Member's Tank Specifications

Aquarium setup

1. Tank dimensions: 4' x 1.5' x 1.5'
2. Lighting: 3 x 30W FL Lights
3. Filtration: Internal Filter
4. Extra equipments: No CO2
5. Base fertiliser: JBL
6. Gravel: Lapis


Flora:

Aponogeton longiplumulosus
Anubias barteri var. nana
Anubias gracilis
Blyxa Japonica
Crytocoryne Balansae
Cryptocoryne wendtii ''brown''
Cryptocoryne wendtii ''green''
Echinodorus Oriental
Echinodorus tenellus
Echinodorus 'Red Flame'
Hygrophila difformis
Microsorum pteropus 'Windeløv'
Microsorum pteropus
Nymphaea lotus var. rubra
Java moss
Erect moss


Fauna:

Cardinal Tetras
Espei Rasboras
Cherry Shrimps
Malayan Shrimps


Routine
1. 20% change of water every 2 Weeks

Gallery
Refer to gallery '4ft shrimp tank'

Other Information
Temp at 26-28 degrees

Aquarium setup
1. Tank dimensions: 2' x 1' x 1.2'? 5 Plan Tk
2. Lighting: 1 x 36w pl
3. Filtration: Dolphin H300
4. Extra equipments: DIY Nutrafin CO2 (change every 10 days inorder to keep the CO2 Up). 1 x 12V AC fan 24/7 - Temp about 26 - 27 1/2 C.
5. Base fertiliser: 1 "Peat Moss laced with Laterite
6. Gravel: 2" Lapis gravel with root monsters near heavy feeders

Fauna (Total Added since setting up)
1. 4 x Cardina Tetra
2. 6 x Rummy Nose (1 died and 1 MIA)
3. 10 x Otos (2 died of disease 3 MIA)
4. 4 x SAEs
5. 2 x White Cloud Minnows (1 MIA)
6. 2 x Dwaf Gouramis (Baby)
7. 1 x Goby (Unknown Strain)
8. 1 x Dwaf Pufffer
9. 100 Malayan Shrimps (Now in 2nd Gen I think. ROB unknown as can't see all of them. 1 or 2 die every 3-4 days).

Flora (All surviving)
1. Hygrophilia Corymbosa (Keepping it low by frequent trimming of shoots)
2. Anubias NaNa (Trying to grow some in the gravel)
3. Rotala Macrandra (Bought 1 pot about 8 stems initially growing well so trimmed by cutting and planting the top and removing the old stems. 2 rot away and Only 3 triving at the moment)
4. Vallisneria Spirallis (Getting out of hand)
5. Hygrophilia Difformis (Getting out of hand so Just trimmed only leaving the stems a few mm above gravel. New shoots are forming.)
6. Blyxia Japonica (got this from brother, split 2 stems from the mother plant. Mother plant melted away while the 2 new stems are doing fine)
7. Althernanthera Reineckii (Just planted for about 4 days)
8. Riccia Fluitans
9. Elatine Triandra (Triving very well, carpeting the fore ground)
10. Micranthemum Micranthemoides
11. Rotala Indica? or Bacopa (doing very well)
12. Rotala sp. Nanjenshan (Mayaca Sellowiana) (I think) (Triving very well)

Routine
1. Weekly 50% water change
2. Fert. - 5ml Seachem Flourish every Water Change
1.25ml Seachem Flourish trace every day
1ml Seachem Potassium every day
1ml Seachem Iron every day
1 teaspoon of Sodium Bicarbonate to keep KH at 4 - 5 dh every water change.

Gallery
- Will post once I can get my hands on a DIGIcam. (Old one up the bus)

Other Information
- Feed fish with Hikari Flakes 2 x a day
- Top up with water from Koi Tank every 3 days
- Had experience BBA and Greenspot initially but now BBA under control while greenspot is reducing.
- Tank about 6 weeks old

rgds
Sean

[johannes]

Aquarium setup
1. Tank dimensions: 40x23x25 cm
2. Lighting: 18 Watts PL light 6500K
3. Filtration: Eheim 2213
4. Extra equipments: Hanna Instruments pH meter
5. Base fertiliser: Sera Floredepot
6. Gravel: 2-3mm gravel

Fauna
1. Trichopsis pumilus
2. tiger shrimp
3. bee shrimp
4. yamato shrimp
5. malayan wood shrimp
6. blue shrimp
7. otocinclus affinis

Flora
1. Dwarf hairgrass
2. Dwarf anubias
3. Dwarf amazon swordplant
4. Java fern
5. Java moss

Routine
1. twice a week water change (20%)
2. if nothing to do try to do daily water change (20%)
3. replace liquid fertilizers accordingly

Other Information
-pH 6.5-6.6
-dKH 4
-temperature 26-27 degree celcius
- DIY Nutrafin CO2 system (last for 2 weeks)

Aquarium setup

1. Tank dimensions: 4' x 1.5' x 1.5'
2. Lighting: 2x 150W(6500K) MH + 2x 30 W FL
3. Filtration: Canister Filter with biohome, ceramic rings, wool, sponge
4. Extra equipments: CO2 cylinder, UV-C , Eco-aqualizer, aerator
5. Base fertiliser: JBL
6. Gravel: Lapis, Seachem Florite Red, JBJ Red Gravel, Aquaclay, Peat Moss


Flora:

Amazon Frogbits
Giant Duckweed
Blyxa Japonica
Microsorum pteropus 'Windeløv'
Java moss
Amazon sword
Red plants(Rotala Magenta I think)
Glossostigma Elatinoides
Camboba
and 5 other type of plants(forgot their name)

Fauna:

Cardinal Tetras
Yamato Shrimps
Cherry Shrimps
Discus(s)
Neon Rainbowfishs
Corydoras(s)
SAEs
Otos
Tiny ramhorn snails
Tiny Pond snails

Routine
1. 50% change of water every week
2. Fert. -
15 ml Lushgro-Aqua per week
1 ml of Lushgro-Micros every 2 days
3. 1 tablespoon of Sodium Bicarbonate per week after water change


Gallery
Refer to gallery '4ft curved tank'

Other Information
Temp at 25-28 degrees
Feed bloodworms, tetra flakes, tetra granules and sera microgranules.

