i think they stop schooling after they determined that they are pretty comfortable with the tank and got too relaxed and wandered off

i've seen better schooling results in a community tanks where there are other schooling fishes around. so maybe security might made them to stop schooling as much?


just my thinking.

thats y need to stand by rotan

put in some cichlids as a hawt teacher

Well i do have an active flying fox that previously help me on the algae, and still kicking strong... probably it may help... lol...

Do UV light and biological filter goes hand in hand? Some say only use 1, as UV light kill of the bacteria....Any idea?

What plants are suitable for a neon tetra tank?

After 5 days

Nice. Let see if it crawls

Any idea yet what is this?

海藻面膜籽, I read it from a china planted tank forum, someone did that. It will form a carpet real fast, but it will continue to grow larger leaves. It grows vertically, so don't expect it to crawl like MC and HC. They said just trim it to keep it low, but noone knows how long it can survive.

hello sifus, any of you have any experience with ludwigia sp red exotica ( Hemigraphis exotica) ?

i bought 2 pots but 1 pot is already gone, 1st the leaves drop then the stems rot away..

is there any special way to grow this?





This post has been edited by Vio: Mar 2 2016, 12:14 AM

The special way is not to grow it submerged because it is not an aquatic plant.

thank you for confirming, been googling around and all i can find is that this plant is nt an aquatic.

asked seller again and was told it can be fully immersed and also its a rare plant.. haiz..

I don't use UV light for that reason. The bacteria colony is so important to a tank's balance.

Well, I'm using a canister filter with built in UV light though. The UV light is covered hence it will not affect the biological filter. I read that UV light only works to eradicate green water algae, which I have not observed in my tank but my tank does have other kinds of algae growing...

to my best knowledge, uv lights are to control algae. usually its located after the biological filter (ie the outflow port). this is to ensure that the water that flow into the filter is still filled with the ammonia that the beneficial bacteria requires to live on. hope this helps.

Does you tank has the green dust algae? The one stick on tank glass.

i has it

anyway to prevent it?

Me too, I did blackout one, and it worked for a week, then it comes back again. But I only did one cycle, usually requires 2-3 or more cycles to clear it depend on the severity.

UV is one of the way to remove it.

UV light not cheap le

blackout? then the plants inside there how?

i also got shrimp inside