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It took me a week and a half to cycle ADA II Amazonia.. I've had no problems with my CRS in it so far..
Hi. Considering these 2 soils for keeping CRS n BDS for some time now but still cant make up my mind. I'm doing a basic shrimp tank with mainly moss. Pls let me know your reviews/experience(cycling time, survival rate, breeding, colour etc..) on these soils. Thanks!
It took me a week and a half to cycle ADA II Amazonia.. I've had no problems with my CRS in it so far..
Thanks for your review. May I know what colour is the soil? Is it close to black or just brown in colour?Originally Posted by Ecalyte
Very dark brown.. close to black
OK thanks. U using the normal amazonia II or the powder type?
There is a powder type? Haha!
I'm using the normal granule-type soil. Each soil granule is about the size of the head of a thumb-tack or slightly bigger
Maybe I can help you further.. I'll link a youtube video of my small tank, so you can see. I'm using the soil there...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Odcm9AUXIdU
Bro, you did it with old filter media or new ones?
Yes.. there's a new type and they call it powder. Actually it's not really powder, just smaller granule soil.
Anw, nice setup you have there! You tied your own moss wall? Are you using US fissiden for your whole tank?
You changing filter only or you doing a new set up?
Old filter media, however.. I washed, rinsed and sun-dried it prior to this cycling due to my previous set up being poisoned by unquarantined plants.
So you can consider it new filter media as any bacteria in the filter media previously would have died from my 'detox-ing'
Within 4 days the ammonia spiked and went to zero, then within 5 days from that the nitrite went to zero.
The recommended cycling period for an ADA II soil is around 2 weeks. But I over-filtered the tank.. so maybe that resulted in a slightly faster cycling? I used 2 additional hang-on filters in addition to my canister filter during the cycling process, then removed the 2 hang-on filter after it was cycled..
Also just to add, this set up also contains completely brand new soil. I threw away the previous soil that was in there. I also washed the tank with hot water just to be extra sure.
So in all shape and form.. this can be considered a completely new set up
Yup.. best to use eveything new for new setup. If not whatever that's in the previous tank will be in the new tank.
Would be a new setup..I might add another filter when i decom the old tank but will probably "detox" the filter before running as well..
Thanks!
Um.. the moss wall at the back is US fissidens, the two moss walls on the side are christmas moss..
Actually my eyes are all on your shrimps instead of the substrate. LOL! very nice shrimps you have and i saw few berried too. And when you say small, what is the exact size? care to share?
Just over 1ft tank
37 x 21 x 21 inches
Eh bro..you meant cm right? 37 inches is 93 cm, 3 feet already! haha
Oh ya! I meant cm! haha! Oops..
Does anyone here happen to know where I can get custom tank made?
I want to get a custom tank of dimensions 2ft x 1.5ft x 1.5ft (60x45x45cm) with a separator in the middle..
I am using Benibachi Crimson with change of tank and new filter media.
Add in my CRS after 1 week, so far so good, 4 got berried.
I like how the benibachi soil work and the look of Ada 2 powder soil.
I am thinking if it is good to use both soil?
Maybe benibachi on bottom and Ada 2 on top.
Will there any implication?
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