Low-tech (non-CO2) tanks post your pics!

[Hilde]

Dimensions: 2 feet tank
Lights: T5 24w x 2tube

Is that T5NO or T5HO?

[siraj]

My 4 feet low tech tank plants r turning yellow even riccia has melted n dont seem to grow lush as before wonder whats is more essential the co2 or low temp of which both i lack of.please advice thanks.

[Hilde]

What is more essential the co2 or low temp of which both i lack of.please advice thanks.

The title of the tread is Low-tech (non-CO2)tanks post your pics!
Thus obviously this is the wrong thread to ask advise for. Lol Start your own thread.

[wongce]

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My 2 Feet titled ''RED EARTH'', non Co2, LOW TECH...

[KITTY]

hey wongce, where u got your plants?

[SeVenZ]

after going through this forum and staring at the tank at my work place, i decided to keep one myself!
bought some cheap filters and lights and a bag of shrimps. ( alr have the tank and gravel )
so this is my own super low tech tank!
what do u guys think ? is it sufficient for sakura shrimps?

[darter]

Just sharing mine.

Tank 1
1 ft tank
Eden 501 with Mr Aqua CR
Aquasonic LED light
Sudo fine sand
Water conditioner - Mosura Shizen powder
BB starter - Mosura BT-9
Additives - Mosura Old Sea Mud and BorneoWild Minerock

Flora - Java Fern on Driftwood

Tank 2
1.5ft tank
Dolphin cannister with Mr Aqua CR
Aquasonic t5 light
Water conditioner - Mosura Shizen powder
BB starter - Mosura BT-9
Additives - Mosura Old Sea Mud and BorneoWild Minerock
Benibachi black shrimp soil

Flora
Java fern on driftwood
Taiwan moss on driftwood

[marimo]

using iphone to take

Fire red 1 ft tank

Substrate
Riki Magic soil, Lava rock

Addictive
Old sea mud powder, BW minerock

Fauna
Fire red , Horn nerite, otto fish

Flora
marimo, glosso, Hydrocotyle sibthorpioides, Japan hairgrass, Hortwort, Pennywort, frogbit

[melthazor]

using iphone to take

Fire red 1 ft tank

Substrate
Riki Magic soil, Lava rock

Addictive
Old sea mud powder, BW minerock

Fauna
Fire red , Horn nerite, otto fish

Flora
marimo, glosso, Hydrocotyle sibthorpioides, Japan hairgrass, Hortwort, Pennywort, frogbit

No power head or hang on back? I was getting a lil worried because I just set up my 5l tank without one...and was thinking if I should put one in...

[felix_fx2]

No power head or hang on back? I was getting a lil worried because I just set up my 5l tank without one...and was thinking if I should put one in...

I think he took out before taking picture

[marimo]

didnt take out .. my HOF is on the far right, the pipe hidden by the branchy and hornwort
that nano is a 8l tank... shrimplets are healthy and growing

your 5 l tank should at least have a small HOF

gonna start another new nano tank , 25 l

[felix_fx2]

I said similar too.
IMO it is alway good to have. Bb in the tank itself sometimes is not enough.

[marimo]

yap , my HOF being there with about 20 ceramic ring squeezed in every corner i can since cycling.
then after WC or filter cleaning , add BB liquid back to HOF
ammonia and nitrite zero ever since.

so your 5l tank should practice that as small amount of water can become dirty fast and evaporation is fast.

[fireblade]

is the gravel save for plants??
there's lots to add to this scape!!

after going through this forum and staring at the tank at my work place, i decided to keep one myself!
bought some cheap filters and lights and a bag of shrimps. ( alr have the tank and gravel )
so this is my own super low tech tank!
what do u guys think ? is it sufficient for sakura shrimps?

[SeVenZ]

is the gravel save for plants??
there's lots to add to this scape!!

hahah that tank has been decomm-ed , as they say.
currently using a 2ft, ada soil , alot of other plants with sakuras,otto,neons,and guppies :/

[melthazor]

Ok...I'll add a mini hob...

[felix_fx2]

Ok...I'll add a mini hob...

Post a picture.

[diazman]

here's a quick shot of mine using hp camera . I wasn't really paying attention to the scape, just place the plants abit here and there and it became like this after roughly 2 months

[felix_fx2]

Nano, 2 day water topup until overflow schedule
Substrate:Ada2 only
Filter: Non (so small put what filter, how to wire power to outside LOL)
Oyama(Black covering 3 sides to reduce the over powering sun.)
Rocks: Non
Flora: Normal Hairgrass, abit glosso (which seems to all reach up for light ), Salvina natas, stragone sp
Fauna: Red platy juvernile
Date picture taken: 12/2/2011, 6.30PM
Note:Just added a few stalks of stragone sp (about a month) recently to take over the unknown stem plant, also have existing very annoying hair algae problem

I hardly trim this nano so most of the HG is like too long haha.



Here's another tank that is not growing well despite the better lighting.
Tank: Oceanfree 23CM
Substrate: Ada2
Flora: Glosso+HC , Hortwort, Salvina natas, stragone sp. (HC is crawling slowly glosso thou less at start has taken most of the place.)
Fauna: Red platy juvenile
Date picture taken: 12/2/2011, 7.45PM

[felix_fx2]

here's a quick shot of mine using hp camera . I wasn't really paying attention to the scape, just place the plants abit here and there and it became like this after roughly 2 months

Your left side moss very nice growth.
BTW, your cherry/sakura like to upside down too? their very weird sometimes and just idle upside down do nothing.