lol... more expensive than building sand-yes
but overly expensive-no, affordable la.
good or not arr.. i like its colour and it inert good news for shrimps. hehe

previously u were saying sth about testing with vinegar... what test was that? can u share? how to test as well?

very basic test with white cooking vinegar can drip it on stones or, for sand just put vinegar in see thru container and put sand in.
just to test if it will raise the water hardness. if it sizzle(can see white bubble forming rapidly) most likely its not safe for ur shrimps.

shirui sand right? if so, im using that too if it's safe for shrimps namely RCS & CRS then good news for me

Owh I see.... thx 4 sharing this piece of info. Any scientific explanation to this? Why will it sizzle etc. Any idea?

Good morning kakis..

good morning bro cute_miao.... in nihon-land?

In nami island now...waiting to see north korea missle flying across.....lolx....its a good saturday...time to rescape...

By the way, how to post my pictures in forum??

mmm... logically it should be like this- our planted tank is acidic-mildly, if the stone or sand react to this mildly acid water it will slowly dissolve into the water increasing its hardness. the cooking vinegar hav a much lower ph- more acidic, thus if the sand or stone react to cooking vinegar the reaction will be much more violent hence you can observe the bubbles. where as if its in ur tank, it react at a slower pace hence you might not notice it until-death shrimp.

you have made the right choice

PICs!!!!! after rescape!

I normally upload it to photobucket and then copy the img link and paste it here. Dunno how others do it. There may be other ways.

Ooooooohhh... thanks sifu for taking time for explaining.

u can't post it directly. but you can indirectly do it via photobucket or any free picture hosting website. u can then link it here using the http or img buttons.

set up this on tuesday, what should i do for now ?
When should i do a water change ?

lol... at the " what should i do for now ? "

1st week - daily water change
2nd week - water change once every 2 days
3rd week - water change once every 3 days
4th week onwards - water change once a week

what moss is that btw? java?

This post has been edited by melodyworm: Apr 6 2013, 01:48 PM

hahhaha thanks for the tip

If not mistaken it's flame moss.

looks good
mind sharing price and where did u buy your tank?

This post has been edited by jiejian: Apr 6 2013, 01:53 PM

o.0... dont look like flame moss... oh well.. all moss looks the same in the initial stage hahaha...

The tank is 280 if not mistaken, it came with a normal filter & Amazonia 2...
Bought it at 88petsmart sunway mas.

The soil im using is Amazonia 2 & power sand .. I mixed up during the rescape
I'm using a Fluval C2 HOB filter on the current tank

maybe it's not as healthy as before.. it should be curl like curly fries

i did not run the tank for 3-4weeks due to the wall plug failure caused by my Aquazonic fuse blown..