Low-Tech 10g Planted Build

[Aquarium1]

Hey, did you order that from Sweet Aquatics? Or mg or sm? Those plants are very healthy looking, +1 to kristin lol

Sweet Aquatics. However, I plan on ordering some shrimps (most likely RCS) and snails from mg (nerite snails mostly for the other 10g and the 55g) and the CPDs from SM.

 

[Aquarium1]

ph is around 7.4 or so and nitrates are around 10. I'll probably do another pwc this week, and maybe, hopefully, I'll be able to buy some CPDs in the next 2 weeks. RCS and snails might have to wait til my birthday

 

[mommytron]

wow. looks freakin awesome!!! i especial love the Ludwigia Repens and the Marselea Quad. tank is looking amazing. i can't wait for the tree either! even if you don't put moss on it it still looks awesome. the CPDs will look so good in that tank.

 

[Aquarium1]

Thanks . I was very surprised how good the aquascaping turned out, although it doesn't make me any less jealous of your's and JOM's tanks haha.

 

[mommytron]

to be honest i'm jealous of yours!!! i love the variety of plants you have. we will be upgrading the lighting on our 20 at some point so hopefully i will be able to get a bit more variety as well. man i really love that dark red one in the back.

 

[Aquarium1]

Haha thanks. Hopefully it will start to grow towards the light, it looks all crazy now. I'm going to be photo-acclimating them for the next few days. I'm starting out with 4 hrs of light today, and I'll add about 15 min each day until I get around 8 hours per day or so. I'm hoping that with mostly slow growing plants, that I won't have to fertilize or CO2, but eventually there might come a time when I have to. CO2 doesn't seem so bad, I could probably DIY it, but ferts are what confuse me. If I dosed straight to the tank I'd need like 1/32 of a teaspoon, and I don't know where to get that lol. I might be able to mix it up in my prime bottle once its empty but I never was very good with mixture concentrations lol.

 

[Crepe]

The marsilea is emersed. Don't throw them out when the leaves start dying, it will convert. Just fyi :3.

To dose tiny amounts of ferts say 1/32 of a tsp. You get 1/4 tsp ( easy to find at a grocery store) and dissolve it in say 8 ounces of water. Every ounce will dose 1/32 of a tsp.

 

[Aquarium1]

ok, so its kind of like crypt melt?

 

[Aquarium1]

well I cut a few of the runners off and spread them around (on the same side) to get a head start on the "carpet".

 

[Aquarium1]

Ok so I'm not sure about this, that's why I'm asking. Would it be too much to keep 7 Espei Rasboras and 7 Von Rio Tetras. I checked aqadvisor, and it said it would be ok, but that's why I wanted to check here. I'm just trying to check out my options lol. I'm probably still going to be getting CPDs just curious.

 

[Aquarium1]

Ok so I'm not sure about this, that's why I'm asking. Would it be too much to keep 7 Espei Rasboras and 7 Von Rio Tetras. I checked aqadvisor, and it said it would be ok, but that's why I wanted to check here. I'm just trying to check out my options lol. I'm probably still going to be getting CPDs just curious.

^^^

Oh, also, just wanted to say that I think I've actually seen some growth on some of the backgrounds plants, which to me, is really exciting lol.

 

[krap101]

Only slightly better than watching trees grow or rocks disintegrate jkjk

Watching those time lapse videos makes it fun though

 

[Aquarium1]

wish I had a camera good enough for that lol.

 

[krap101]

I think all you need is like a video camera and speed it up like 60x

Webcam might work

 

[Aquarium1]

I have neither of those lol.

 

[krap101]

Well, if you set up a tripod (I knnoowww you have a camera) and take a picture a few times a day, then you can set up like a flash slideshow at lke 20fps (but it'll take a bunch of pictures...)

Oh, you might not have a tripod (I still need to get one...)

 

[Aquarium1]

Well I do have a crappy tripod but I don't have a camera, its my sister's and I have to "ask permission" lol.

 

[krap101]

In my family, we have a bartering system. I'm more technologically adept than my siblings, so if they take my stuff, I threaten to kick them off the network. lol...

Tell her it's for a school project The problem is, these time lapse things would take up a ton of space, and also make it so you can't use the camera for like 6 months But you'll be my hero, and that's all that matters right?

 

[Aquarium1]

6 months?!?!? I was thinking maybe 1... Lol.

 

[krap101]

Oh, I'm not all the way here right now. For some reason I was thinking national geographic and watching trees grow (which is much slower). If you take pictures, and run the video at normal speed, taking 1 picture a day will last around 1 second of video (28.7 or so fps) 30 pictures a day will give you around 30 seconds of video.

Either way, do you really think your sister will let you use her camera for a month? I'm still not sure how they get the battery to last that long, but I guess you wouldn't notice if they stopped the feed and changed the battery since it's moving so quickly.

I was thinking of this video by the way
YouTube - Albizia Julibrissin (mimosa) time lapse 01

Approximately 2140 frames

I guess this would be more realistic

YouTube - Mimosa pudica (touch sensitive plant) Time Lapsed, Touched, and Heated in HD

This one was cool too

YouTube - Time-lapse mimosa

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftnFz75iQWI