1g National Geographic Easy Clean

Reviews online said the 'easy clean' feature merely stirred up the detritus rather than flushing it out so I made an undergravel filter. A lot of people fault UGF for pulling detritus down and it getting stuck there, well this tank drains excess water from the bottom so...

Bump: The hood has what appears to have mounting locations for some kind of light, but for as long as this product has been out, there has been no sign of a light accessory to get for it! So... that had to be modded as well.

At a 2" distance from 28 LED usb reading light... the intensity is high enough for Java Moss to pearl.

Econde said:

That's a neat under gravel filter. How many shrimp are you keeping in there?

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There are 9 RCS. And apparently a piece of water wisteria that I temporarily homed in this tank had bladder snail... unintentional infestation. I'm now planning a 2nd NatGeo 1g in order to have a clean tank to clean/move stuff one at a time from this tank in order to redo the tank without the snails. The new one will be quite different from this tho. I have some proper planting substrate and learning from a few things from this one I realize I can do high light ground cover and what not.

Oh yeah, and tho the Eheim Substrat Pro is cycled, I continually do a drip water change. Over a week it's usually 1/2 gallon water change, but lately I've been doing more than that to fix my TDS for the shrimp. Airline and water are in a cabinet above. I used to drop diluted ammonia water when I was cycling the tank.

Nice growth.

Just under a month and some have finally matured. Good thing i started another tank a week ago, this ones gonna get crowded.

I have the same tank with shrimps......

I have eco-complete as gravel and some pool filter sand.

Using the side overflow container as my media and floss holder.

I dont have an pic to demonstrate something like this

http://imgur.com/a/qSVn8

Edit:
Forgot about this. My first youtube video when I did setup it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4O5XFR8JQgg

Updated the lighting in the hood. I found there are a couple different lights using the same shell, but different leds. The original light I was using had smaller leds in a black shell. These are brighter and now two of em can fit after removing the plastic shell.

I know for sure i have 2 males, 3 berried females, and the remaining i think are immature females. I had thought it was even split but more have rounded out and gotten saddled. So I may have 2 males and 6 female. This is gonna get crowded in about 1-2 weeks. Every time I see a molt a few days later another female gets berried...

5 were berried on Friday, and today all 6 females are berried. This is start of week 3 for the first female that berried, so should be seeing fry soon. The walls are all covered in algae, I've been blasting lights at it from the sides as well as the lights I installed in the hood, so I haven't been taking photos cuz I can't get any clear shots till I clean it. Gonna wait till after half of the females have hatched their eggs and transfer to a new tank before I clean the algae off.

Eventually I want to get all the shrimp outta this 1g and into my aquarium at home and into my neighbor's aquarium, besides the new 1g. Then I'm gonna tear this down and nuke the snails and stuff that came in on that wisteria. Then I'm eye balling 10 Blue dream or blue velvet. Rinse and repeat lol. Everything going according to plan I'll have a good stock for the 20g when I set that up in May. If my tank at home and my neighbor's goes well with the RCS, then I'll just move all of the RCS home (relying on neighbor as a backup in case one or the other tank crashes), and replace them with some 24k yellow neos, so I'll run some blue and yellow at work(two 1g tanks).

Weather is gettin warmer, the moss will pretty soon be moved to a container pond which I'll be doing some outdoor fish breeding with (if I can get a starter group).

V2 under way.

I've actually played with the new NG with Floramax for a month, but opted to go back to my original undergravel design. The ability to just suck out detritus without grave vac was pretty ridiculously awsome. And ultimately I don't need a plantable substrate as I'm growing out moss and shrimp for other tanks here.

Substrat Pro buried in the middle. The original was all Substrat Pro, which was excessive. It's a canister filter media. Gravel to better keep the shrimp from going under... tho actually v1 they were getting under via the openings in the uplift tube that I opened up so they could come and go as they pleased. If they get under in v2 then I'll open up the UGF flow director like I did v1.

Lower UGF plate, the original had a lot of unnecessary space.

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I have an order coming in from BucePlant. A lot of flame moss, also some more mini xmas moss. The mini xmas I got off amazon from LUFFY was like 90% dead now that I see what parts are growing. I thought it looked nice when I got it but ultimately very little of it was viable and now that the living parts have grown it's possible to see how much of it was bad.

Really needed the mini xmas to come later when I reset the current 1g, but shipping... over $99 was free. Also 20lbs of Ohko for the 20g.

BucePlant is weird, they have different payment options if you're on mobile... Paypal or their checkout on both desktop and mobile. But if you're on mobile you also have Amazon checkout available. Weird, if I'd know Amazon was an option then I'd have ordered the rock sooner when they were selling it cheaper.

Good stuff, now where do i keep it... In retrospect, the portions are sufficiently large that 2 flame moss would have been plenty... I got 4.

Starting to eye those Dream Blue Velvet and Golden yellow shrimp. Must... resist... tank has to cycle and mature! ARGH!