Aquarium setup
1. Tank dimensions: 4ft X 1.5ft X 1.5ft
2. Lighting: 2 X 30W FL
3. Filtration: Dolphin C700 Canister Filter
4. Extra equipments: 2 X 4 inch Fans on DIY aluminum frame, Nutrafin CO2 System
5. Base fertiliser: Nil
6. Gravel: Approximately 50Kg of lapis gravel

Fauna
1. 34 Black Tiger Barbs
2. 33 Albino Tiger Barbs
3. 06 Gold Barbs
4. 06 Rosy Barbs
5. 06 Clown Loaches
6. 03 Golden Algae Eaters

Flora
1. Hornwort AKA Ceratophyllum submersum
2. Wisteria AKA Hygrophila difformis
3. Pond Penny AKA Lysimachia nummularia
4. Amazon Sword AKA Echinodorus bleheri

Routine
1. 5ml of Seachem Flourish Excel every other day
2. 5ml of Seachem Flourish once a week

Gallery
- See under my gallery

Other Information
- Water temperature @ 25.0 ~ 25.9 degrees
- 3 liters of water top up everyday

Aquarium setup
1. Tank dimensions: 2x1x1
2. Lighting: 36W
3. Filtration: Canister filter 500l/hr
4. Extra equipments: 2x DIY 80mm fans, Yeast CO2 + internal reactor
5. Base fertiliser: JBL
6. Gravel: Lapis

Fauna
1. 22 cardinal tetras
2. 6 otos
3. ~10 yamatos

Flora
1. Hemianthus callitrichoides 'Cuba'
2. Anubias barteri var. nana
3. Cryptocoryne wendtii hybrid
4. Lobelia cardinalis 'Small form'
5. Hygrophilia corymbosa
6. Some unknown rosette slender leave plant

Routine
1. Water change every week
2. 1ml seachem flourish after water change
3. add 1ppm of KNO3 to tank everyday.

Gallery
Dec 2ft Rescape

Other Information
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[armageddon]

Aquarium setup
1. Tank dimensions: 5 X 1.5 X 2
2. Lighting: either 2 X 55w or 2 X 36 w depending on the mood of that day
3. Filtration: series-- dolphin 700 and resun(dunno wat model)
4. Extra equipments: co2 reactor to dissolve more O2 for my fishes
5. Base fertiliser:non
6. Gravel:bare bottom

Fauna
1. 11 altums
2. 3 normal angels tank.
3. getting cories and hopefully some platies soon

Flora
1. nanas

Routine
1. 2 cubes of froozen blood worm every meal.
2. water change as and when i happy

Gallery
- will be up very soon. altums gallery in my gallery

Other Information
- first time doing a typically 0 maintence planted tank setup. first small step into doing planted do not wanna add gravel is because next time when want to do planted, removing of gravel will kill and also doing water changes do not want to bother about gravel yet

Aquarium setup
1. Tank dimensions:2x1x1
2. Lighting: 4x15watt FL 10hr photoperiod
3. Filtration: Internall canister
4. Extra equipments: DIY Co2 inlined to power head
5. Base fertiliser: Cocopeat
6. Gravel: Black gravel

Fauna
1. most probably Algae eaters and and ghost shrimps
2.
3.

Flora
1. glossostigma
2.
3.

Routine
1. water change 10% everyweek
2. using Lushgro series of fertilisers after water change
3.lighting period broken into 2 periods of 5 hours

Gallery
http://www.arofanatics.com/members/g...ewscape271204/

Other Information
it is in my gallery and in my intial set up. will update when the glosso have grown in. Will scrape the tank when my semester ends of algae infestation which ever is earlier.

[WiNd.feNg]

although quite old thread, let me post my tank

Aquarium setup
1. Tank dimensions:2x1x1
2. Lighting:18W PL light
3. Filtration:mini power head wif small sponge (jus to circulate water)
4. Extra equipments: nil
5. Base fertiliser:no base fert used, liquid fert every 4wks
6. Gravel: mixed old gravel from other tanks

Fauna
1. 3 zebra snails
2. 2 badis
3. 2 Otos
4. 2 Wood Shrimps
5. 5 Cherry shrimps
6. Platy fries -______-!!

Flora
1. NaNa
2. Taiwan moss, java moss, xmass moss, erect moss
3. App
4. Crypts(2types dounoe wad)

Routine
1. no water changes, just top up daily
2. lights 12hrs
3. fan 24hr


Other Information
- pH 6.5 - 6.7
- tannic

Aquarium setup
1. Tank dimensions:2.5*1.5*1.5
2. Lighting:3*18fl
3. Filtration:jebao cannister 800/hr
4. Extra equipments:co2 tank
5. Base fertiliser:jbl base fert
6. Gravel:lapis sand

Fauna
1. 11 yamatos
2. 1 oto
3. 1 pipa
4. 70-80 cardinals
5. 1 blardy puffer
6. croaking gouramis
5&6 planning to move to another tank
Flora
1. tiger lotus
2. dwarf hair grass
3. hydro diff
4. E. quad
5. 2 unknown
Routine
1. top up water weekly
2. 2.5ml scoop of k2so4 mgso4 weekly
3. 7 drops of trace elements weekly
4. 1 pinch of kno3 weekly