ermano's ADA mini S planted build

Those shrimp should look great in the tank and not get lost because of the tank size.

 

Man, my tang would go nuts in their!!! lol Give him 5 mins and you would have to replant again. Looks VERY appatizing to him

 

There's something very zen about that tank. Thanks for the pics, I enjoyed them a lot!

 

Thanks everyone for the comments...greatly appreciated!!

I was shooting for that "zen" look (Iwagumi)...once I get the blyxa in there, I feel like it will look more calming, not that it doesn't right now.

 

Can't wait to see the blyxa in there. The HC and blyxa should play off each other perfectly.



How's the filter doing? Looks real proportional on the tank.

 

It's doing quite alright...once the cycle is complete I'm going to do away with the foam pads in there and go strictly with ceramic discs.

 

Very cool! That looks awesome.

 

You might want to use just the pads as water polishers only if the tank is planted heavily enough. The plants should take up most if not all of your nitrate and phosphate if the shrimps are the only animals.

Thanks for the info on the filter.

 

Here are some pics with the blyxa in. I have been meaning to upload them but the pics were taken on saturday.

A little update. I started dosing flourish and flourish excel. I replenish my jello CO2 every 2 weeks...although in theory it's supposed to last for a few months. I notice that the bubble count goes significantly down. So I may just switch to sugar and water and run two 2liter bottles and a diffuser. Ammonia is around 6ppm...which was at 8ppm to begin with. So it's working and doing it's thing. It's just the ammazonia leaches so much ammonia it's ridiculous.

 

wow, its really taken shape now Ermano

looks well cool

Steve