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Well the link below is where I first found the heat pump for sale but the cost was a little prohibitive hence I hunted around to see if I can find similar item for a cheaper price. I suppose these heat pump was design specifically to be use for aquaculture and it is probably design very...

What if you connect it to a swirl filter to remove the solid first then filter it through a series of brush and mesh and foams before directing the water to the heat pump? I know for sure that this was used in big scale aquaculture but does that mean they have heat pump of a different calibre...

I've came across this product during my research for installing swimming pools. It basically work like a reverse air conditioninig unit where it extract the heat from the air surround the machine and transfer the heat to the water column it's meant to be heating up. It will work as long as the...

Just my wishful thinking and hoping that the dense plantation would have aided the shrimp in their survival. Well I'm so wrong. Even amano succumb to their little beaks! Anyway this is a long due update since the tank was setup. Sorry for the picture as it was uploaded on my iphone. Day 59...

Re: 3 feet tank now planted and scaped! Update! Filter seemed to be coping well with these level of stocking. The fish death so far seemed to be due to bullying or jumping out of tank! So far I've lost about 20 tetras and 1 SAE. The otos and shrimp were dying one after another till I find out...

Re: 3 feet tank now planted and scaped! Update! I've also bought some fauna to go in the tank and currently still undergoing acclimatising before releasing them into the tank. The list is as follows 1. 10 x taiwan fire red shrimp 2. 100 x golden harlequin rasbora 3. 5 x pgymy puffer 4. 26 x...

Re: 3 feet tank now planted and scaped! Update! Well just a quick update after a little over 2 weeks since the tank has been setup. The plants so far is doing ok. Some thriving and some melting.... But I suppose this is expected due to all the things that had happened over the last 2 weeks! Let...

Re: 3 feet tank now planted and scaped! Update! TPN lacks N and P. TPN+ has all the nutrients. :) I was dosing 10mls for 90 litres tank so this tank would be roughly 15-20mls I would assume. Considering there is literally no kH in my water and low gH, I think I'm going to start doing EI dosing...

Re: 3 feet tank now planted and scaped! Update! Done that. Running at 3bps now and dosing 25mls of TPN+ and lighting at 7hours a day at 150W besides that it will be 48W of T5HO. Just done it this morning and my HC started pearling! First time pearling with HC and this is without water changes...

Re: 3 feet tank now planted and scaped! Update! I think I have to agree with you on this one. After a long time of pondering on the topic, I've decided to go with a separate system for the chiller and the CO2 diffuser with the prefilter. The whole system linked together was causing too much...

Re: 3 feet tank now planted and scaped! Update! Sigh. I missed the day when all I need to do is hide the heater behind the rocks and job done. First time using a chiller and it's possing as more of a problem than help. I think I'll either separate the system or purchase a sump tank with an...

Re: 3 feet tank now planted and scaped! Update! I thought that the external water pump was designed to cope with potential backpressure? Isn't that the reason why they quote how many metre of head it can provide? If the waterpump can handle this backpressure, I would rather leave the system as...

Re: 3 feet tank now planted and scaped! Update! Thought about it but I think it will still be the same when I connect the chiller and the lily pipe. A pump rated 2000 litre would probably turn out to be running at 500lph under these pressure. Maybe I'll just invest in a big external pump like a...

Re: 3 feet tank now planted and scaped! Update! Sigh... This will mean that there will be 2 more intake and outflow pipe from the chiller system itself. I was hoping that I wouldn't need to resort to this. Maybe I'll just an over flow box and a sump to make it easier and scrap the external...

Re: 3 feet tank now planted and scaped! Update! The whole system includes 3 meter of 16/22 hose that interconnect the prefilter, tetratec filter, chiller and the hailea pump. I tried removed the hailea pump but the air that was trapped in the system caused the tetratec to leak from the priming...

Re: 3 feet tank now planted and scaped! Update! This is the video that I was referring to

Re: 3 feet tank now planted and scaped! Update! Thanks for all the input guys. I initially got this idea from a youtube video I saw where a guy had an external canister filter which was underperforming and then he attached a submersible water pump at the outlet and the system output increase...

