good day mylica
how are you there? hows progress for your tank?
me too a beginner for planted tank,
currently have a super low tech 45cm tank and
2 feet tank is working on it now.
90 x 32 x 45 cm tank you have, how much you pay for it?
as my boss wanna have a tank at her new office too
the size should be 90 x 40 x 55? cm.. Do LFS have those size of tank?
thank you so much ya
Hi, havent setup my tank, as i am still sourcing for the rest of item, plus i will be oversea tomorrow for a week. Hoping once i am back, i can sort out all the items needed and kick start the tank and will update some picOriginally Posted by paul poon
My tank is custom made, together with cabinet by N30. Try www.n30.com.sg they can give u a quote
Managed to get my light, at some small shop nearby. Will start buying the rest and planting next weekend.
Back to my setup after busy weeks. Planning to buy substrate tomorrow. Do I need to use powersand and aquasoil amazonia? or can i just use aquasoil amazonia? ADA powersand is really expensive. And do I need to use substrate additives?
Saw a packet set: Do i need all? For low tech with excel
ADA Power Sand S
ADA Aquasoil New Amazonia
Bacter 100
Tourmaline BC
Clear Super
Penac W
Penac P
Last edited by mylica; 24th Jan 2014 at 20:19.
List of plants:
Java Fern
Anubias
Cryptocoryne
Swordplant
HC if possible or Elocharis acicularis (dwarf hairgrass)
I'd prefer dwarf hairgrass, just saying. What crypt ?
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If you are running a low tech setup without Co2 injection, and with mostly slower growing above substrate plants, then its not really necessary to use all those additives... though there is no harm to add them if you have the budget.
Do note that if you use powersand with aquasoil, both will tend to mix together over time (some powersand may also pop up on top of the substrate during planting work, so need to push it back down), and in the future you wouldn't be able to separate them and re-use the aquasoil on its own again.
Decided to get the package without power sand. Hopefully it is available at petmart.
Hope they have the plants too
Managed to get the aquasoil, some borneo woods and rock. Tomorrow morning need to get the plants. It is damn tiring getting all this items. Not young anymore
Just finish setup since 3 pm. Filling water was the longest, and i made a mistake. Setup canister wrongly, it floods my floor, need 4 towel to make it dry. zzzzz.
Water still very cloudy, only sword plant and dwarf grass at the moment. Hope the water will be clear in days time.
Do i need to do water change every day for now?
You can. But I dont
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If you have a filter with a high flow rate and good circulation, the cloudiness will usually disappear within a few hours... if the filter isn't as strong, then it might take a few days to clear.
Its not necessarily to do water changes every day, but at least a regular weekly water change is recommended.
Most people who do frequent water changes during the first few weeks when using new ADA aquasoil are usually because their plant density are low at the start and they want to flush out the excess nutrients that their plants can't consume quick enough, so that it maintains tank stability and helps to prevent algae taking over.
Need a fair bit of effort to keep up with those frequent water changes though.
Just did some measurement. PH is about 7.2 and Ammonia is 0.5 ppm.
Once water is clear i will post picture. Still need to buy heavy rocks, as one the driftwood not stable and it was floating :s
Some white fungus developing on my driftwood, read some article and said it will go away eventually. Should I need to do some action?
Nope. Or you could add some shrimps or oto
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You can scrape it off if you want to..
You can try getting from N30. They do have stock sometimes. I got mine with my tank.
Cheerio,
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Ammonia reading still at 4ppm after 2 weeks
Hi mylica, I think u need to do major water changes ~50% every 2-3 days. Ammonia release for aquasoil is quite high at the beginning phase.
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Close to 4 weeks, my Ammonia reading is 0.5 ppm now. Seems i can put fish soon. I noticed i have one very tiny snail. Should i remove it? or let it b? Probably from the plants that i bought 4 weeks ago
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