ralliart12's "Garden by the Bed"

[ralliart12]

[14litre]

Nice! Are those bubbling from the plants? very cool.

In these still pictures, the bubbling looks like the stars in the night sky.

[deric79k]

i saw you have few stalks of Bucephalandra Plants , what species is that ?

[ralliart12]

Nice! Are those bubbling from the plants? very cool.

In these still pictures, the bubbling looks like the stars in the night sky.

I hate to disappoint you, but those "relatively large" white spots you noticed, are actually dust on the water surface! I used to think they were either O2 bubbles, or CO2 bubbles, until I saw the speck of dust land on the water surface in front of my eyes

i saw you have few stalks of Bucephalandra Plants , what species is that ?

Nothing fanciful, they are simply smaller units of:

• Lamandau Green
• Lamandau Purple
• Melawi Blue
• Melawi Apple Leaves
• Sintang

[deric79k]

all is nice plants. for me i like purple and the melawi blue , they are very nice

[limz_777]

notice that there are no fish inside , do you supplement ferts ?

[ralliart12]

notice that there are no fish inside...

You are right: I didn't intend to keep any fauna until quite a few months later. However, due to certain situations happening in the tank, I may need to introduce some specific species soon.

...do you supplement ferts ?

As of now, I'm not administering any fertilizer. I should not right? I'm using AquaSoil, which should have some nutrients to last me for a while, right?

I do have a layer of base fertilizers as a foundation at the very beginning when I set up the tank.

I'm actually quite clueless to all these fertilization concepts. As a matter of fact, I'm a newbie to this entire planted tank subject matter.

[Ifish]

This is so impressive, what is the name of the thick short plants in the foreground?

Is your light on 24hrs a day?

[felix_fx2]

Plants do take fert from leaf.
Good job on the 1st dsm try. Pictures how long after full flooding?

With high co2 enrichment, you can keep melting at the least.

Pearling very nice under led lighting right

Did you journal all your tank attempts including this nicer one?
One fine day down the road, take a walk memory lane. It will make you feel awesome.

[14litre]

I hate to disappoint you, but those "relatively large" white spots you noticed, are actually dust on the water surface! I used to think they were either O2 bubbles, or CO2 bubbles, until I saw the speck of dust land on the water surface in front of my eyes

oh! but somehow the dust did make it nice from the pictures.

I took another look and I see what you meant by the dust on the surface now.

but there's still some bubbling (or pearling) right, like the ones in this picture which I believe it was taken from the front.

I liked to see those bubbling/pearling, its always so amusing to see bubbles coming out continuously from the plant, with a trail of it.

[mincedmeat]

Where did you get bucheplandara plants? Any "lobang"?

[ralliart12]

This is so impressive, what is the name of the thick short plants in the foreground?...

They are hemianthus callitrichoides; commonly known as "HC".

...Is your light on 24hrs a day?

If you are asking with regards to the context of my HC lawn, then the answer is that they were achieved on a 10-hour-per-day photo period across approximately 7-months of DSM.

After the tank was commissioned (flooded & batch #2 of the plants were introduced), the photo period has since been adjusted twice.

...Good job on the 1st dsm try. Pictures how long after full flooding?...

This is actually my 2nd DSM attempt; the first was wiped out completely by BGA. I'll try to provide you with a more specific time-window when I sort out my notes.

...With high co2 enrichment, you can keep melting at the least...

Let's just say that HC-melting isn't my concern right now. I sort of administered something terrible to the tank.

...Pearling very nice under led lighting right ...

I will say pearling will look impressive under any form of lighting. But yes, for a newbie like me, returning home every night to a lawn of HC with their tips each trapping a bubble like morning dew on a field, is very pleasant.

...Did you journal all your tank attempts including this nicer one?...

I'm still sorting out the contents, notes & photos for this deployment. So yes, it is likely I'll have more content to publish in the future. I didn't really have that many setups to journal previously.

...One fine day down the road, take a walk memory lane. It will make you feel awesome.

Not really, I discover I tend to get lazy & make a lot of mistakes during my setups, especially this one. Every single moment I'm regretting a certain no. of oversights for this particular commissioning. Once I list them out, you will get what I mean, i.e. I have made some very painful mistakes from which I'm paying the price for currently.

