My journal on my planted 422 CRS tank (in progress)

DAY 13

Today OC got dinner with her friends, somemore knk off early, so proceed to be a farmer and do some planting for my HC.

planting the HC, the way everyone does.


Hweeee..... planting the HC in this manner is no joke lah. Spent nearly 3 hrs separating the strands and planting them in small clusters.

Got a pleasant surprise fm OC, call me ard 8pm and say wanna go 328? Off we went and i did some shopping, kind sponsor from my OC.

Got some plants for the backdrop


water hyacinth to soak up any balance nutrients


top view of my tank


my US Fissiden showing growth

Originally Posted by patson77

Got a pleasant surprise fm OC, call me ard 8pm and say wanna go 328? Off we went and i did some shopping, kind sponsor from my OC.

I need to teach mine to do that.
Nice purchases!

Originally Posted by JadeIceGreen

I need to teach mine to do that.
Nice purchases!

Hahaha.... No comment on this. U knw lah, ladies, unpredictable.

Originally Posted by JadeIceGreen

I need to teach mine to do that.
Nice purchases!

share the notes with me after u have taught yrs....

Originally Posted by af2373

share the notes with me after u have taught yrs....

Cannot ah, my method very expensive on our wallets. They bring us go LFS, we bring them go branded bags boutiques.

Originally Posted by af2373

share the notes with me after u have taught yrs....

Originally Posted by JadeIceGreen

Cannot ah, my method very expensive on our wallets. They bring us go LFS, we bring them go branded bags boutiques.

U guys are damm funny lah. Hahahaha

Originally Posted by JadeIceGreen

Cannot ah, my method very expensive on our wallets. They bring us go LFS, we bring them go branded bags boutiques.

errr.......no more branded shops for me. the last time i did this stunt was when i bought my dslr....

it was an expensive dslr

Originally Posted by patson77

U guys are damm funny lah. Hahahaha

I am glad we were some entertainment. Thanks for letting us OOT on your thread.

Originally Posted by af2373

errr.......no more branded shops for me. the last time i did this stunt was when i bought my dslr....

it was an expensive dslr

Maybe I should do this, I am planning for 5D MKIII.

Its been 22 days since I first started on the tank. The tank more or less had been scaped and will maintain as it is nw unless the granite rocks still leech minerals into the water. Pardon for the lousy shots

My FTS (water condensation due to low temp of 22)




Also got a pleasant surprise cos I saw my plants bubbling(even the algae)








HC oso spreading well and bubbling


A new plant given by my fren - wat plant is this? looks like a rose. so beautiful


As i had stop using the wavemaker(shrimp flying ard), thus added this HOF to the tank(sad is no place to hang so keep it on the glass plane support) to create more water flow
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Current inhabitants - 10 CHERRYYYYYYYYYYYY (but due to the size of tank 10 cant see much)

[cheetf]

Sorry didn't realise from your other post that this was your tank.

Bro any reason that you need your tank to be at 22C? It's quite a waste of electricity, there is no benefit from this temperature especially with nothing inside. If anything it will drastically slow the growth of your plants.

I seriously doubt that the rocks will stop leeching minerals. So if you intend to keep shrimps you might have to wait a very very long time.

The other thing that I found out the hard way is it is very difficult to have a planted tank to keep CRS, especially the higher grade ones. Plants have their requirements and these requirements don't necessarily match the shrimps' requirements.