Re: 3 feet tank now planted and scaped! Update! I did spent a lot of time cleaning the rock too. but the more I clean the rock the more it crumbles! I got afraid in in the end so I ended up using a soft brush to brush away all the mud. The tank this morning was crystal clear (thank god for...

Re: New 3 feet ADA mimic tank setup. (Pic heavy) 3 pots of HC split up 6 pot of pogostemon helferi in a plastic bag. Doesn't look a lot really Open up the bag. Now it looks a bit better When you split it up... Tada 3 pots of blyxa japonica 3 massive pot of crypt. undulata red When you...

Re: New 3 feet ADA mimic tank setup. (Pic heavy) Plants arrived this evening from aquaspotworld and the quality was good in comparison to what the LFS was selling. I was more than happy to pay the premium for these plants. Still a distance to go before catching up with tropica and aquerfleur...

Re: New 3 feet ADA mimic tank setup. (Pic heavy) Ok first of all sorry for the late reply and the lack of progress. I've been busy with family matters and the celebration of chinese new year here in Singapore. Went back to Malaysia for a few days and the whole project came to a halt. The tank...

Re: New 3 feet ADA mimic tank setup. (Pic heavy) kH from my understanding only includes the calculation of bicarbonates aka the buffer and not the calcium, is it not? i.e. you can calcium chloride to supplement your micro but it will not affect your kH. If that's the case, do I need to still...

Re: New 3 feet ADA mimic tank setup. (Pic heavy) So tested the water again today and the result remained unchanged. Ph 7.0 Kh 0-1 Gh 3 ish I also tested the tap water and the ph was 7.6! The rest of the parameter was the same Considering there is no active Ingredient In my tank to lower the ph...

Re: New 3 feet ADA mimic tank setup. (Pic heavy) But dragon stone is suppose to be inert isn't it? From aquaessentials website quoted "A soft rock with incredible grooves and crevases created by mother nature. Often longer than they are wide they can be placed easily within a substrate...

Re: New 3 feet ADA mimic tank setup. (Pic heavy) My ceiling is rougly 10-11 feet height. :) Not too tall. Just enough for a typical asian guy to walk through the door lol.

Re: New 3 feet ADA mimic tank setup. (Pic heavy) took me an hour to hand pick those out of a pile of rubble. tested the water after the stone has been in there for 8 hours as I was curious and the result : pH 7.0 kH 0 gH 3 I couldn't believe my own eyes..... guessed i'll need to bedosing...

Re: New 3 feet ADA mimic tank setup. (Pic heavy) ok so I went out and carry a 15kg worth of what I thought is Dragon stone back with me on a 30 minutes journey on the bus! Chucked the whole thing into the tank and will test the water tomorrow to see if it affects the water chemistry. So far...

Re: New 3 feet ADA mimic tank setup. (Pic heavy) hmmm I think looking at the other picture, it is a dragon stone. This piece is only tiny and the rest of the stone that came with this one was actually a lot bigger with similar structure to the one that was posted on the ebay link. Think it's...

Re: New 3 feet ADA mimic tank setup. (Pic heavy) Finally got all the tubing ready and all the parts connected to start cycling the tank. In the mean time, I have staurogyne and crypt wenditii brown and crypt parva growing in full sun emersed on the window sill awaiting harvest in a few weeks...

Re: New 3 feet ADA mimic tank setup. (Pic heavy) I got those time when I was in the UK and brought them with me just for the sake of it and thank god for that. I got them for 2 quid each and here they were asking for 7 quid for a crappy china made one! I've used them previously without any...

Re: New 3 feet ADA mimic tank setup. (Pic heavy) The halide lamp :) First time ever using halide lamp. Can anybody recommend what distance should I suspend the light over the tank? It's only a 150W + 2 x 24W T5HO. Currently it's at 30cm height. I can move the light stand higher if I want to but...

Re: New 3 feet ADA mimic tank setup. (Pic heavy) My final fish tank ADA substrate My little babe Customised stainless steel stand Side view

just looking at the purigen website. It stated that it has an extreme affinity for nitrogenous waste and will absorb all ammonia, nitrite and nitrate.... would this not cause problem in planted tank? You add more nitrate, it absorbed it all and then you have to regenerate it again?

