, will pay them a visit.

[Alvin Koh]

PROX, your progress shots are amazing and the glosso is spreading so well. The colour rendering of the Giesemann tubes looks so much better - well worth the change!

[EvolutionZ]

bro any reason why you do 70% everyday?

[Emokidz]

Is the reason for the 70% wc to reduce algae growth?

[griffinkid]

Is the reason for the 70% wc to reduce algae growth?

sounds possible.

[PROX]

I recycled the old soil and it is cloudy for the first 1-2weeks. I have to performed 70% WC to get it clear. Now WC is reduced to 3 days once for about 50%.

ADA Amazonia I tend to cloud water more than A2.

I use BorneoWild Growth now to suppress algae growth (I hope it works...)

[zonkkie]

The Day 1 - Day 18 pictures really show how the glosso has spread.

By the way, thanks for showing the water changing picture. Finally got my hands on the contraption.

[PROX]

zonkkie - that is the exact holder that i am using.



Update:

Day 25

WC every 3 days - 30-50%
1ml of BorneoWild Growth & ADA Brighty K everyday