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Posted by: LASERGUY Mon, 22 Mar 2004 12:32 am

Hi, this is one of my 3ft planted tank.

Posted by: LASERGUY Mon, 22 Mar 2004 12:40 am

My 2 1/2 ft planted tank.

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Posted by: max Mon, 22 Mar 2004 9:37 am

Awesome sight, I am sure if fish can sing, they will be singing to the tune Green Green Grass of Home.

Posted by: HappyBuddha Mon, 22 Mar 2004 10:21 am

Planted tank is so cool, but I can't seem to get down to set one up. Someday someday...

Posted by: mountain Mon, 22 Mar 2004 11:01 am

HB, u can buy one off the shelve.. ready planted with guppies somemore..
@Sam Yik..

Posted by: LASERGUY Tue, 03 Aug 2004 12:23 am

This is my latest 3 ft planted tank (converted from my prize from QH competition.)
About 2 weeks old, waiting for the plant to start growing.....

Posted by: RBT Tue, 03 Aug 2004 12:47 am

Hi Bro LASERGUY,
Just a question.Do you use surface skimmer?

Cheers

Posted by: HappyBuddha Tue, 03 Aug 2004 6:43 am

Wow, this one is very very nice!

It's so simple, clean and modern.

Damn zen ah!

Posted by: mountain Tue, 03 Aug 2004 8:05 am

nope ..i dun really like it .. its quite ...... empty ...
maybe its because its not fully grown yet .. can we grow wheat grass in it?? but i like the stones layout .. u are so artistic!!

Posted by: HappyBuddha Tue, 03 Aug 2004 10:48 am

Empty empty very cool ah.



Or else like above also not bad. Okay... it's amazing!

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Posted by: LASERGUY Tue, 03 Aug 2004 12:20 pm

No, normally I use oil/protein remover by AZOO to breakdown the oily-looking stuff on the surface....however, yet to apply on this tank as it is still in the initial stage.
Any particular reason for asking this question ?

Posted by: LASERGUY Tue, 03 Aug 2004 12:25 pm

These tanks are nice, however did u notice that there isn't any small tropical fish around. My personal preference will be seeing schools of small tropical fishes moving around the tank together in unison...

Posted by: mountain Tue, 03 Aug 2004 1:04 pm

guess one of the smoothing thing is to see the generated oxygen bubbles slowing rising in unison .. but i realise they are always small ... is it any possible to create BIG bubbles?? tat would be fun ..

Posted by: RBT Wed, 04 Aug 2004 12:45 am

Yup,was told that plants produce oil(some sort).That we need surface skimmers to remove it.

Since you have used AZOO oil/protein remover I've got a couple of questions for you.

1.How long have you been using these products?
2.And if you would use these products in the long run?(would there be foreseeable problems?i.e using chemical to break down oil/protein.)

Thanks n Cheers

Posted by: LASERGUY Wed, 04 Aug 2004 12:25 pm

To answer your questions:
1. A couple of years.
2. So far no problem but bear in mind that only use it when necessary and not in periodical sense.

The reason why these oily substances gathered on the surface is because for planted tank, we will like to minimise surface movement to prevent unnecessary loss of CO2 which resulted in the above. The function of surface skimmer mainly provide a way to collect these oily substances into the filter. Another cheap way of getting rid of these is placed an oil absorbing paper on the surface for a while, then disposed it after that, this will also reduce some of these oily stuff.

Posted by: RBT Wed, 04 Aug 2004 1:10 pm

Thanks for the reply.
Would be OK to use the protein skimmer then.?
Cheers.

Posted by: LASERGUY Wed, 04 Aug 2004 6:24 pm

Are we tuned in the same frequency ?
Not being longwinded, to clarify again, surface skimmer used in planted tank and protein skimmer used in marine tank are different thing altogether.
Surface skimmer provides an inlet for the filter at the surface, so that those oily substance can be filtered away.
For protein skimmer used in marine tank, uses air bubbles to propell salt water up to a chamber where excessive protein will be collected.

Posted by: RBT Wed, 04 Aug 2004 8:06 pm

Hi bro LASERGUY,
your right,i drifted off for a moment,i meant surface skimmer.
sorry to cause any inconveniences.
cheers
rgds,rbt

Posted by: HappyBuddha Wed, 04 Aug 2004 9:41 pm

If I'm not wrong, planted tank's choice of filtration is the canister system, and the surface skimmer is connected to its inlet. I want to know, out of curiosity, what's inside the canister that stores the sucked in oil inside the canister?

