Plant Tank

I need this stuff to grow. and grow FAST!!!

Details:
The vase is a 9L cylinder vase.
Equipment is a 11W Compact florescent. and a 25W heater set at 26 degrees celcious
I have ADA soil, a bit of laterlite, (5cm deep at back 3 at front) 2x Ferro Tablets in the soil (somewhere)
In the water i have some Aquamaster Plant food
Plants: Val grass, separated and individual planted
Java Moss floating on the surface.

Now grow little ones! Be strong!

Note: Its muggy now as its only been 30mins but i expect it to clear up by the morning

Question: Do i need filtration?

Shopping

Today i've bought heaps!

• 1x Val Grass
• 2x Hair Grass
• 3x Fluffy Stuff
• 1x java moss
• 1x Christmas moss

I'm hoping to culture the mosses first before planting out.

Steph and I enjoyed a good hour at SS in Maroubra, chatting with Michelle and a very excited young sales man and Michelle's parents.

I nearly fainted when they gave me a quote for the CO2 gas canister/difffuser and regualator! that alone was almost $200! (i think ill wait til Hong Kong)

We got swish a new tank (see prev blog) and some ADA soil, nice red africana stuff. That doesn't need washing!!! pretty good huh?

Swish is downsizing...

Yup he's too little for that big rattle box so he's moved into a semi!

Good news is that the other side is vacant!!

Should put up a for lease sign here! i'm sure there some desperate tenant out there looking for a home...

Fishtank Lighting

http://www.fitchfamily.com/lighting.html

 

is a great way of calculating how much wattage you need for your plant orientated tank

 

So on the shopping list I need a 50w light for the 23L nano tank.

and 100W light if I want to change the AR620 into a planted tank.

 

 

Slippery Suckers

Is closed on Wednesdays!!! ARGH! Never knew!

I skipped out of work early so I could sneak in and get a fish fix.

Oh well

On another note, In the supermarket they were selling pool filters quite cheaply and I wondered if It would pick up some of the floaties I have in the big tank. Oh my did it pick up heaps!  Kinda embarrassing…

And the tank got another waterchange to boot.  :)

Gravel

I have decided I need to buy some red gravel, small size.

Glosso Talk

This is an Australian Native! Wow! And you can find it in Cradle Mountian growing in shallow streams... Ahh the feeling of home!

But unlike Tassie grown its quite fussy - it wants the best of everything! But then again if you've grown up with the best it hard to go backward. *wink*

Google it and its notoriously everywhere. Tropica, my favourite plant site has something on it
The Krib - write essays on it. Even Tassie has a fax sheet on it !

Grown well it looks like a field of clover. Badly, and its disgusting.

I will be adding some of this to the Nano Tank

But if you want to know what it looks like admire other growers through the power of Google

Checklist for NanoTank

• Soil
• Gravel
• Ferro Tablets
• Light
• Rocks or broken slate
• Filter System
• CO2 System
• Active Carbon
• Heater
• Plants
•         Ricca/Glosso
• Volume of Tank

The light aint right...

I had purchased ages ago a 11W compact flourscent hood with an 11W floursent globe.

Glosso in a 20L tank needs about 30W of light.  So ill need to find another compact light system.

ARGH!

Update

• Babies are big and ready to swim out of the tank
• Two have been fostered to Tina who has an AR510 tank with 2 small angels, tetras, platys, loaches and a tiny SAE.
  
• Goldfish have passed way, they never quite got over the big water drought. RIP... T_T
• Brine Shrimp System has been packed away. Hopefully ill never have to put that out again.
• Nigel is going to give me a small corner tank! Im going to put the nano tank project into action!
  
• Next Project in winter ill make up another outdoor tank, with a bigger pot.
• The angelfish babies are big enough to give away or integrate. I now have the 90L tank back. What to do.... Marine? Hardwater? Planted? Suggestions?