6 feet comm tank test results after WC

6 feet comm tank:-

After water changed, added salts and more plants... the test results does not seem to have much different.

PH should be around 7.6 (could be due to water changed)
Ammonia is still zero
Nitrite should be zero
Nitrate seems to be still around 40-80ppm...
Is there no way to bring now the nitrate to zero ?

Eco friendly product

Eco Friendly product for fish keeper.
With this, maintenance are only water top up and fish feeding.... so simple now ??

Eco Friendly product

Air Detoxification

Air Detoxification

This is the first time i am seeing such product in Singapore... Orchard Road department store selling...
The plants are real and there is LED lighting on top to support the plants.
Not sure what kind of substrate are these but they look hard and there is some kind of wool type that goes into the water below with the guppies inside...

RGB Led effects

Took a night video with the Warmlight LED and RGB LED.
Water last changed was on 29-DEC-12 and filter wool changed on 6-JAN-13.
Completely do away with filter wool since 6-Jan-2013, using using plants and spronge for mechanical filtering.

PH meter showing 8.20 as i top up ph buffering few days back.

Test results for 6feet tank

Since i got the API master test kit, i decided to do a test before i carry out my water changed next week.

After waiting few minutes
PH 7
Ammonia 0ppm
Nitrite 0.25ppm
Nitrate 40ppm

New 2 feet tank

Just bought a new 2x1x1.5 feet tank.

New arrival

Finally, the things have arrived.

Juvenile arowana

2 juvenile arowana.

Small tank with lots of algae

Small Tank look very green.

2nd DIY fish cage

2nd DIY fish cage.
Much less work involved as compare to 1st DIY.

More plants to IOUS

More healthy plants in IOUS

Kelberi Bahia Gold

Kelberi Bahia Gold Close up video shot

DIY fish cage for NGT1

DIY a fish cage for the NGT1

First betta

My first betta

Power meter

Power meter to check LED consumption.

Small tank setup attempt

Small tank setup.

Sump tank changes

Major changes to the 6 feet tank sump.

Red Tail Arowana

My Red Tail Golden Arowana

NGT3

Another NGT Datnoid - NGT3

4 bars Datnoid

Close up video shot of my 4-bar Indo Tiger Datnoid.

3 bar Datnoid

Close up video shot of my 3-bar Indo Tiger Datnoid

Rays feeding

Feeding of the rays

Cichlids Tank updates - Dec'12

Dec'12 - Cichlids Tank updates.

NGT2

Another NGT Datnoid - NGT2

Prototype 2 - moss ball in sump

Experiment 2
Using moss ball in sump.

Prototype 1 - plants in IOUS

Experiment 1
Introduce plants in the IOUS.

Feeding Time

Feeding Time.

My first attempt in fish keeping in 2009

Another very old video taken around mid 2009.
My first fish tank setup.

NGT1

Nov'12 - New member - NGT Datnoid

Showcase of 0.7W led on ray tank

Using one bar of 0.7W Whitelight LED.

Showcase of 0.7W brightlight led

Ikea whitelight LED - each bar is 0.7W
The package comes with 4 bars of the LED and one adapter.
I use one bar each for the Cichlids tank and ray tank.
I kept the other 2 bars as spare.

The smaller Cichlids are relocated out

Relocated the Cichlids... Much less aggression in the tank.

Showcase 0.6W warmlight led

0.6W x 3 , 0.6W adapter
Ikea Warmlight LED (I used these LED for all of my 3 tanks. Very comfortable to view at night and saving of electricity and bills. All this little factor helps to keep the hobby going.

New home for the Cichlids

5 feet Cichlids tank. Finally a place of their own.

New big home for the little guys

Cute cute fishes... when initially introduce to their new home.

Initial 2 feet tank

A very old video dated December 2011.
These blood parrots are the same ones in the 6 feet tank.

Internal filter for sump

Adding an internal filter pump to the last compartment of the sump tank.
I would say the effect is quite good.
It cleans the surface oil and fine polish the water further.

Updates of ray tank - Oct'12

October 2012 Updates of the stingray tank

Updates of comm tank - Oct'12

October 2012 - Updates of the 6 feet comm tank.

6 and 5 feet tank updates

Updates of the running 6 feet and 5 feet tanks.

Rays relocated to new home

Moved the 2 rays to their new home.

Female ray

The female SP ray has grown to quite something.

Bottom tank starts operation

Filled up IOUS and OHF with mechanical and biomedia.
Add water and some hardy livestock.
The water output from the OHF is quite loud so i DIY using washing machine filter net and tie to the OHF output. Much much better after that.

New setup of IOUS bottom tier tank

Setting up the bottom 5 feet tank.
It comes with IOUS and i got some help to install addition Mr Aqua OHF.

Showcase the Tigers!

Showcase 5 out of 6 of my Indo Tigers datnoid.
Strangely, the one out of sight and refuse to come out eventually died few days later after this video was taken.

Indo Tiger has big appetite

Small Indo Tiger datnoid with small mouth, but big in appetite.

Rays fighting over a feeder fish

2 rays fighting over one feeder...
Who will get it ?

Resolved the reflection issue

By finding the source of the reflection, i have managed to create a dark space to blind out the reflection.

Show of Ikea warmlight led

Ikea 2.4W warmlight LED.
Adapter uses 0.6W and 3 bars of LED uses 1.8W.

Blood parrots egg

Blood parrots eggs.

Showcase of using feeder with glass cover

Showing how to use Ehiem feeder even with glass cover.
Just need an inch hole width opening.

Preparing for nesting

Blood parrots preparing for nesting...
Pity male are sterile. 

Addition Indo Tiger

Bought new Indo Tiger (Datnoid) around May'12.

RTG and my dancing ray

Red Tail Golden arowana and my dancing ray....

There is something under the sand..

can you see me ?

First Arowana

My first arowana. A red tail golden.

New layout for comm tank

New rocks layout done in end April 2012.

NTT Datnoid

You will be missed.

Foods are here ... Charge !!!

This video always excite me...

Bloodparrot penthouse unit

Cute Blood parrot resting at the penthouse unit.

New American Tiger or called as Silver Dat

Bought 2 new American Tiger (Datnoid).

IP cam for fish tank monitoring

Showcase using IP camera to monitor fish tank, even when you are not physically there.
With smartphone technology, you can even view your ip camera using mobile phone, tablet etc.

Leopard catfish

My first leopard cat fish.

Full shot of 6 feet comm tank

Full tank video shot.

First uploaded youtube video

My first youtube video.
All these happens around April 2012.

Blog for fish keeping

I am going to do a large amount of updates on my blog.
Alot has happened over the year 2012 and i have decided to document as much within this month.