Posted by: LASERGUY Thu, 05 Aug 2004 8:54 am

They will be break down by bacteria just like normal waste....

Posted by: LASERGUY Mon, 11 Oct 2004 12:37 am

Just did a minor rescape of my 3ft tank over the weekend, waiting for the plants to grow in....

Posted by: Allan Mon, 11 Oct 2004 5:24 pm

Wow.



The setup was like that? The neon tetra are much bigger now.

Posted by: Seacucumber Mon, 11 Oct 2004 6:24 pm

wah....ATOS....
now look like the soccer field from my secondary school......
and those tetras look like those flies and grasshoppers....heehee....
get back to goldfish lah u!
hehehehehe

Posted by: mrchoco Tue, 12 Oct 2004 12:16 am

put one goldfish into the tank all go hay wire
terta become food.
all plants get uprooted

Posted by: HappyBuddha Tue, 12 Oct 2004 8:21 am

I wonder if we can have a planted goldfish tank where a standard tank is partitioned into two seperate tank in the middle. The rear half is the planted section while the front half is for goldfish. Should be quite song to enjoy both hobby at the same time.

Posted by: LASERGUY Tue, 12 Oct 2004 8:58 am

They are not Neon tetra but Green Tetra which are more rare and difficult to keep....

Posted by: goldrush Tue, 12 Oct 2004 9:10 am

Simply,Super

Judging from before and after picture,I just can summarise in one thought:

From Jalan Besar(statium) to Theatre of Dreams(Man Utd).

Keep it up Bro

Regards
goldrush

Posted by: CP Tue, 12 Oct 2004 10:33 am

Posted by: peter porker Sun, 28 Nov 2004 5:29 pm

Not sure if anyone can remember the amazon tank in Aquamart when they were still at their old premises. With all due respect to Laserguy, THAT tank was awesome!

Posted by: LASERGUY Sun, 28 Nov 2004 11:44 pm

Anybody visited Sam's aquarium in Pet Safari at East-Point, their main 12 footer...I can spend 30 minutes in front of the tank admiring and drooling...

Posted by: mountain Fri, 03 Dec 2004 8:45 am

everyday walk pass ... smelly .. all the sai smell .. watch where u walk .. anytime can step onto sai .

Posted by: LASERGUY Tue, 04 Jan 2005 12:41 pm

New update on my 3ft tank....

Posted by: mountain Tue, 04 Jan 2005 12:45 pm

cool man ..


p/s : Add some blue neon fish for your planted tank FOC

Posted by: LASERGUY Tue, 04 Jan 2005 12:49 pm

Already have ~50 of them, hiding underneath the plant....

Posted by: mountain Tue, 04 Jan 2005 1:14 pm

but do you have to feed them like goldfish ?

i may try one out but worry about the logistic nightmare as compared to a baretank goldfish..

Posted by: LASERGUY Sun, 11 Sep 2005 11:38 pm

Updated.

http://www.rafflesgold.com/forums/images/30000/post-18-1126453133.jpg

Posted by: mountain Mon, 12 Sep 2005 8:26 am

very ... yellow feeling..

Posted by: LASERGUY Tue, 13 Sep 2005 6:07 pm

May be looks yellowish because all the green E tenelus at the tank bottom turned reddish/orangish due to high Fe nutrient...

Posted by: CP Tue, 13 Sep 2005 11:02 pm

Kekekekeke....one thing good about planted tanks,its easier to photograph and post.

Posted by: LASERGUY Wed, 15 Feb 2006 3:21 pm

Did a re-scape on one of my 3 ft tank......

Posted by: The Matrix Wed, 15 Feb 2006 6:38 pm

Tranquility !

U really Amano's fan ! Would it help if the driftwood is replaced by rocks ?

Posted by: LASERGUY Thu, 16 Feb 2006 12:16 am

Driftwood + moss + shrimps combination is the IN-Thing in planted tank now......

Posted by: white horse T1 Thu, 16 Feb 2006 8:22 am

out of curoisty, what is the freq of wc in landscape tank or it is just topping up?

Posted by: LASERGUY Thu, 16 Feb 2006 12:06 pm

Daily top-up required as cooling fan increases water evaporation rate (1 inch per day.)
Water change of 10~20% weekly or every fortnightly.....

Posted by: LASERGUY Thu, 14 Feb 2013 6:31 pm

Re-scaped my 3ft tank yet again before CNY 2013.
Only low maintenance plants, too busy and lazy.

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