New to planted tank. Start 1ft tank.

[Neondagger]

I cannot handle such level of planted tank yet. the last time i bought the stuffs cost me over 300 bucks (which I sold away in the end..) now stick to low tech happy already haha

Hehe now still young. Best time to start cause no need pay bills. Only pay for tanks and equipment. But also painfully sia everytime allowance spend finished 1 day haha.

[Neondagger]

After coming back from KL for 5 days with my tank completely covered by plastic wrapping and 8hrs of t5ho light. Most of my HC died off. I bought new HC and use potted soil on my balcony. I ordered a new tank from fishybusiness and decide to scape the tank properly before trying any HC.
The tank came on 13Jan. I took some HC from my balcony and transfer the soil from my old tank to the new tank.

Old Tank



New Tank





I over bought the rocks when I ordered from mizuworld lol, bought like 30 over rocks and used 3... Over excited when shopping online and don't feel the pain.


Currently on 8hours of light and going to mist it everyday till I get my mistking plus second timer to auto mist the tank. Probably going to take 3months for the HC to carpet.

I going to try tie minipelia on the driftwood after I flood the tank but it will take about 3months? So that the driftwood will look like a bonsai tree.

[sateman]

love the bonsai...hope it will turn out great!
any chance of selling your rocks at rock-bottom price...pun intended..hehe

[darter]

Sell mi some rocks can?

[Neondagger]

Haha thks. I also love the bonsai. I wanted to put the bonsai deeper in the soil but after I put the hc. It's very difficult to dig into the soil. I dying to flood the tank lol. So I can put mini pelia on the branches to make the bonsai feel. I guess I at least have to wait for a month for this small tank before flooding. At least let the HC take root first. The tank looks great in my living room hehe. It's 1.1m so just below eye level. Just nice a standing view.

I am going to put the rocks for sale soon. Probably 1 piece for $3. I bought even the smallest piece for 3.8 and bigger piece for 4.8. Can check at mizuworld.

[sateman]

That's pretty costly...saw some small rocks at C328 ysterday at $3/bag containing 5 to 6 pieces. Must be the shipping charges leh..

[|squee|]

I'd keep the rocks if I were you. Never huts to have a stockpile of aquascaping material

[Neondagger]

It's a sg company le. Mizuworld. Charge $12 for delivery. But the rocks are ADA ans seiryu rocks. How true is dat I not sure.

[felix_fx2]

He actually was happily clicking at mizuworld lol.
Online shopping, just can't stop clicking

[Neondagger]

I never think through how many I need for this 1ft tank lol. Just thought if I bought more than I got more choices. LOL! end up 3/30. 27 wasted pieces

[wongce]

bro, nice rocks are never wasted... you can start to plan for your next canyon scape ....hehehe...

[darter]

I wan the rocks, sell mi a few for ,my iwagumi scape can?

PM me!!!

[eviltrain]

If your mistking is doing its job, you can tie the mini pelia on the wood. And let it grow together with the HC

Send from my GT-P1000 (Overcome 7 Series v4.0.0)

[Neondagger]

But must be very damp right? I afraid the mist will flood the tank. Then hc die

[marimo]

thats is a lot of rocks .. i cant see clearly on the pic
some of them looks browish? sure ADA seiryu? lol

I used steel brush to scrub and revive the rock true greyish blue color.

still v busy setting up my rockscape tank, trying very new concepts.
Still missing some parts to fill out the scape
getting plants and be busy during CNY.

this hobby is killing me

[Neondagger]

Hehe you alway 1 step ahead of me. How's your progress on led light. I find it not worth it for now.
I would love to learn something from your scape. I only use water spray on the rocks le. Unless mizuworld sell the wrong rock, I think should not be wrong cause they are quite reputable plus I pay quite a amount for the rocks.
I bought 2type.
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Item : Seiryu Stones S Quantity : 10 Price : SGD 4.80 Item Subtotal : SGD 48.00 --------------------------------

Item : ADA Kurokinryu Stones SS Quantity : 10 Price : SGD 3.80 Item Subtotal : SGD 38.00 --------------------------------

Item : ADA Kurokinryu Stones S Quantity : 10 Price : SGD 3.80 Item Subtotal : SGD 38.00

[marimo]

My led light is testing in my old tank with pennywort, glosso, hairgrass, fissiden and secret plant ..
glosso is steady crawling, pennywort have new sprouts every often,
my frogbit is huge ! like 7 cm diameter and 20 cm long roots
other than that, the rest are doing average


i opt for seiryu rocks hunting along different shop as mizuworld didnt reply my request to pick at their warehouse for kurokinryu stones
Now I see them on the forum, they actually looks awesome ! very disticntive grey blue.
otherwise I will buy kurokinryu for its neutral inert nature.. very important thou
Now the problem i have is different tone of rocks after adding water.. sianz

Me spend about less than $20 for probably 7-8 kg of seiryu rocks..

my seiryu rock scape is going to hit very high on gH and pH (probably 8ish)
Not sure what can inhibit in that water parameter.. definetely not shrimps.
thinking of galaxy rasboras

[Ecalyte]

Hehe you alway 1 step ahead of me. How's your progress on led light. I find it not worth it for now.
I would love to learn something from your scape. I only use water spray on the rocks le. Unless mizuworld sell the wrong rock, I think should not be wrong cause they are quite reputable plus I pay quite a amount for the rocks.
I bought 2type.
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Item : Seiryu Stones S Quantity : 10 Price : SGD 4.80 Item Subtotal : SGD 48.00 --------------------------------

Item : ADA Kurokinryu Stones SS Quantity : 10 Price : SGD 3.80 Item Subtotal : SGD 38.00 --------------------------------

Item : ADA Kurokinryu Stones S Quantity : 10 Price : SGD 3.80 Item Subtotal : SGD 38.00

I have a feeling they sold you the wrong rocks.

Google image Kurokinryu and Seiryu and you'll see that the rocks you see are worlds apart from what you have. You have many brown-tinged rocks... I even see one white-orange..

You need to feedback to Mizuworld. All you have to do is group all your rocks by looks.. if you have more than 2 groups of rocks then you are definitely given the wrong rocks.

I've always had my reservations about the availability of actual Kurokinryu rocks..

[Ecalyte]

In fact.. The rock at the bottom right in your tank is neither Seiryu nor Kurokinryu...

[marimo]

let me guess .. a mars rock?
lol

i haven't had time to upload any photos or what .. but i spend so much time treating the rocks
because shadow advice is to have patience with rockscape.. and i probably running out ..zero

these are what i did .. to revive the dirty rocks
Toothbrush to scrap algae
Bleach kill whatever shyt
Boil kill whatever shyt bleach not killed
Steel brush to forcfully sand away nasty surface follow by copper brush (really sweating work)
Soak in vinegar to further erode the surface
tried to soak in coke .. my friend chu idea

I overdid it till from grey become white when dried . lol
but when its wet becomes grey again..