Nope it's not safe. I've wiped my own colony with aquafleur stock and tropica standard stock. I won't put the plant in the shrimp tank unless I tried a tester shrimp with the plant nowadays and that normally happens after 1 month of purchasing the plants unless they came from a shrimp planted tank

Re: New 3 feet ADA mimic tank setup. (Pic heavy) Tank, light stand, ADA substrate, ANS I-Flo lily pipe for 17mm tube arrived last night. The substrate includes ADA Power Sand M (2L) x 2 ADA Aquasoil New Amazonia (9L) x 3 Bacter 100 (100g) x 1 Tourmaline BC (100g) x 1 Clear Super (50g) x 1...

Re: New 3 feet ADA mimic tank setup. (Pic heavy) Well better not count the chick before it hatches. I'm still waiting for the replacement tank. For all I know it could be just as bad. My Stainless steel light stand has been done though. Waiting to be collected in a few days time. Hopefully this...

Re: New 3 feet ADA mimic tank setup. (Pic heavy) Well I kinda accepted the fact that things in singapore would be more expensive than Malaysia. Sometimes I wished that I had a lorry and can go just across the river to bring things in. The tank stand was ok quality but I can't seemed to find the...

Re: New 3 feet ADA mimic tank setup. (Pic heavy) I've spoken to the seller and he has agreed to redo a new tank as a replacement. I don't think I can asked for much more as he has given me a discount and offered it to deliver to mine for free. The tank was only £150 to start off anyway. Anyway...

Re: New 3 feet ADA mimic tank setup. (Pic heavy) I'm also thinking of asking the seller to strip the side panel and reposition it if possible rather than just accepting a discount on more goods. Does anybody has any idea about the strength of the tank following replacing of a panel after the...

Re: New 3 feet ADA mimic tank setup. (Pic heavy) I mentioned that to the seller too. He said it should be ok as they have build curved tank before and it hasn't been a problem. The tank also comes with a 5 year warranty. I'll only fill the water to about 40cm level where the misalignment is at...

Re: New 3 feet ADA mimic tank setup. (Pic heavy) I ventured to most of the LFS in my first week here and trust me when I said I did a lot of walking. My friend was shock when he wanted to bring me around in his car and I said I've been to all those places on foot!

I've just relocated to Singapore and my hand was itching to get back into the planted tank business already. This transition has been hectic and so far nothing but trying to settle down into my previous routine seemed to be met with challenges, one after another. anyway, cut the story short, I...

i don't think it's hard to get them to spawn. I think the hardest part is to get them to feed after spawning. I had ketapang leaves in my tank and nothing but just otos. The water was brown coloured and they spawn. But despite having lots of areas to graze on for microfilm, my otos babies...

CRS and Bee shrimp are similar shrimp and can cross breed. Their requirement are fairly similar as well. Both prefer softer water. the gH value should be around 3-5 with a ph around 6.5. Having said that, the temperature is the most important parameter in shrimp keeping. Some shrimp tolerate...

This is the new up inline diffuser. It's basically using the same technique but slightly different build. Not to mention that it also cost a little more too.

What do you mean taiwan hybrids? Taiwan hybrids normally refer to King Kong, blue boltz or wine red sp. Are those what you meant?

Hmm, the whole point of using and estimative index as it's name suggest it's an estimation. It should require a test kit to check out how much your tank phosphate or nitrate level is. Instead, you gauge the water parameter by observing the plants well being. You have a 76 US gallon tank with...

Oh I see. I ended up assuming it was 150W or 250W. Guessed 150W suspended 2 feet above the tank would do for me then! Cheers. Was just looking up different lighting system and tank unit in singapore and can't believe how much we pay through our nose for the same item here! I feel bad if I put up...

May i ask why are you putting in phosphate remover when you are adding phosphate into the tank via dosing? It doesn't seemed to make much sense. I would agree with the above about getting more flow into the tank or repositioning the output of the filter. You didn't mention about what lighting...

Hmm. I'm assuming you are saying that the light wasn't enough for high light plants in this case then? I was thinking of 2 feet above the tank in a 45cm height tank and was hoping to grow HC, GE or pogostemon helferi in the foreground... Guess I might have to rethink that idea.

What kind of plants can you grow with that level of light? Would it be sufficient to grow HC in a let say 2 feet deep tank?

