@ chuppy,

no la.. coz i planning to change my light too.. currently using cheapo 9W only T.T glosso dun wanna carpet

Plant to give out in melaka.

everyone seem to be still busy with CNY.

not aquarium shops. is those electronic shop.

@chubby. ohhhh... thinking to get 1...

ok~ going there again~ also need to find some bracket for attaching fans to my aquarium.hope can coold down even a lilte.nowadys KL getting hotter and sometimes got heavy rain in the evening but still quite hot

what plant ?

I not sure what name.Got 2 kind of rotala , wallichi and 1 moddle plant.

anyone know where to get red crystal shrimp with reasonable price in kl/pj area ? ...

seem like all shrimp out of stock due to CNY @@

today i saw bubbles floating up, so happy. then look closer, its actually the algae thats pearling. lol

my water condition

ph:6.4
kh:3
gh:<3
no2:1
no3:10

is my tank cycle already?

who got riccia to give away?

This post has been edited by NewbieBetta: Feb 10 2011, 12:40 AM

Guys, did u shift your planted tank before?
How to shift?..

3 times, 1st was a 1 feet, the last 2 was a 2 feet tank...

But I literally tear it down to make it safer so I won't break the tank and you must have a few buckets or big thick plastic bags at the ready, 3 in my case. 1 for the fauna, 1 for flora and 1 for the soil or gravel and I just use a thick plastic bag for my biological media.

Before you start, best if you stop feeding for a few days and starve the fauna first cause they will shit a lot during the move because of the stress, it'll contaminate the water they are in and decrease their chance of survival.

1st drain half the tank and pack your filter, all the accessories, lightings, bio media and fill the buckets with the tank water
2nd take out all the plants, trim them and put in bucket no 1, leaving only the gravel or soil.
3rd catch all the fauna and put them in bucket no 2.
4th drain all the water and put the gravel or soil into bucket no 3, make sure to get strong buckets cause the substrate weights a tonne. If your using gravel, this would be a very good time to rinse and clean them throughly.
5th clean tank.

Finish...

I moved my 2 feet like that for an 8 hour trip from Klang to Kuala Terengganu...
I had 2 german blue ram, 12 pink danios and 2 ottos if I remembered correctly.
No fish casualty during the move

One thing you need to remember is that the more active the fish the less likely they will survive. Cause I had 70% casualty of tiger barbs on my last move which onl took 5 hours...
Another is that since they will be transported in very little water, you need to watch out for the fluctuation in temperature which can kill the fauna.

This post has been edited by radver: Feb 11 2011, 05:25 PM

wow! that is expert experience! haha.
Meant i cannot remain my aquascape anymore?that gonna too bad!

If you have the man power to manage the heavy lifting of your tank with all the hardscape and flora inside you can try keeping the scape and moving the whole tank... Then you'll be more expert then me...

Others have experience moving whole aquascape, especially for competitions like what they did during aquafair last year. But I don't know how they did it...

I got some question about aquarium. whats the pros n cons of having glass aquarium and silicon aquarium as an fish aquarium ? anyone can enlight me ?

Its not silicon aquarium la, its acrylic aquarium...

Pros
Acrylic = light, cheap
Glass = scratch resistant, stays clear forever

Cons
Acrylic = easily scratched, gradually becomes blurr over time like fogging up like that
Glass = heavy, cost more

>90% of the people here use glass aquarium IME

Yeah.I think have to take out all the scape.Too bad.Cause i have to shift in 3 months time.
Thank you so much



BTW if I wanna change the plant type but it's already grown so can i just cut the plant left the root inside the soil and plant with new plant?

You won't be the first one to do that cause I read it before somewhere, but IMHO you will need to consider the nitrate build up from the roting roots and whether your tank can handle it or not, especially if you've got sensitive species in your tank such as CRS.

And make sure you cut deep enough or the plant will just regrow from whats left of itself...

thanks

den hav 2 choose glass ady. planning to start a 2 ft tank.