hi there everyone!!!

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@148142
thank you for sharing the pic of your masterpiece. any updates?

just a few weeks ago, i made an overhaul of my 20g tank. Current status:
4" riversand
DIY-CO2
UGF/IGF


this is how my hood looks like. instead of the usual fans to cool off my aquarium i bought an exhaust fan instead.


this is my osram dulux L 55watts;6500k. does anyone uses this kind of fixture regardless of brandnames?


this is how my setup looks-like. i know, i need skills on aquascaping.

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I hope everyone is in A-1 condition including their tanks. Its been a long-time since i updated this thread. I've backed away from marine keeping for now because of what happened to my 10g experiment. Anyway, my newest project is a 75g kinda like low-tech/co2 fed/soil substrate/vivarium kinda-like aquarium.

backwards:
the last picture, my 20g tank (above thread) has somehow been transformed into something that i like but of course, its still a work in progress.



a walk into the future...

i added a betta and a swordtail, i bought some snails from an LFS and transferred some snails from my 20g to this aquarium. The snails that i bought are quite big and they have this tendency to wonder out of the aquarium, i just got lucky that everything i go outside i am able to spot some wanderers and pluck them back-in the aquarium.



a closer look


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my DIY-CO2 bottles. i used a glass bottle for the separator because the PH that i am using is quite powerful, it squeezes the plastic bottle.


prep for mineralization method:


any suggestions/comments/advises will be highly appreciated.

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Hi folks! its always great reading and checking almost every week updates on this forum. and i am learning a lot from the experiences each and everyone in this forum is sharing.

Now, i don't know where to put this thread of mine but i really feel like it belongs here since i will be doing kinda like an aquarium-pond setup. So folks please i am open to any suggestions/advises to be able to have some directions in what i want to do. I would just like to remind everyone that this tank is a work in progress.

Inhabitants :
2 spot barbs
1 corydoras
1 black moor
5 mickey mouse platty
2 black molly
2 SAE
5 choco gourami

2 DIY-CO2
1 OHF

Plants
hornwort
bacopa
najas gras
potamageton gayi
echis
watter lettuce
recently bought dwarf lotus with budding white flowers
peace lily (good nitrate absorber?)
egeria densa
a red plant
cryptos
cabomba
horse-tail
vallisneria

soon to have:
anubias petite
thai stricta
calla lily
---i'll be putting it in the rim of the tanks i just dont know if it will grow without any substrate..just like what i did with the peace lily.

dwarf lotus-will the leaves reach the upper surface of the water or do i have to cling it near the rim of the tank?

I guess its obvious that the plants are in pots and plastic cups since i am currently low in the dough, i guess this is a nice strat to get the plants acclimatized or less traumatized when i transfer them in the substrate. But some will stay in the pots others in the substrate.

I'll be using demineralized soil top with river-sand for my substrate. i will also be utilizing a UGF.

Thank you in advance for any response.

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I would just like to share my dwarf lotus with flower



now i am on the look-out for a calla lily.

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i am so happy with my new acquisition, the ludwigia sedoides



thanks for viewing guys, please do share your thoughts on my setup though its still a work in progress

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thanks guy for the information. I have a super duper updates of my tanks.

Sun-Fed 75g tank

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I just want to share my "works" in progress....and criticisms/suggestions/appreciations/advises will always be of utmost importance to me. Please bear with me, since i'll be posting 25 pics all in all..i want you all to see my tanks in its raw form...hehehehe. Just to remind the group, i really feel that i have very little aquascaping skills (or none at all) and as of now my goal is how to keep the plants alive.

I took a picture of the tank before i added the "river-sand" .... maybe next time i'll use pure soil as my substrate. Again, i mineralized it..according to the website i've read on how to mineralize your soil. I used river-sand because thats the only thing my money can buy right now. hehehe

I've noticed that when you soak your soil for a long period of time, the texture changes its kinda smooth and more compact in a good way. I can't help it i am a big fan of K.R. and i really love the idea of using soil as substrate because i like working with soil, i love to get my hands "dirty" actually, i really dont use gloves when i work in the garden. Since its a soil substrate, the snails seems to be just gliding from one end to another, i guess they're really loving it and seeing them doing it gives me a very good feeling especially when i see their trails.

