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  1. Friday, July 20, 2012 Just thought I would update this as I have not done so in a long time. Picture as of today. Fauna: 2 Black Marble Angle Fish 1 Otocinclus 5 Amano Shrimp ?? Red Cherry Shrimp Flora: Front: Hemianthus Callitrichoides 'Cuba' (Dwarf Baby Tears) Middle: Pogostemon Helferi (Downoi) Back: Eleocharis Acicularis (Dwarf Hair Grass) Equipment: Tank: ADA Cube Garden 45-P 45X27X30 Light: Sunblaster 24W T5HO CO2: None Filter: Eheim 2217 So other than a Amano Shrimp jumper two months ago, things have been good. Light period has been cut down to about 4 hours a day and water changes occur once every 1.5 months. No CO2 injections and only weekly dose of Excel. So I have been round and about trying to collect my items for my second planted tank. I stumbled across some videos regarding Takashi Amano and just fell in love with his tanks and decided to try and start my own. Please keep in mind that this will be my first Iwagumi attempt. Any suggestions and comments will be greatly appreciated! Searching for ADA products in Canada is not easy but luckily there is a distributor here. So I acquired a ADA Cube Garden 45x27x30 and I am stunned at the craftsmanship of the overall tank. Unfortunately, the place where I brought my stuff did not carry any Garden Mats for the aquarium so I was forced to DIY it. So I did some research and tried to find some closed-cell foam or neoprene and was unsuccessful. Then I read on a forum about some people using yoga mats for their ADA tanks. So I decided the yoga mats were my next best option and now I have a cut up yoga mat. The substrate I used is ADA Powersand Special S and ADA Amaziona (the amazonia smells nice....) It took about another week or so to find and gather some stones which I felt will go well in the tank, here they are! And finally, here is what the tank currently looks like. As of now, I am waiting for my supplier to get back to me on the plant list I had put in a week ago. The list consists of: Hemianthus Callitrichoides Eleocharis Acicularis Pogostemon Helferi I plan to have HC carpet, hopefully, the entire aquarium. As for the Pogo Helferi, I was thinking of planting it close to and surrounding the stones. As for the Dwarf Hair Grass, I was thinking of planting it in the back right hand corner. The lights I will be using are 2 CFL rated at 6500K @ 13W and 800 lumes each. Any suggestions on the lighting? Will this be sufficient for these plants? Also, accompanying this will be DIY CO2. As for the filter, I am quite lost as of now. I somewhat narrowed it down to 3 filters: Zoo Med 501 Turtle Canister Filter http://www.amazon.ca...m=ACESBCCRDDFV4 Ehiem Filter 2213 http://www.amazon.ca...TF8&me=&seller= RENA Filstar XP1 Canister Filter http://www.amazon.ca...pd_rhf_se_p_t_1 Anybody have any experiences with these filters and if so, do you think it will overpower a 10 gallon tank? Anways, I would like to tank you for reading my thread and I hope to gain some valuable constructive criticism on my setup. Any comments and/or suggestions are welcomed. Thank you very much! Sunday, January 22, 2012 Just wanted to do an update. After readjusting some of the rocks and slopes, this is what the hardscape currently looks like: Please feel free to criticize and give me some feedback! I finally finalized my order with Canadian Aquatics and am waiting for my package to arrive with the plants. Therefore, this may be the last chance for you guys to give me feedback before I dive into planting and flooding this baby up Also, did anybody RSVP for the ADA Workshop tomorrow at Pisces? Give me a shout if you have! Oh I am excited for tomorrow. hehe Tuesday, January 24th, 2012 So I finally got my package in the mail today. Thank you Canadian Aquatics. Amazing people and the best customer service ever. (Shipped out yesterday and arrived today) Anyways so I spent a large park of the afternoon planting my HC, helferi, and DHG Heres a shot before the fill up. Filling up. And finally filled up. (Topped it off a bit more after I took this shot) You may ask where is my filter and heater and I have to say I am embarrassed at them so I took the shot before I put those items in. Currently using a HOB and I have to shop around for a canister ASAP! Thanks for reading Just for kicks.... my cat was watching Thursday, February 2, 2012 Just wanted to do a quick update today. Just took this picture and it seems I may need to trim soon. Any suggestions on keeping the HC lower and more dense? Thanks! P.S. ignore the heater and filter please haha. Waiting for my Lily Pipes and gotta find a solution to hide the heater.... :S Thursday, February 23, 2012 Took this shot a few days ago. You can't really tell from the photo but my HC is not as green as I want it to be. There are some leaves that are starting to turn brown. I was wondering if anyone can shed some light on this for me. I am currently using a 24W 6400K T5HO on this. Fertilizes NPK and micro minerals. Lights were on for 6 hours but have been reduced to 4 hours because of the browning (I thought maybe they were getting too much light so I reduced them about a week ago) Thanks! Tuesday March 06, 2012 Thanks for all your suggestions. So I went out and purchased some Excel and oh my, what a turn around. Here is a shot of the HC at its most brown point: February 26, 2012 and here it is today: March 6, 2012 (44 days after planting) And some Amano Shrimp
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  3. Day 85 Fauna: 16 Harlequin rasbora ?? Yellow Shrimp Flora: Utricularia Graminifolia Equipment: Tank: ADA Cube Garden 60-P 60X30X36 Light: Finnex Ray 2 DS Dual 7000K 24" CO2: None Filter: Eheim 2217 Keeping it real simple this time around. Planted on April 21st, 2013, this is my single planted species, UG, Utricularia Graminifolia, 60-P tank. Photo period is 4 hours and 30 minutes a day with no CO2 injection or fertilizers. Currently only 16 Harlequin rasboras swimming around but I want a school of pgymy cories in the near future. Day 1 (April 21, 2013) Please excuse my bad shots.....really bad shots... Day 33 (May 23, 2013) I am always looking for feedback and any constructive criticisms. Thanks for looking!
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