Aquatic / aquascape

Over the years, we have customers asking for an aquascape starter kit. It is not that we are not interested in making a starter kit. In fact we also find that there’s a need for a starter kit as starting an aquascape aquarium is very challenging especially for beginners. But we just see that there’s too many starter kits out there that are made to be as cheap as possible. With equipment that doesn’t really work. Chances are anyone that bought one of those starter kits would just quit out of frustration.

But now finally we decided to take the first step.

We have had this tank for my then a year. We set it up to test the NemoLight S72 88 Pets Mart Edition and it is long for a major maintenance and trimming. Before we do that we decided to take a feature video of it. By the time this video is out the tank should have gone thru it's major maintenance and trimming process. Hopefully it will turns out better then ever. 

We will post a follow up picture of it but for now, enjoy the 90P aquascape display tank tittle Lost.

We have collaborated with Seachem Malaysia to bring you an in-depth video of creating a nano aquascape aquarium. 

The Scaping

In this video we will be using Seachem Flourite as our substrate. 7kg of Flourite will occupy a 7000cm³ area. Which means you'll just need to multiply the length, width and the thickness of the substrate you prefer and divide it by 7000 and multiply the result with 7 to determine the kg of Flourite you'll need. Unlike soil type substrate, Flourite doesn't come with nutrients but instead it absorbs and stores nutrients. Planting with Flourite is rather easy as it is heavy allowing it to hold the plants easier. But it needs to be clean throughout before using as it's rather dirty out of the bag. In the past we used Flourite as a substrate before. We find it easy to use and maintain. Another advantage of using Flourite as it can be clean and reuse during respace. Although some of the Flourite will be lost during cleaning, especially the sand version. The downside is ...

Ideally phosphorus should be kept in the range of 0.1 to 1mg/L. It should never be allowed to fall below 0.1mg/L but it is acceptable to be more than 1mg/L as long as the plants are healthy and no algae can be seen. To prevent algae from growing in a high phosphorus concentrated water, nitrogen needs to be in the correct ratio. For instance, if your phosphorus has accumulated to 1.5mg/L, your nitrogen should be somewhere around 15 to 30mg/L. This will allow the plants to grow fast enough to combat the algae. As long as you have proper lighting and the right CO2 concentration, your plants should be able to win the race against algae. 

New video on our Youtube Channel. It's been awhile. In this video we will go into details on what is require to have a healthy planted tank. From equipment to the details of nutrients dosing. Hope this will help to give new comer to this beautiful hobby a proper good start.