my aquarium water still yellowish after lots of water change.why huh?

any driftwood ?

no.only ada soil and glosso.maybe need more frequent water change.hmmmmm

what soil you are using?

is the soil new??

Anyway just got my self CO2 tank and ehiem canister.
latter will post some picture.

This post has been edited by aBc!!: Mar 8 2011, 11:11 PM

amazonia 1 u need to do several WC until it clear. just water cycle about 2 weeks before u start putting fauna.


@abc : jangan menyebar toxic !

guys cn do planted with hardy plants n simple setup? without the soil n co2 n all? jz use sand and light n hardy plants?

get those plant with rhizome, such as anubias sp., java fern, java moss, windelov fern.

okay.my tank is 2.5ft i wana put the sand that bit biger particles look like mini gravel n a light then get the plants that cn tahan tiz set up.

1.wer to get this type of plant in kl area?(few options near sri kembangan,bkt jalil or town pls)
2.wt light do i need to get n hw much?
3.do i need anyting else as minor adition?

Thanks guys.

get stem plants, they can grow in gravel...

can refer to the first page of this forum, got list of LFS

Lights you will need those in the spectrum of 6500K, and IMO around 50watts as a low light setting

You will need some fertilizers, better if can get in tablet forms such as JBL ferrotabs. Less chance of overdosing, if cannot find, just get liquid fertilizer, JBL Ferropol but dose only half or quoter of the recommended dosage.

But IME you'll face a lot of algae problems...

question one im clear.(btw you should change the hp num of atlantis safari its 016-2227772,gming)
very nice guy n good at planted tank advice and all.he cn set up very nice planted tank 4 u.he got those plants u recomended only one or two he dun have so i have to buy else wer...

question 2,hw much wil it cost?

question 3,JBL ferrotabs wun coss algae? if i face algae prob wt cn i do?

P.S:i wana put in fish...big fish.pls sugest i got a few chana in mind...

Lights for 2.5ft I don't know, I only have a 2 ft tank... should be around RM150-200.

IME, Ferrotabs less problem, cause its released slowly into the tank. Ferropol will straight go into the water column. All of us have algaes, we use algae cleaners like Yamato shrimps, Siamese algae eaters and snerite snails. But you want to keep very big fish, it probably eat them all up...

The biggest fish I've heard being kept in a planted tank is arowana...

You should ask yourself which is more important to you, the fish or the plants???

If its the fish, then you should go to the monster fish forum and tell them to recommend plants for your fish.

If its the plants, then I personally would recommend you to keep smaller fish, not chana AKA monster fish...

show us some poison~ how much did u get for tht co2 tank?

i actually keeping monsters very long(im even growing up two baby arapaima in grow up tank) but i juz got interested in the planted tank...
since im doing just a simple planted tank with less plants i juz use the ferrotabs and get few plecos....wah light cost soo much ah???....

Plastic plant don't require anything

Err... Ok

Yes, the lights very expensive one, or you can DIY using T8 fluorescent tubes. Just get the philips 6500K bulb that cost 8 per tube of 18 watts.

then the fertilizer you put around 1/4 of the recommended dosage la. Since slow growing plant and the tank is not fully planted. But the plants won't grow as nice lo...

philips 6500k is good.hehe.il go with those.n ferts i jz put 1/2 lah.the tablet one rite.okay.thanks guys.a friend promised a 4ft cabinet stand so i wud maybe jz get the 4ft tank n set up in that.yeah...im going crazy bout fishes AGAIN...lol

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Added on March 10, 2011, 5:14 pmbtw,the chanas i were refering to are nt big type.for example the chana stewartii only grows 10inch max these types are the ones im considering...

This post has been edited by Arawin92: Mar 10 2011, 05:14 PM

btw, may i know this T8 u referring to is how many ft?

i tink it should be 4ft...

usually T8 1feet is how many watt?