WELCOME TO THE PLANTED TANK THREAD VERSION 4

- FYI, the first edition of Planted Tank initiated by nezumitaro
- All this is taken from the previous thread, thanks for those who did it.
Planted Aquarium V1 - http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/429955
Planted Aquarium V2 - http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/1008287
Planted Aquarium V3 - http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/1241871
Below are picture of tank/tanks by members based on their appearance in previous thread;

1) nezumitaro

2) crazymouse_yyh

3) SweetPuff

4) darkages

5) geediver

6) coldfusionpower




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7) michanz

8) dildream

9) ldragon

10) mudz

11) DiverGenCe

12) kenichee

13) pinchboyz





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14) chong82

15) rySse

16) presario316

17) kashikitsu

18) optimyst83

19) hihi

20) paan

21) the_catacombs

22) WeSLeY





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23) newjack

25) usermode

26) playerseeker

27) red_dream83

28) tenchi0205

29) chuppy2

30) SengCheong

31) rySse

32) Zangetsu




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33) trickZ

34) pioneer411

35) fongzai92

36) blinded

37) shortpants

38) xcrue

All these pictures is taken from previous thread, credited to nezumitaro for the 1st thread and pinchboyz for the 2nd thread.
If anyone i miss out or what please do let me know.


This post has been edited by michanz: Jul 1 2010, 11:37 AM

Starting a Planted Aquarium
Basic hardware to get
1. aquarium tank

2. filter
- hob filter

- canister filter

- Bio ring/bio ball/cotton/substratpro

3. lights

4. co2
- co2 pressurized cylinder tank

- bubble counter/diffusor/reactor

- diy co2



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Creating a Nature Aquarium


1. 5 element
- Bacter 100
- Clear Super
- Tourmaline BC
- Penac W
- Penac S

2. Aquarium Soil
- ADA Aquasoil
- ADA PowerSand

3. Layout/scape
- rocks
- Driftwood

4. Plants

voila! after few weeks



picture credits from google. none of these are pictures i taken.

This post has been edited by michanz: May 17 2010, 01:41 PM

dose too much and ur growing algae. so id say get some algae eaters to eat the hair algae and start dosing next week

if u have the cash to spend then go for DO AQUA ! they have NPK

niasink! different tanks will have different requirement, no 2 tanks are the same, same size?yeah but different types/amount of plants will need different requirements for ferts/chemicals/waterchanges/water conditionings or whatever.

so its up to the tank owner to get a feel of their tanks.. monitor tank conditions, water parameters algae sightings. with just monitoring the types and amount of algae that grows, u can learn alot about ur water parameters.. see what algae you got, google up and read why u have that particular algae. from there u try to alter the conditions of the tank, less ferts? less co2? less lights? or the other way round?

so no one can tell you use this fert or add that much quantity of co2 specifically, people can recommend you to try this or that, well use that as a basicpoint and try and see how ur tanks react to it, from there u alter a little the changes according to your tank..

basically most of us will have to go thru trial and error. see what suits ur tank best!





it is sometimes normal for shrimps to be agitated, either ur tanks isint suitable yet for shrimps, filter not mature and etc,

or just that the shrimp from the shop is already used to the tanks in theshops, now u bring them home they have to get used to your tank water condition pulak..

i sacrificed about 30 - 40 shrimps just to test out my water.. my tank got stable and shrimps start to breed only afer 1 - 2 months i set up my tank..
all u have to do is read up more on their requirements and how to implement it in your tank water conditions..
with a little patience you'll have them breeding!

next time take out the water keep in in a baldi, rscape without the water in the tank.. then masukkan new water 50% then take it out again.. then u slowly slowlyslowly slowyly pour in the original water u took out earlier..

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Added on April 2, 2010, 2:20 pmhaha i did that too last time, buy some then campak in tank to test my water.. about 40 shrimps later then oni i know my water is good enoufh!

1ft tank has about 30liters? i think less? maybe 25liters?

my calculations based on chuppy, (dontwant take blame if wrong so points to chuppy) is ur tank 25 liter x 10 - 12 = 250l/h - 300l/h filter is neede

This post has been edited by michanz: Apr 2 2010, 02:20 PM

never submit before so i dunno lolx..

ask chuppy! he every year submit one

then ur filter is very powerfull! hehe

why do u keep it in the plstic? means that ur neons had shrimp cocktail for dinner

still alive ar u? hahaha

they do jump! once in awhile ill see a dried up shrimp on the floor! brings me to tears! hehe

snap a pictue show us ur tank

nice! now u know whats the next step? CRS!!

izzziit?? i swear i heard 10 lolx! hahaa im mistaken then

my apologies chuppy

moving further or nearer to us? heheh

damn cheap right.. soon il make mine

whatever size u want

haaa pyramid aquarium??? sunway pyramid? nothing there leh

aquarium inside is bad fengshui? they say put aquarium inside room bad bad fengshui...

ur hairgrass i recommend u to seperate more.. like 5 or 6 grass per hole.. then spread evenly across! got co2??

and yeah like fonglengzhai said, get mosses! ask fongzai to harvest from his tank.. tell him his 1 overgrown edi! push him to harvest hahah

alot wat? hehe


@foxngn - feed them what? ur moss so green and healthy

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Added on April 2, 2010, 11:24 pmFTS PLS

This post has been edited by michanz: Apr 2 2010, 11:24 PM

use what to shoot? dslr ah

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Added on April 2, 2010, 11:33 pmwhen wana go for crs?

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