Haha the problem is the java moss in my tank is growing like snail, might be due to low lighting. But it shouldn't be any problem because i heard java doesn't require much light. ... Having CO2 and some soil, should be any problem. Just recently got "white algae" outbreak, thought it was snail eggs but nothing hatch and the white algae just grow bigger and bigger if untouch. Oto and shrimp don't even touch it, not sure what it is but i think the plants don't like it because some plant grow slower or no new shoot around the white algae patch...

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Added on January 18, 2012, 12:26 amTaiping... if for me i'll just go place that looks like lake or water ponding place, you might find some wild plant in the water.. got my fish from abandon lake. When going to those places try go in group, scare unwanted things might happen, just be careful.. I heard from my brother in law he got a lot of those Egeria Densa or some call Anacharis. It is free and if rotten you can just feed to cichlids, hehehe. Just wash it before putting it into your aquarium, might have a lot of unwanted object or creature, especially nymph.....

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Hey bro,i'm from taiping too...Why dont you get a soil and plant real plant .
Maybe i can give you some moss after i trim XD. Btw do you bought those DW at Taiping?Look nice for me

i found some moss in my garden..can it be used in planted tank ?

why having plastic / artificial plants? they will become black and start losing color in no time.
you wont go for any fake plants once you seen real planted tanks, huhu.

Just came back from africa, go back home and saw half of my planted become black color.
All fish died left one only.
huhuh

wah.. so sorry to hear that.... how long have u been in africa? got baring anything for ur tank from savannah?

Yes it will. However, food alone is not the only key factor to having healthy and beautiful coloration. As simple as it may sounds, you will need to take care of water parameter and ecosystem in the tank too. Good quality fish food is packed with nutrition, won't foul your water and require less feeding.

It can last you very long if you feed carefully and moderately. Usually mine last over a year and expire before I finish.

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Added on January 18, 2012, 9:48 amAny pic? Some can ie Singapore moss.

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been there for work, sometime 1 months but this time just for 10 days. my wife so lazy to take care my aquarium. sigh.
i found new soil... gajah poooop!
hahah
my planted..

Using artificial plants to lessen the maintenance. I've been fed by many horror stories about live plants dieing all the time. Also, for such a big tank, I'd need almost 2k just to setup C02 and other stuff for a proper running tank. Am running on 1k budget and below and that's not even counting the fish. Also, if I happen to go on holiday I don't want my plants and fish to die en mass like the poster above. Sorry bout that. Hehehe.

haiz.. same here. i cant trust anyone in my house to take care of my tank. they'll just leave it like that with excuse "im afraid/dunno how to touch ur tank" even after i gave the schedule. no need my tank la, even my simple plants in pot also no one wanna help take care like pandan and cili api. haiz..!! just help pour water only... people need to know how important to make earth green.

is all ur plants melted? no chance to revive?

Ic, hey thx for that info.
will upgrade the food later on. any advice as to which I should get? say the ingredients should contain? crude protein 45% above? shrimp ingredient included?

been to 8 LFS here and none of them sell shrimp/prawn for fish food...
got only see fire shrimp, cherry and yamato/oto shrimp. oto alone is already RM3 each here and that's just how hard it's to get stuff here in KK, Sabah..

i'll search more on water parameters and ecosystem optimum for the fish then

thx

haha...i m still finding the way to keep my shrimps alive after my 1 week balik kampung holiday...do u hv any suggestion?

IMHO, artificial plants need more maintenance. I been keeping fish + artificial plant,during my secondary school time (10years ago).
Artificial plants are very nice when you first brought it, but soon or later, algae will start growing on fake leaves and stems. you would need to take them out and clean it every week. That's where i gave up last time

My 3feet and 2feet aquarium is fully automated system. Lol.
Complete with solenoid, electrical timer, automatic food timer. I can leave home for about 10days without worry about it at all.
Unfortunately, problem is nobody help me to trim rotala, my tank will evolve into jungle whenever i go trip.
I only need to find someone to help top up water once every 3days only. hehehhe

food timer, cost about Rm35 at jalan pasar.
cheap and easy way to feed especially lazy ppl like me !

Meanwhile guys, my tank is very big and I kinda have a problem. My sand substrate is rather shifty and I am worried bigger fishes will uproot the fake plants. So I plan to keep only small ones like tetras, barbs and corydoras. However, with such a huge tank the problem would be algae.

I plan only to use those small golden plecos. Will say 6 or 7 of them be enough to keep my tank moderately clean?

since artificial plants doesnt have any roots, maybe you should tie them with rock first before buried them into sand.
tetras would be good idea if you want schooling fishes. cory does dig hoses and uproot plants.
small golden plecos will clean green spot algae that grow on glass. i dont think they will go for harder algae such as BBA or hair algae etc.

Thanks for the quick reply. Most if not all the plants I bought are already fitted with weights so I think that's not much of a problem. What IS a problem is that I use the sand to cover up the fishing weights I used on my 'tree branches as per the picture below. Incidentally I bought an Ikea spotlight to make a more natural sunlight look. However, I'm worried that it might get too hot and overheat. And are submerged lights gonna be a problem? Been toying with the idea a bit.


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anybody got spare seachem purigen for sale ?

I only need about 10ml

prefer to cod pj area by this week

i saw a few brands, but not sure how much will it feed. but 1 things can confirm is the hole is big and my shrimp tank only 25cm, sure it will over feed.

heh, i got timer too. but no food timer. >_< well... for a week, so far i never had a fish died starving at least so far. the only thing is, POTASSIUM!!!!!!!!!!!! heh, i dont know but usually i just leave my tank just like that since no one gonna take care of it anyway and so far nothing been wrong so far even without potassium (shorter photoperiod). i dun have any problem to topup water also since my water evaporation rate is damn slow unlike using fan. just, afraid of algae if it occured anytime during my absence and when i came back... walla!! algae took over the tank already (crossfingers.. so far never happened)


hurm, i dun know about CRS but my other shrimps never die also for one week holiday previously. they wont get the best buffet of course, but the tank usually have something for them to much on naturally.... oh, and as long no electrical blackout happened during my away time, i wouldnt worry so much.

what is your current aquarium water temperature?
my 3feet is at living room and if never use fan then temperature might go up until 29C.
It is a bit high for cherry tank.