Here's my Water Garden !

nurburgring

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Hi Guys,

Here's my Tank. Its a great compliment to my room decor. I'm going for the japanese garden look, ala Amano style. I hope you like it.

So far, the tank is 11 days old. The only stock in there is a baby SAE and a baby oto.

The hairgrass was a real pain to separate. It came in a huge ball. And then planting it was another story. Same with the glosso. Drove me crazy.

The plants in there are hairgrass, riccia, glosso and some sort of rotalia, together with a taiwan moss wall.

So here goes,
Day 11.
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The cost involved ? ($USD)
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1) 1.5 feet tank with folded front/side panels - $18
2) Jebo hang on back filter - $6
3) 2L CO2 tank plus regulator, bubble counter and ceramic diffuser - $40
4) 2 x 24w compact fl by Jebo - $60
5) Fine Black Gravel 10kg - $10
6) Ocean Free 1L base fertilizer - $10
7) Taiwan Moss Wall - $8 in total
8) Rotalia - $0.70 one basket
9) Hairgrass - $3 for 1 fistfull
10) Glosso - $3 for 1 fistful
11) 0.5w hang on back computer fan - $6
12) SAE and Oto - $1 each
13) Riccia pretied to driftwood - $7
14) Digital Thermometer - $4
15) Sera CO2 indicator - $10

Total Damage : $188

I will update this thread weekly. So far the plants are growing well, with some hairalgae.
 
VERY nice tank!
 
Extremely nice looking tank!
 
UPDATES!

I just added somemore rotalias behind the driftwood. I felt the previous setup was a bit imbalanced.

I'm also added more fishes, 10 to be exact. 10 Mosquito Rasboras!
Here are the pictures.

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More algae is growing... argh.

I've also purchase a nice twig looking driftwood which I would try to fit in next week after soaking and tying some moss on it. It was very pricey... claimed to be imported from the amazon.
 
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I am scared of the hang on back filter u have for this awesome looking tank. I was just wondering about it. $6 :confused:

The taiwanese HOB is pretty decent so far. Totally silent, good flow, with quite a large filter volume which I fill with ceremic rings and wool. The good thing is , its is made out of dark acrylic, so u can hardly see it.
 
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