My vote goes to eheim classic - unless you want to go for premium brands like ADA or the chihiros.

If you want to do night aeration, and don't want to lift and lower your lily pipe manually every night/day, then you can consider what I'm doing.

See pic.

Its a U-pipe connected to an air tube, which is connected to an air pump. Once the CO2 cuts, the air pump switches on. But you need to be careful about water doing a backflow when the air pump is off. Water could backflow and fill your pump instead. So you will need to put in a one way check valve and raise the tube like what I did.

Let us know if night aeration solves the film problem.

I'm using night aeration too, but its not for any film.


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All shrimps eat algae and leftover waste. Only question is how much?
Ghost shrimps are not safe to crammed with Danios unless its a planted tank with lots of hiding places.

Yamato shrimps are popularly used as algae eaters and they are safe from Danios. They are bigger and won't be picked on.

Nice, nice... Nice scaping

As it is, your cherries won't survive as guppies will nip at them. But if you add moss, and heavily plant it, they will survive, but unlikely to breed as they will be constantly hiding and under stress from the guppies.

But its such a waste not to have shrimps.

Hey, nice tank btw. Good choice with an ADA 60cm cube garden. Its a pity for such a nice aquascaped tank, and you're not using the aquasky light.

Yes, you can add shrimps without risk of being eaten. But your tank is only 2-3 weeks old. Only the Yamatos are tough enough at this stage - wait at least 5-6 weeks (up to 8 weeks) to add RCS.

All shrimps eat algae. For me, for your tank, Yamato shrimps are a good addition. They are quite big (2 inches). Cherry shrimps are also nice. And later you can add the usual bee shrimp and others.

Moss and shrimps are a perfect combination - like their natural habitat. But I would not add moss to your tank. Yours is an aquascaped tank - moss will only mess it up after a few months. They grow like weeds, invading every part and unless you are prepared to do the weekly pruning, weeding, then don't add moss. Your tank is already heavily planted enough.

A bit off topic, but do google mini fissidens. If you grow them on your drift wood, they are simply perfect in my opinion.

You should be dosing the full range of ferts by now. As someone mentioned, you can use EI or simply go ADA.

Taking the driftwood out of the tank is no longer an option since its already flooded.

Just cut the fissidens into a 2cm x 1 cm strip. Then drain the tank until its about half to give you better access to the drift wood.

Then use fishing line to tie the fissidens on to the driftwood.

That's it.

Hi artsy,
Can please PM me where you got the mini fissidens for that price?

GDA - are you referring to Green spot algae? The one that stick on the glass? Or green water algae - the one that makes your water green?

Let us know how the blackout goes. I did a 60 hour blackout before, but it was to clear BGA (Blue Green Algae) - and it was fantastic. For green spot and green water, I didn't blackout but controlled via lighting, but I would be interested to see how blackout goes.

Nice. But where is your green dust? Your rock is still in its original gray color. I thought with a bad case of green dust, the rock would be green

Hi seeseewhy,

Would suggest to drop by one of the specialty shops and they can advise you from A to Z - that includes the tank, substrate, additives, light, pump and even the plants, rock, driftwood and scaping.

For your budget, you can try Pets Wonderland in Ikano. Best to go on weekdays.
Or if you really want to do it nicely and have the budget, go to ADA showroom. One stop, and they will help you with everything even up to the layout, lighting period and dosing schedule. If you choose to go the ADA route, be prepared to pay - but you get result. Otherwise just do window shopping for knowledge gathering, you'll learn a lot by talking to those guys.

Aquacult is based on Penang. I bought some buce from him. Certainly recommended.

Well you still can relive your childhood memories At FRIM, I caught a couple of long clawed shrimps, and put them in my tank. They were about 1.5 inches long. Also caught cherries but it may not be appropriate to publish the location here. There also another very interesting local fish - the Boraras Maculata that is native to our land, but I don't know where to catch them. Would really be interesting if there's a chance to catch some worthwhile shrimps or fishes.

Not cherry barb. Cherry shrimps.

Congrats. That's a nice feeling isn't it?

No reason why it won't hatch, but it will be a few weeks before you see the first fry. They are cute as anything when you first see them.

I have Eleocharis sp mini, rotala red vietnam, christmas moss, monte carlo, 2 types of buce, mini fissidens and one more plant I don't what it is.

This grew by itself when it hitched a ride with my monte. I quite liked it, so I let it grow. Any idea what plant is it?




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Yes usman, I use CO2.
I remember you used to find some interesting plants at the sungai. How did they work out?

Nothing peculiar with buce except that its a very slow growing plant. I like the slow growth because no need to trim - but some people say watch out for algae, but I don't see any issue with algae either.

Hi psyduck,
Water lettuce needs to have lots of light. I planted this before.
Try this. Fill up an empty bucket with normal tap water. Put three water lettuce in the bucket and then place that bucket outdoors, in your garden, but not in a direct sunlight area.
Water lettuce cannot have direct sunlight either which is too strong for it.
Come back one week later to check on it.

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