My Grass Land (56k)

[ikuzo]

i use flora pride as a temporary ferts, but i'm gonna change that into something better next week, should i stop it for a while without endangering the other plants? my light duration is 10 hours/day, should i reduce it?

here's the pic, what kind of algae is this?

[ikuzo]

added some Rotala wallichii last night, i hope it will survive..

[Casty]

I think that's green spot algae... but whatever it is, do something before its too late. Same thing happened to my Anubias, and now its COVERED in algae! Bleach dip or excel treatment would probably be good, or move it out of direct light (might be impossible in your setup though).

[ikuzo]

alright i bleached the anubias and decided to move it to a low light tank i'm currently working on. but there will be an empty spot there right under the big wood. what plant should i put there? is bunches of riccia a good choice?

[medicineman]

Is that black substrate "pasir malang"?

I hope you have clear idea of what kind of substrate you are using.

Pasir malang or volcanic sand particle might originate from any volcanic region, and I found out the hard way that some are not suitable at all for planted aquaria (seriously disasterous result). Not trying to scare you, because some have had good luck with the stuff.

Lets see.... some low growing crypts would do nice in the place of the anubias, surrounding that wood. Want to create wilder look? then try saggitaria subulata.

[ikuzo]

it is vulcanic substrate, i like it because it's black, round, and porous so that it will be great for root plants but pretty bad for stem ones because it doesn't hold that good.

thanks for the plants suggestions, i haven't decide yet, but i agree that saggitaria subulata is a nice choice.

[Dr.Nick]

Nice tank mate, hairgrass should look great when filled out, i did mine the same as yours and now i have a huge lawn after 2months (still little bares patchs)

[ikuzo]

2 months? wow, that's fast, i'm expecting mine in about 3 months or so to fill in. what did you do to make it fill in faster?

[ikuzo]

I put my zebra nerite snail from my other tank here this morning (07.30), which the back section of the tank is covered with green spot algae, and this is what i found (17.30) :


and here's the little dude

[Roc]

Just a word of cation, I just had my whole tank basic fail and killed every plant and fish in my 20 gal, the local plant guru told me that one piece of my driftwood had bark that slowly released "posion" into the water, I say this becuase I noticed some bark on your driftwood in one of the 1st pictures

[FelixAvery]

the snail missed a bit ;P
can we get a fts?

[Beancurd]

lol! Need to set up a 'snail-cam' lol every 5 min take a snapshot to show lil guy's progress!

^^

[ikuzo]

iroc
i really hope not, but this piece of wood isn't new. it has been a part of my previous tank setting for about a year.

FelixAvery
crappy camera can't show the detail if i took a full tank shot.

Beancurd
it would be fun, i check the little guy this morning, he's still hanging around at the back. i'm gonna check again after work, maybe take a shot of it see how it clean up.

[ikuzo]

ok a little update after i put this snail in my tank for about 36 hours :


now he's attacking the wood


by request, this is the full tank shot :


hairgrass close up

[ikuzo]

after wondering for awhile about why my riccia haven't grown out of the mesh, here's what i found out. my SAE is pulling them out from the mesh one by one and eating them!!!


so i decided to remove the riccia and replace them with some pelia. i know the rock and wood media are ugly but i can't find anything good in a short time.


see what happen when anubias nana is exposed to direct light. i removed it and place it in my other tank.


windelov taking the place of the removed anubias


here's my ugly DIY CO2 reactor.