Haha

I actually meant this.


Btw, I realize my 1ft tank temperature and 3.5ft tank temperature differs by 2 celcius. 1ft tank is 29.9 while 3.5ft is 27.9. I don't know if I can keep any shrimp at all other than ghost which is not desired.

This post has been edited by Malformed: Jun 5 2012, 10:57 PM

Hi,

lets say i measure my ph today it is 6.5 - 7.0 then the next day is 6.0 , whats does it means?
Do i have to measure daily?? to get the correct PH

Or measuring once will do the job

more info ,
1) what soil you using?
2) KH reading?

your above case look like ph swing normally due to low KH.

Hmm forget which soil i use a japan brand soil for plant, i never really measure the KH. Does it matters it?
Or is the 2 feet tank to big . SO that i need to increase the PH to get it stable.

but do you confirm your ph swing that much , if that the case try put two around 3-4cm long coral stone in the filter,
this will increase KH & PH , will help buffer your water at the time being, how long you using the soil?
japan soil the famous one is ADA soil. ADA soil normally low induce ph during the initial setup period.

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Added on June 6, 2012, 1:50 amPhotos as requested by fishman:

1) Noob time -just started


2) Trying planted tank , created forest , starting keeping shrimps.


3) Passion not on planted tank , remove most plant , HC , glosso , stem plant etc, converting to full shrimps tank(current look).
X'moss on tree have grow like burning bush covering top of the tank.


4) Shrimps feasting on top of tree.


5) Shrimps devouring 10cm long spinach.


6) 2nd shrimps tank with fluval ebi set


7) 3rd shrimps tank


8) 4th shrimps tank


This post has been edited by arrow: Jun 6 2012, 01:54 AM

Thanks so much for sharing! It's so exciting seeing so many shrimps. I understand now why sang gemok is so into your shrimps. I want to be a grandpa...fast!
Love the big bushy xmas moss as well. You need to tie that to a driftwood or something to get that effect?

ya, tight to the tree like driftwood from the beginning, from picture 1 & 2 the x'moss is already on top the tree trunk , after a year it take over the tree top and become current bushy look.

arrow nice shrimps and nice quantities too

arrow: IMHO, those are java moss, not xmas moss.

Erm almost 2 weeks le I juz change the soil tis week will be the 3rd week

either east aqua cheat me selling me xmoss as java or it is bcos some java moss come with shrimps broiught get logged on the xmoss, i checked
http://www.aquamoss.net/Christmas-Moss/Christmas-Moss.htm
http://www.aquamoss.net/Java-Moss/Java-Moss.htm

my moss do have both feature ... guess they intermarriage on the tree trunk.

erm, actually, if you seen the branches are wide apart, and front tip is growing upwards, it is java moss. i dont see any xmas moss in your tank pic 3 and 4.
picture 5 has too small images i cant see clearly.

This situation is very common in malaysia.
i had seen alive selling java moss as xmas moss to his clients too. me and gf just keep quite when the dishonest seller saying that.

that give me a reason to get the real Christmas moss to compare.

I also got my "xmas moss" from east aqua. Looking from the links and weijie's comments, seems like mine is also a Java Moss?

looks like java moss to me.

haahahaha . welcome onboard....let sail to east aqua, east aqua do have both x'moss & java on sale, wonder what the java bag contain? if x'moss bag
is java!!

This post has been edited by arrow: Jun 6 2012, 03:14 PM

wahahah. looks like java moss to me too. lol ~

this is what happening to us. sometimes, shop assistant doesnt know what time of moss they are selling. If supplier said it's xmass moss, that's what they should tell buyer. when they sell it in small patch, we cant figure out exactly what type of moss is it.

teru. teru wat yu sed. ai egri wit yu handred persen.hehe

don't dismay at least your java is healthy and shrimps love it. but i will inspect my tree moss, see if if it really java or be taken over by java.
cos last time i order one moss bridge from aquashop, they put come with java moss, but this java moss is very short and don't look like one in the link i provide.

anyone what moss is this ->