1. It's personally. You can use either 30 or 45 cm with that. 60cm height on this dimension would be rare and slightly unusual. 2. Silicon. However, if you choose to use acrylic then you have to use acrylic cement. 3. Most tank builder recommending putting the side on the base. It's a base after...

The japonica is from me?

That's one hell of a big tank. You can use either T5 or MH or both I guessed. It realy depends on what type of plants you want to keep in there but 8xT5 should be sufficient for most plants even the slightly difficult one.

I was thinking about going into using one of those combination luminaire with 1 MH light and 2x T5HO light. However, as I'm intending to setup the unit in singapore, heating becomes a problem due to the temperature the unit produces. Can I use a 2 feet unit over a 3 feet tank but raise it up...

I think this concept is quite common in the far east where big companies or wealthy people will hire experienced aquarist to setup display tank for them and expect them to keep up with the maintanence.

Agree with the above. The grading is there to let buyer know what qualirt of shrimp to get. I my self have been dissapointed on a few occasion.

Re: CRS baby! Now with pic of babies & my advance filter! lo 6.5 with amazonia but then the amazonia is nearly 2 years old.

depends on your tap water. In blackpool area, I used straight tap waters with no anti chlorine and I still have hundred of babies. :) Baby shrimp food is not essential as well as they graze on biofilm. The powder just make it a lot more accessible. A few ketapang leaves would have done the same...

Re: CRS baby! Now with pic of babies & my advance filter! lo Hmmm I don't think it's a must but recommended by breeder. My ph is 6.5 and the nitrate, ammonia, nitrite off the tap is 0. Temperature 24 degree. The plant on top takes up some nutrient so I try not to change water at all if possible...

haha £12.95 for A grade? Maybe I should have increase the price I sold mine for. lol.

Try aquatic quotient. It's a Singapore based forum. Arofanatic os another good one but these website are not purely directed at planted tank. Cau-aqua is a nice planted tank website though

I normally just twist the bulb to disconnect it but leave the bulb in there without taking it out. Seemed to work ok with me.

they are pretty much the same. The new super mist diffuser is what was originally within the up inline CO2 diffuser. they just pull it out and put it as a stand alone diffuser.

Re: CRS baby! Now with pic of babies & my advance filter! lo definitely something worth doing. The baby are so small!

Re: CRS baby! Now with pic of babies & my advance filter! lo Tried a baby fry saver kinda cage and annihilated a group of baby shrimp!!! It's a plastic frame with netting clothes stretch over the outside of it to form a cage. Got all the baby shrimp in it and then 10 minutes later return to...

Mine water change every month if I'm not feeding a lot and then maybe 20% every 2 weeks if I'm feeding more. I've got a emersed plant setup that take out a lot of nutrient though. :)

My CRS doesn't even tolerate the pH change when the CO2 comes on let alone the water change. Put one CRS in my high tech planted tank as a trial and dead within a few days whereas the rest of it in the unfertilised, non CO2 poorly lit tank survived and bred. I think unless you are going for a...

I've got an old bottle of 2kg CO2 cylinder that is for sale but I don't know when it was last inspected and certified. Is there anyway to find out? There is a whole lot of number printed on the bottle and the closest that I could get to trying to work out a date is a number set that says 08/01...

Re: Any ideas were i can get a cheap refilable fire extingui I'm selling one on ebay at http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/160639258576? ... 1555.l2649 It's the same cylinder as those used in fire extinguisher but not painted as such. It's an empty bottle though

If you have SAE in your tank, I'm pretty sure that the reason why your moss fail to grow nicely. I have yet to see SAE that doesn't eat moss. They will look as if they are clearing up algae when they are burrowing their snouts into the moss but if you look carefully at the leaves, they are...

Looking at this tank, I'm starting to wonder what you classified as failure in growing moss.... Any picture of what that might mean? I got a feeling it's not something to do with fertilisation but more of the line of destruction... You don't have SAE in your tank do you? Dan

Re: CRS baby! Now with pic of babies & my advance filter! lo They are congregating at the feeding site so frequently now that they look so adorable when they are all together. :)

as informative as ever from clive :)

I'm selling it. lol

From what I know, both are dwarf version of hairgrass with parvula being slightly smaller. There is other variety of dwarf hairgrass out there such as sp. Japan and belem.

