Errrrrr.....heeemmm...someone talking about me?
Here is the link telling about the cost, maintenance and picture from ugly to beautiful layout.

http://www.my-mac.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=670

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Added on March 22, 2007, 5:01 pmHere are 2 old layouts of my 6 feet tank. At that time was not really good in aquascaping yet. Just greedy and dump all kind of plants in...




This post has been edited by itssg: Mar 22 2007, 05:01 PM

Dude, the RM50 shrimp you saw could be the A grade CRS. That is consider a good price lor. Some higher grade CRS cost RM600-1200 per piece.

This post has been edited by itssg: Mar 22 2007, 05:52 PM

You can use a hose and connect to the outlet of yr filter..Once the water is coming out from the hose. Then you can just take it out from the outlet and place it inside the aquarium. Beside water change, you need to dose the liquid fertilizer and some trimming on the aquatic plants.

CRS is Crystal Red Shrimp. The first batch was released from Japan and arrived in Singapore years ago. A piece was sold at S$8000. I know there are some people said what is the point to spend few hundred to thousand ringgit for a small tiny fella? But when you are really into it. You won't mind to spend that kind of money. Just that you guys not yet how to appreciate the beautiful of CRS. Try to goto www.shrimpnow.com (I am one of the mederator there. But seldom post now.) and www.petshrimp.com for more info.

You can have a very low budget to up a planted tank. Gain some knowledge and experience first before you became rich and able to get expensive stuff.
I had kept the red, blue, purple and other crayfish before. You can't mix all of them together. Unless you have very big tank. Otherwise, they will fight and eating up the loser. Beside that, you need to have a covered tank. They will climb out through the wire of the pump or hose at the middle of the nite. Then you will find them inside your kitchen or toilet. They will sense which area inside your house is humid and wet. Then they will try to escape. What I did was by placing a plate of water nearby the tank. Then you will find one or two of them resting on the plate at the next day. You can have a pair in a 2ft tank. Prefer to have some gravel, rock and wood for them to rest and hide. They do like strong water flow and full of oxygen. They eat everything...like vegetable, fruits, smaller fishes, pellet.

what is 'fan shrimp'?

Having a shrimp tank. You need to cycle the tank for 1-2 months. Sometime you will need to take up to 3-4 months. If you are using some better products. May be just a month will do. Cycle the tank, planting some aquatic plants and dose the bacteria will help a lot.

Different shrimp will have different session. This session are with yamato, green, bee and red nose. Sometime will have malayan, tiger, cherry..etc. Those you saw in my tank are from another tank of mine. which was a shrimps breeding tank house with more than thousand of shrimps.

You need to travel to different lfs to get what you want.

All those planted tank lfs. Like Pet family, East Aqua, etc. Do more searching lar..

Like i said, they eat everything. You keep plants...they will take it as food. You keep other tank mate. They will take it as food as well. So, do you know the requirement of Paludarium or not? If yes, you will not asking me to keep crayfish inside Paludarium. Futhermore, Paludarium is open space. Crayfish can just climb out easily.

The only choice is a tank with few stones will do.

Paludarium is nice to keep the dart frog. and do remember there are plenty of plants inside the setup and remember what crayfish favourites.

if you dont want to have co2. then pratice daily water change.

ok ok...tai kor is back. Anything I can help?

Is that rock lime rock? If yes, planted tank is not recommend to use any lime rock. It will raise the PH.

pebbles are ok. drop few drops of vinegar on the rocks. if you see the rocks foamings/bubbling... mean the rock is alkaline. not suitable for planted tank. Unless you have the PH controller or water softerner equipment.

If you are doing like that...you need to fill in the ice all the time. And you are unable to control the temperature. The temperature will drop from 30C to 20C. 10C in short period and will kill all of your fauna and flora. If you are not filling in the ice, the temperature went up again. This is cause the trauma or temperature shock for your fauna and flora.

Not really. It is depens on what type of moss. I never trim my moss. And they never turning brown or die.

May be yes. May be no. Mosses growing different shapes in different water condition. If you get it from wild in (malaysia), then I roughly know what is that. But if you bought frm lfs n lfs also dont know. it is hard then. gonna send to lab to verify.

Geediver, which part of your tank cracked? Dont fix lar...just get a new one. The cracked tank can make it as vivarium... growing wild orchid and pitcher plants inside.
The mosses i send to some local universities lab. But not SG. I know you are thinking a forum owner in SG n helping to verify the mosses and liverworts. As I sent to him many times. He only helped me to verify 1 time only. And never send back any moss back to me as return. So...I give up. Since local lab have a link with the same professor in SG.

Michanz...The moss selling in AI could be java moss. Beside the weeping moss which require to trim most of the time. The rest of mosses, i never trim...