Upgrading to a new 2ft Tank (Day 1)

Been a long time since I updated the blog. I'm finally doing so because I will be upgrading my tank to a new 2ft tank below!

Setup getting ready for the rest of my equipments to arrive.

8 Lt of ADA Amazonia waiting to give it a go. This is my favourite soil at the moment as I have great success with it in my office tank.

Of course the tank will take a minimum 4 weeks for the bacteria to fully develop. To help with the development, I will be adding a full bottle of Old sea mud powder and re-use my old canister filter.

After applying the powder in the tank.

Always add a plastic bag before you start filling up water so that you won't mess up your tank.

I will start adding my canister the next day after everything stabilize. Stay Tuned! 

Colony of Ramshorn Snail

http://instagr.am/p/M9zmMpFySX/

Tonight we DINE! 

Building my own Aquarium Ceramic Shrimp Breeding cave

And so you may have seen something a Shrimp breeding cave at your local fish shop and always wanted to buy one. But wait, what is the price again? $9? for something like that? I wouldn't want to pay that amount of money for something that can be made easily!

First of all, you will need some pvc pipes or clear plastic tubes, I got some clear plastic tubes as they were available from the under gravel filter that I didn't use.

Next, you will need a piece of net, the same one which I have been using for all my java moss wall.

First, I tried to tie the pipes together with a tie wrap. It didn't really work out well as the nudge of the tie wrap makes tying the Java moss on pretty difficult. What I did was used fishing line to secure the pipes together.

You will then need some Java moss, I had plenty in my tank so this was also "Free"

Next apply some Java moss onto the "tied pipes"

Then I wrapped the Net onto the java moss and apply another round of fishing line to securely fasten everything together. Remember to trim the excess net/java away to make it look neater

And the End product below. I have also tried this with Pelia and it works pretty well!

New Play ground for my shrimps, YAY!

Android with Instagram!

And so Instagram decided to venture into the Android market as they realized the potential this OS is capable of. As soon as it is launched, I couldn't miss the opportunity to take a few shorts.

rili on Java moss

Frogbits.

Can't wait to exploit the advance technology to capture more pretty pictures.

Stay tune!

Hello Rili Mama!

Photo Shoot for the Mama !

And so there I was saying the brownie is always hiding, a very candid shy shrimp and BAM~ there she is, at the front of the tank waiting for me to picture her in this album. 

Ran to my room to get my macro lens and took a few shots of her, only 2 of the lot turn out well before she went back into the hiding.

You can really see that she is really small in size and not very colorful like the others.

Talk about luck, lady Yellow fire shrimp came along as well for a photo shoot. Only a brief moment but more then enough for me to capture a shot of her. A little blurry but that is all I have, only 1 shot. If you look closely you can see the little eyes on the eggs under her belly! CUTE!

And guess who decides to play as well!

Bat man mode Berried Rili.

Drip Method for Acclimatization

As I have spoken a few times about the drip method for Acclimatization, I don't think I have ever posted any pictures on how I do it. Heres how;

1) First of all, you will need 1 of this air tube valves, a very simple mechanism that allows you to control the flow of the air bubbles from your air pump.

2)However, instead of controlling the flow of air, we will be controlling the flow of water here.

3)Next you will have to connect to a long enough air tube that can reach 1 end of your tank to your Acclimatization "cup". Below is a picture of how I connect them.

4) Next step will be to siphon water into the tube so that you can create a flow from a higher end to a lower end. In this case, my tank to the "cup".

5) Finally, you turn the little knob on control valve till you get approximately 1 drop of water for 2-3 secs and viola, you have just achieved the Acclimatization technique.

cheers!