...but there's still some bubbling (or pearling) right, like the ones in this picture which I believe it was taken from the front...

If you are talking about the "patch" of very fine bubbles in the empty water column above the plants, I believe that's actually the regular discharge of accumulated carbon dioxide from my filter outlet & not pearling. Because my filter outlet holes are pointing significantly downwards, eventually some "pockets" of carbon dioxide will consolidate inside my spray bar, & when the air pockets get big enough to "catch" the filter outflow current, the bubbles get whacked back into their tiny form & discharges into the water. This isn't by design.

...I liked to see those bubbling/pearling, its always so amusing to see bubbles coming out continuously from the plant, with a trail of it.

Yes, I agree with you, especially those pearling trail that is literally continuous, i.e. a dotted line of bubbles. I saw this phenomenon first time at Bioplast & I was super amused by it. However, in my tank due to the strength of the water-flow, I do not see these continuous flow unless I turn the filter off.

Where did you get bucheplandara plants? Any "lobang"?

Isn't someone peddling them in his/her signature recently?

But anyway, I got my batch from another contact. But I may have mentioned this before: that C328 & SeaView has been spotted carrying this family of plants recently. Though when I dropped by C328 this afternoon, I no longer saw any hanging for sale.

[ralliart12]

Hi fellows. My sincere apologies for not updating this thread as regular as I should. Some time after the commissioning of the tank, the project has ran into a couple of dire issues, of which one is rather catastrophic.

At the moment I'm still searching for the tenacity to carry on with this project; so I hope...that I have something nice to report in a few months' time. Otherwise, I may be taking a super long break from this aspect of the hobby.

[felix_fx2]

Cause your administered some thing, as per some of your replies to me?

Slow down, not take a break la.
Time to ease to a low tech and enjoy: D

[ralliart12]

Cause your administered some thing, as per some of your replies to me?...

You mean chemical-wise? Nope, at least not as of the last time we spoke (via private messages). But recently, yes.

...Slow down, not take a break la.
Time to ease to a low tech and enjoy: D

I may not have "paid my dues" (so to speak), in order to switch to a low-tech tank, i.e. I set out to attempt a sophisticated project, & switching to low-tech tank just because I cannot achieve a standard I want, to me, is simply a mark of laziness.

Don't get me wrong: I'm not saying folks who opted for low-tech tanks are lazy; I'm saying if I switch simply because I sucked at high-tech projects, then I am taking the easy way out. Perhaps, perhaps one day when I fail hard enough with my high-tech project, I'll take this route? But not yet.

[ralliart12]

Question #1: Is it al right to store SeaChem Excel Flourish in transparent bottles such as the one shown in the following photo:



Is its chemical components photo-sensitive, i.e. easily altered due to light exposure? Will it make a difference if I store it in the fridge, i.e. chilled?

Question #2: May I know how do I plant species that comes with large tubers (instead of roots), i.e. the dwarf lotus families? I've read elsewhere in the forums that a portion of the tuber should not be buried; yet, even if I bury the entire tuber, I notice once the adult leaves catch the (water) current, the tuber is easily up-rooted?! Examples of tubers as shown in the following image (okay, I'll admit this is a poor illustration, since the leaves on this pair are mostly gone):



Question #3: May I know how to trim over-grown dwarf lotuses? Will it be prudent for me to simply trim away all but one or two of the leaves whilst hoping the tubers, like rhizomes, will be strong enough to keep generating new, young leaves?

[Discuslover]

Very nice!

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[cherabin]

Internet literature does indeed suggest Excel is light sensitive and i would lean on the safe side and store it in an opaque bottle.

[ralliart12]

Internet literature does indeed suggest Excel is light sensitive and i would lean on the safe side and store it in an opaque bottle.

Oh dear, I stored some in this transparent container (from DAISO) because I thought the spraying is a much more effective method of introducing Excel into my water column. It's time for me to look for opaque misting bottles.

[ralliart12]

I understand that this question may be slightly out of left field, but does anybody have any idea how heavy a standard 2-foot tank, containing 12 litres of ADA AquaSoil but no water, weighs?