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First Planted Tank: Iwagumi

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Day one: last week 07/26/2012


Tank: Fluval Flora Kit
Filtration: Fluval Nano (kit) (carbon pack will arrive soon)
Lights: (2) 13W Fluval Compact 1 from kit
Substrate: Fluval 8.8 lbs
C02: Fluval C02 system (kit)
Layout Materials: 4 lbs of ADG Ryuo Stones
Flora: Dwarf Hairgrass

Maintenance: 50% water change everyday using RODI water
PH Drop Checker arriving this weekend

Day 7 (08/03/2012)



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Can't wait till the grass carpets...
Planning to add RCS, Amanos, and an Oto in the middle of August...
 
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Day 21 (week 3)

Algae on the rocks diminished, introduced some Red Fire and Neon Yellow shrimps, they're doing a good job...
I'm a bit worried about the my Oto, it has redness around its mouth. Did some research, it seems I'm not the only one having this problem... Hope he'll be ok... Still doing 20% water changes every 2 days...
Checked water today: All parameters are good except ph, it's a bit low, will reduce CO2 injection.
There's a bit of cloudiness, don't know why, maybe its the shrimp food dissolving, my feeding dish will be arriving soon. Hopefully it will help...



Shrimps seem happy...



Runners Pic...
So far so good... You can see the little improvement from previous week.. Little is a whole lot better than none
 
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Thanks guys, I just bought these DHG at petsmart, they are topfin brand... I just read Frank's journal and followed the basics, e.g water changes using RODI water...



I'm just thinking of letting things be and wait, I don't want to throw things out of balance, not sure if trimming would do so, but I just don't want to mess things up right now... :smile:

For Fauna, I think these would do right now, not sure if the filter can handle more...
 
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