Found it in a shrimp seller photobucket profile. His username is Gabeszone and was quite well known a few years back as he was selling good quality high grade CRS all throughout the world from japan by post. He's since then given up on breeding just CRS and went back to keeping shrimp for hobby...

I just use a propagator to grow them to start off with and then leave a small slit in the propagator lid by displacing it sideways and then over the next 2 weeks moving it out. Otherwise, you can just snip off all the leave and plant the stump in a substrate fill with water. The new leaves that...

way too much lighting for the tank size and the plant selection. you will either ended up with a jungle if you are lucky or a tank full of algae if you are unlucky.

The singapore fissidens is in a poorly state. It needs a good light with good CO2 to get it kick start again. I think it's fairly robust but not as sturdy as java moss. I had some in my previous post viewtopic.php?f=23&t=16868 that you can compare to. How much did you pay for that piece? I...

yup all glutaraldehyde.

I added 10 ml of excel daily to my tank and the shrimp was fine with it (my tank was only 90 litre). It also depends on the shrimp you've got. I've only got cherry and amano

Re: CRS baby! Now with pic of babies & my advance filter! lo no misting. :) Just grow them out in the air open to UK atmospheric pressure. It's doable contradictory to what alot of people believe. I did it very gradually and still I was getting burnt leaves on some more delicate plants such as...

that doesn't look like a normal pregnancy.... Has she been mated by a plec? lol

Looking back at when I first started planted tanks, so much has changed. I remember my first 4 feet tank that was only planted with floating riccia and moss to act as a shrimp tank and gradually drifting towards smaller tank due to lack of space and now my nearly finish 2 feet tank has given me...

It's not that hard. It just need time to acclimatise. Once they are acclimatised, you can grow them at room air humidity but just need to make sure that the roots has access to plenty of water.

Re: CRS baby!!! Little shrimpies AS small as a grain of Amazonia Another pic My state of art filter lol Plants going through transition anubias bonsai Another pot of anubias bonsai Dwarf hairgrass sp. Japan aka eleocharis belem Another pot of the hair grass. Anyone interested? A filter...

I had to increase my bpm to get the CO2 drop checker to turn lime green when I was using this diffuser. However, when I change to atomiser, the same amount of bubbles count gas my fish out! So I will second what viktor just said, you probably need to increase your bubble count.

i grow mine in room air. :) I'm not joking.

how big is your tank?

depending on the size of your tank, you could make an atomiser with a small water pump and air sponges. I did that before and it produce such fine bubbles compareable to those of an atomiser if not better. I had to stop using it as everything was covered in the CO2 bubbles that it becomes...

I learnt it the hardway that it's not about how to turn your tank into a whirlpool but more of a simulating how it would be in the wild where the water gently carries the nutrient accross the leave. I had the same approached as you too (directing the outlet over the plants) and ended up sending...

If that's the only way it worked then it must be the problem with a CO2 distribution. What is your flow pattern in your tank? do you have any other mean of increasing flow in the tank? I used to struggle with any carpet plants. I added filters after filter hoping to increase the flow of the tank...

Re: CRS baby!!! counted 30 babies today and there is still 3 pregnant! I think I'm doing something right. lol

For those who ever wondered how ornamental shrimp are bred in large scale, watch the video in the link below and prepared to be awed. Jealousy is not even a word enough to describe my emotion. lol http://en.aquanet.tv/Video/215-the-shri ... w-variants

arghhhh why have you bought it??!! I was going to let mine go at a cheaper price and I lived in blackpool! I even included a heater with it! :P

Re: CRS baby!!! Well I think they would stay well out of the filter as the newly hatch shrimplings looks much bigger than the pore of the fine pore sponge that I have on my inlet.

I had CRS in tank without substrate before but it was quite heavily planted. I think it can do without substrate but you can to fill it up with plants to make the shrimp feel secure.

Re: CRS baby!!! I'm using modified tetra tex 1200 with a sponge block at the intake pipe and that seemed to work alright. However, saying that I haven't clean the filter for 6 month! So I won't know if there is any baby shrimp in the filter itself. lol