Ciaossu's 1ft cube tank journal

Ciao everyone,

i'll will be setting up 2 X cube tank and the theme will be south american biotope for one and the other will be mostly moss tank. please guide me along, your guidance will be greatly appreciated

Day 1.

2 X 1ft cube tank i bought from a nice bro here


substrate i bought from colourful (recommended by the uncle) looks like the poh chun pill (the one meant for diarrhea) price was reasonable so decided to give it a try.


LED clip light (2 switched 1 is for the white light the other is for the blue light




blue LED light

continue Day 1.

substrate




a mixture of sand and gex soil(brought it over from the old tank)

will continue the journal once i've got the driftwood i wanted. thanks for reading i was thinking whether the other tank should i put sand or just leave it? hmm, any suggestion?

[Young Man]

hmm looks interesting (: will be looking foward to your updates of the progress of the tanks (: as for the other tank.. since it is for moss i guess whether you put sand or not does not really matter? just my thoughts

Gd idea bro... One stone kill 2 bird...

Maybe u can try put soil... Who knows if hand itchy will add some rooted plant??? Play safe better than sorry...

If you are going for Moss tank, are you going to add CRS or Sakuras in !
And add a cooling fan? Becauase the GEX soil (poi chai in pills soil) looks like the plant (Green packet?) which can be used for CRS/Sakura.

Sorry if i am trying to poison you to spend more.

Are you going to use hang on filters?

Update soon, your journal looks interesting.

nice setup bro. awaiting the progress. one question, the led light strong enough? im sourcing for one also but scare my moss cannot tahan

Originally Posted by benjidog

If you are going for Moss tank, are you going to add CRS or Sakuras in !
And add a cooling fan? Becauase the GEX soil (poi chai in pills soil) looks like the plant (Green packet?) which can be used for CRS/Sakura.

Sorry if i am trying to poison you to spend more.

Are you going to use hang on filters?

Update soon, your journal looks interesting.

Yea, i will be adding a fan, hmm i'm not using GEX soil, it's a kind of soil recommended by colourful's uncle and he himself is also using it so decided to give it a try. hmm, after seeing the fire red shrimp at colourful really tempted to try again. erm, 1 tank will be HOF the other will be internal filter.

Originally Posted by Bettas4life

nice setup bro. awaiting the progress. one question, the led light strong enough? im sourcing for one also but scare my moss cannot tahan

hmm, shouldn't be a problem ba.

as promised.

Day 2. (cycling starts)

driftwoods and apisto cave bought from midori.


rocks also from midori


plants from polyart

setup completed, i will cycle the tank for 1 week as i'm using water from my other 2 ft tank and age water to cycle and also old media and sand. water is abit cloudy though. here goes:

my south american biotope setup, fauna will be my pair of apisto diplotaenia only.




my low tech planted tank (for this tank it's half completed only)


that's all for today, thanks for viewing
sorry for the poor taken pictures and the reflection