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A Low-Maint Tank

Date: Thu, 27 Apr 1995
From: Hardjono Harjadi <Hardjono.Harjadi-at-Eng.Sun.COM>

Objective:

To set up affordable and low maintenance planted tank. With this in mind, I made the following choices:

1. Use UGF with the smallest powerhead I can find:
   • to provide nutrient circulation around the roots
   • to minimize the turbulance
   • less expensive and more readily available than heating cables.
2. Use DIY Yeast reactor: this is working great so far (3 months so far).

General:

• 20 Gal tank (24Lx13Wx16H in inches)
• pH 6.8, KH 2 dH, GH 6 dH
• 50W + 75W Ebo Jager heater that keeps the temperature around 76 F. My Radio Shack digital thermometer records 75.6 low and 76.7 high.
• UGF driven by Aquaclear 201 powerhead
• Whisper WDF 3000 power filter
• 3x15 watts fluorescent lights (2 Vitalites, 1 Triton)
• DIY Yeast CO2 injection fed into the venturi plug on the powerhead

Substrate:

mesh#0 (2-3) mm gravel bed, 3 inches thick with DuplaRit balls

Fertilizer:

• Kent FW Plant Supplement (one cap per week)
• Kent Trace Element (one cap per week)

Fish:

• 5 various corydoras, including
  Corydora punctuatus (?) (I named him ``Bandit'')
  Corydora aneus
  Corydora juhlii
  
• 5 harlequin rasboras
• 2 otocinclus
• 1 Siamese Algae Eater

Plants:

• Doing great:
  • Anubias barteri
  • Anubias nana
  • Bacopa caroliniana
  • Cardamine lyrata
  • Ceratopteris cornuta (Water sprite - broad leaf )
  • Ceratopteris thalictroides (Water sprite - narrow leaf )
  • Hygrophila difformis (Water wisteria )
  • Ludwigia repens (Red ludwigia)
  • Riccia fluitans
  • Rotala rotundifolia
• Doing so-so:
  • Sunset Hygrophila (Hygrophila polysperma)
  • Hygrophila stricta
• Dying:
  • Vallisneria americana

Date: Oct 1995
From: Hardjono Harjadi <Hardjono.Harjadi-at-Eng.Sun.COM>

These pictures are taken 12 months the tank was set up.

• Anubias flower with air bubble attached to it.
• The same anubias from different angle
• Full view of the tank from the side with the flowering Anubias in the foreground, Rotala macrandra in the background.
• Ludwigia repens (Red ludwigia) from the top

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