mine is 4ft tank

kiminha: most welcome. its a good product u have there.

weijie : i was afraid u r going to say that.. haha...

kiminha : no probs. any time is fine. will get the next batch from u after u r back.

Here's some pics of my aquascape
I hv to said that HC grow rate is extremely slow =.="

I love HC...

My HC start to pearl. I will show u the photo later.

But if u ask me how to plant I can tell you I just depend on luck.
I put Co2 and in air cond room.

And i put 3 types of fertilizer...

LOL...

for those having BBA algae problems, you may try keep some
Apple snails or be sold as mystery snails , i bought 9 for fun, and they totally
unexpectedly eat all the BBA on my filter outlet , air hose and wood,
but be warn , they have huge appetite for food although they won't touch your live plants and shrimps, they will compete with your fish and shrimps for every food throw in.
Good things they unlike ramshorn snails won't breed readily and actually need a pair in order to breed.

if want to know can use or not, try to pump co2 directly into the indicator. if turn to yellow means OK. but pls make sure to mix with 4dkh water for right col our indication.

sound like SAE is a threat to my shrimp. How about flying fox? are they effective on removing algae, and are they threat to shrimp?

correct bro..i bought from him.. HC same with other carpet plant such as glosso,hair grass and so on... im using pressured co2 tank.. first 3 month since setup i never add any fert and fauna..after that i add fauna and dry fertilizer buy from mr. kiminha.. he said that I was the first to try the dry Fert from him.. damn ! i did not know that he is testing the product in my aquarium..haha..but nevermind..that fertilizer give me a very good result like what you've seen now..just need to maintain co2 bps.. my tank temp 28c-29c and light just on 6 hour a day since i setup..pH? gH? kH?? never check..haha..dont to make my kepala pening..hehe.. u need to plant HC with powder type for the best result...because akar HC ini pendek.. mine just use normal type.. - Happy Planting - 

jpy16,000 is about rm640.. its not cheap in jpy T_T

i just bought Seachem Flourish Excel and treated my 2ft tank as recommended by LFS. added 5ml each day. now is day 2. shall I add another dose in tomorrow. Worry about overdose.

jaga-jaga...

i tried it b4... i din over dose it, and in fact, since i knw how strong it is, i reduced the dose...end up riccia turn white..

Hi guys, anyone have any recommendation to remove Blue-green algae?? my tank suddenly full of Blue-green algae might be because of my dirty filter. Already washed my filter, removed Blue-green algae using tolls (some small chunk fell back in), have Amano shrimps, Red Cherry Shrimps and Oto in it too. Still no reduction of Blue-green algae but growing back... Guess all the shrimps couldn't eat it and filter not removing it either...

Dose nitrate won't that make it worst?

Ow ya, doing 1 day light and 1 day off sequence and 1pm - 8pm, which I guess is low lighting for the plant to grow is that bad? or that is minimum for the plant? tried put 9 hours but mostly have lots of other algae issue..staghorn, hair, Black Beard Algae and green spot algae...

im just starting this hobby, so i try with the simple one first. but i have several question;

can neon do well with guppy?
cause i have several pair of neon + guppy in one tank but i have trouble to feed the neon. cause when the flakes at the top of the water, guppy will eat all of them.

any tips?

no worries cute_miao. for the sake of planted tank!

also i think after visiting so many shops in jpn, i think my problem is the co2 too little... even though i'm planting echinodorus / java fern and some subwassertang, rotala najenshan, i very envy the tanks that gives off a lot of pearling at jpn stores. so i came to conclusion that my tank not enough co2 coz i only pumping about 2bps. there is one tank i see superb pearling but the co2 bubbles like no tmr... its 6ft la... ahaha must be 5bps or more...

btw, i seems that the japs like a lot surface agitation... hmmm.... natural co2?

so this weekend go back.. i will start to pump more co2... muahaha... see wat happens.

Guys, Is BGA hard to cutre? The local aquarium shop here say it is very hard wor

What is nitrate? Sorry, i didnt set my tank myself as i paid someone for it so i know next to nothing regarding aquascaping

Which one is better for my tank to get rid of BGA?

Put medicine or blackout?