My First Planted Tank, "A Amazon Feel" By Singaporeanson
 

Posted on behalf of Singaporeanson(he still cannot post a thread, no activition code)

with my Inspiration and Guidance, WAHAHAHAH

my good friend eagerly set up his first Planted Tank.

The emptiness or the amazon? Nothing to see bro.

so sorry. was editing the post.

Comments are welcome.

Setup:
1. 1.5 ft tank in airconditioned office. Tank was purchased from a bro here.
2. Plants: windelov fern, java fern, medium size anubias, and some unknown moss.
3. currently just got the fishes. 10 cardinal, 10 black tetras, 3 albino cories and 10 serpae tetras
4. had cycled the tank with some guppy culls with 3 of my self bred g2 male wild guppies. (had gotten g1 from the drain).

more pictures!

Think it's a bit over crowded. What filtration you using?

have only a sponge filter set up.
trying to go as natural as possible.

Having a sponge filter will not make it even more natural. You need a better filter for the amount of livestock in there. Yes it is also overstocked for a 1.5

Pls use proper filtration for your tank. The sponge bubble filter looks abit awful when in "planted" tank. Hope no offence taken, just my opinion

Bro, its really too over-populated.. Even if you use a 3L media canister (e.g 2213), you will need to sponges every month. 30 tetras and 3 cories will cause you super high nitrate in the long run. Moreover, you have added too many livestocks at a time. You only cycled with 3 guppies, and you added 33 new fishes. Your filter may not take the bioload, ammonia will shoot up high within 1-2 days, there may not be enough BB to break down your ammonia. Cories will also stir the sand to cause more ammonia spike. Your sponge filter will be overloaded in less than 1 wk.

Just my 2 cents.

You are likely to experience some dead fishes soon. Way too much bioload for a sponge filter, unless u regularly do water change

If the tank is a little bigger, will looks nice and will not looks overcrowded. I agreed with the other bros here, install a proper filtration unit. No offense, just a two cent opinion.

thanks all for the reply. will do up a proper filtration!

An additional tips for you, keep your sponge filter in the tank while you run your new filter (either hang on or cannister). Running the two filters concurrently can help to prevent the "new tank syndrome" and allows your tank to be in the "cycled mode". You can remove the sponge filter once your new filter is cycled (preferably after 1.5 months, just to be safe)

Gd luck!

Bro, IMHO, you might want to remove/shift some of the plants, as it covered the lighting of the whole tank and perhaps using OHF as one solution for your filtration system.
As mentioned by the bro here, your tank is over-populated. You will see some dead fishes in a short period.

The tank is small and the plant are big. The proportion is somewhere incorrect.

Nice tank la

Sometime less is more. Since your tank is small, just keep smaller fishes, lesser species and you will be surprise that it actually looks better.

Very nice concept. Very unique wood that very much provides the focal point by itself already. Maybe using frogbit as floating plant and narrow java fern tie to the wood or planting some small crypts may improve the outlook.
(if you need frogbits, can collect from me at Lavander FOC)

A tank of this size, using a hang on filter should be sufficient.

Keep us updated on the developments. Thanks.