Last time I did blackout during raya. away for a week. I covered the entire tank with paper box and off the light. But not really effective. Maybe I should add some Excel this time.

shrimp and plants ... two u only can choose 1, cant really take care both well

yes blackout combine with excel is the best.

bro derick, you are right. +1

yes,

if u have cherry shrimp , than u may have both well, if u have CRS above u only can choose 1 .

cherry cheap mah .

But for me even cherry is cheap , i wont let them die , because they also have life

i intend control the algae, then start CRS after CNY. seems like the water is stable, Cherry survive. so it is time to upgrade.

cherry is alots of different compare with CRS . first water temp, ph . kh . gh , tds n etc

I've been looking for Akadama for AGES!!
asking around nursery (garden) do they have soil for bonsai, refer to Akadama.
what i get are same answers "any soil can do bonsai one!" with that look on their face
thinking i'm some crazy person.

Where got Akadama in Malaysia. let me know

Goodluck Bro!

i been playing bonsai so many years , we also never use this, never saw this before also .
but i will take the photo of the soil ask around and see

never try never know. sekali try, hari-hari mahu...

haha, yeah but you can also put it on the floor/ground/table but the short hose will be an issue if youre planning to hide it inside the cabinet which is really far below the tank level.

need to get a 50cm tank first to replace my plastic tank, already full of GSA on the front, and havent been trimmed more than a few months, just top-up water and a few days of fish feeding per week thats all

deric79k
bro, sorry,all ure RCS and their shrimplets died, maybe my pugnax eaten them in my tank

it is quite imposible to diff SAE and flying fox when they are still small.
if you found any method, please share here
i am sure lots of members would be happy

luqee : hoses can easily replace. can get replacement from LFS or hardware shop

yup i agree, last time when i was still learning, im really dunno the hose size, the 12/16, bla bla etc etc..haha

Hi, just look at the black line. if from infront until after the beginning of the tail then its sae. if the line stops at the beginning of the the tail then its flying fox.

nope. flying fox and SAE has the same black line extended to tail.
flying fox will have yellowish belly when they grown up. SAE doesnt.
they look alike when they less than 2inch

maybe OF algae remover? i been using it for quite some time.
cherry are safe as long as you put according to dosage. i only put 50% of recommended dosage, it will take longer but it works for removing BBA

So sad when I know it.

U looking for tank? I have one 1ft nano tank with light n hob filter air pump for sell. Want?

no they are different. flying fox will have yellow line above the black line. and the black line will stop at the beginning of the tail. the barbels for flying fox is 4 meanwhile for sae is two.

opps my bad. you are correct. flying fox will have the line till the tail. i thought false siamensis is the same as flying fox.

to give us a better picture, we will just look at their picture..


1) true SAE


2) flying fox


3) false siamensis


i think what we can do to identify the true sae is by looking at the black line till the end of tail and by looking at their clear fin.





This post has been edited by kiminha: Jan 11 2013, 03:03 PM

Thanks Kiminha. very clear with the picture. Seems like the "flying fox" i used to have was SAE.

which of these 3 better algae remover?

Which of these 3 take shrimp/shrimplet as snack?