Blue Aquarium

EvolutionZ created 4x2x2ft planted. it should be pretty much of a high tech tank.. running on 4x54watt T5HO and will have co2 tank + EI dosing of fert… EvolutionZ describe about this tank…bought 2 pretty huge driftwood just now and this should be the “backbone” of the scape.. planning to add a few more branches and might have a pretty big slope, some granite rocks to support the wood as well. i guess 4 packs of soil wont be enough.

this tank will be filtered by this

my list of equipments :

tank : 120x60x60
filtration : Hagen Fluval Fx5(2300l/hr) + SunSun 3000l/hr wavemaker.
Lighting : Aquazonic 54×4 T5HO
Substrate : 45L of AquaticStyle Concept soil
Co2 system : 5L tank + Solenoid via Glass diffuser(placed under wavemaker)
Fertilizer : LUSHgro AQUA macro and micro.

Since LUSHgro aqua macro dosn’t contain PO4, bought my own dry form of KH2PO4.

5 packs of 9KG/L each of Concept soil arrived this morning..

some plants i bought from LFS, still lack of quite alot though..

soil in and wood partially tied with taiwan moss.

woah.. super tiring after planting roughly 10 pots of HC and 3 pots of HG.

5 pots green and 5 pots red stem plants.. any ID?

my FTS.. tank is cloudy cause my filter spew out lots of dirt and planting stir some soil as well.. what’s worst i accidentally broke my Fx5 fastener.. hope i can get a spare part for it.. so right now no filtration yet.. got to wait till tomorrow at least..

my mass of stem plants behind my wood, waiting for them to grow tall..

my bunch of eriocaulon ‘sp’..

Heres my FTS, tank is still yellowish due to driftwood leaking tanins…

after 2 weeks of set up, fishes are in, they are :

100 pieces of cardinal tetras
1 pair of german ram
3 juv albino angelfish
5 otos

upcoming livestock :
200 malayan shrimps ( Yes they are my favourite and they are super effective in clearing hair algae which i start seeing some among my moss)
more otos and maybe some scarlet badis..

tank is currently slightly over 2 weeks old. found out that my rotala green is creeping so shifted my stargrass to the back and rotala to the front.

Current plant list is :

Hemianthus callitrichoids (HC)
Utricularia graminifolia (UG)
Eleocharis parvula (HG)
Staurogyne‎ repens
Staurogyne stolonifera
Echinodorus tenellus
Euriocaulon sp.
Microsorum ‘narrow leaf’
Christmas moss
Taiwan moss
Staurogyne stolonifera
Hemianthus micranthemoides (HM)
Rotala ‘green’
Rotala ‘Macrandra’
Ludwigia inclinata
Ludwigia brevipes
Heteranthera zosterifolia (Stargrass)

Apologies for the cloudy tank, just did WC and trimming of moss and lots of dirt are stirred up

The main inhabitants of my 422.. albino discus..

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