I bought the following plants below in a place called "cartimar" here in Manila. Its really a big place full of aquariums and other pet-related stuffs. I said to myself, i'll try growing again the red bacopa and the reineckki since these plants always dies on my 25g setup. But it had a twist, i put them in caps filled with vermi-soil, mineralized soil and river-sand and it looks very promising. i've never seen the plants grow roots so fast.

another example of plants in plastic cups. As you can see in the very first picture, most of the plants are in pots, i did it because back then i was still saving money to buy river-sand. Anyway, i removed some of the plants from their pots since keeping them in it only eats up space but i left a number of plants in the pots to control their growth such as dwarf lotus, vallis, horse-tail and echis.

Unfortunately, the river-sand i bought kinda look like cement sand hehehe. since i still have some white-sand and volcanic dust left i mixed it with my river-sand.

The start of my grueling experience. I have a peace lily hanging in the aquarium many believed that its a good nitrate absorber.
my peace lily para nitrate absorber.

look ma, containersssssssssssssss!!!!
Whenever i would do a WC, i always use the water from my aquarium to water my land-based plants so as not to waste anything.

As you can see the aquarium is filled with floating plants such as najas grass, water lettuce, and many more. I did not throw away my excess plants just yet because i will need it to hasten the cycling process and establish colonies of good organisms.

The (un)finished product. hehehehe

Actually, i only have a small idea on how this aquarium should look like but for now i need to master how to grow plants first. As you can see in the (un)finished product, there are no directions where the aquascape is going..hehehehe

Again, thanks for viewing please feel free to share your views.


25g tank

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this one is with me for more than a year now. A lot of things have happened with this aquarium, i removed some of the plants that are just too big or too long. So i just decided to make it a low light/low-tech tank. And i just love echis...

i have this long and narrow java fern, a new addition to my tank. And i recently bough a "pelia", the one in a square metal thingy, its not doing good.

I am open to any suggestions/appreciations/criticisms.

DIY-CO2 - 2 bottles
river-sand (sometimes i topped it off with soil)
1 55w PL and 1 CFL
lighting period is from 6pm-2am

inhabitants
danios
neon tetra
betta
molly
lots of shrims and snails.

Godbless everyone.

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Thank you all for the replies/comments/suggestions/advises/compliments, thankyou thank you thank you.

Finally, i was able to find the batteries of my digicam and i was so excited i took some pictures of my planted tanks eventhough its already very very dark.

I swear, i was never successful rearing the so-called "red bacopa", reinecki and green/red

cabombas in my 25g but here in my 75g it looks like survivors and the red bacopa is now sporting

big leaves but more compact and an orange color. My problem is how to trim the red bacopa, i am really scared anyone who would like to share their experiences with this plant? TIA



These is the other half of my 75g, its filled with low-light plants. And i am really awed by the power of the sun although this side its not always hit directly i can see that they are pearling Is it a good sign?



My 25g after a little pruning, i added a tenellus (is it correct?)



Challenge/s:
My 75g is sun-fed and i've noticed that the plants are in their "sleep" state when night time comes because most the leaves are "closed". is it harmful to plants if i turn the lights on at night? i do this because i want to look at it after i get home from work.

TIA for any response.

===TBC

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Pictures i took these morning









Enjoy!

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Question:
Are these good items for a high-lighted standard 90g tank? A friend of mine would like to make an aquatic garden full of mostly colored foliage.

2 pcs-T5 10,000k (55watts each)
2 pcs-PL 6500k (55 watts each)

or

3 pcs-T5 10,000k (55watts each)
2 pcs-PL 6500k (55 watts each)
2 pcs -PL 6500k (36watts each)

Please advise

TIA

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