90X45X45 finally.....

[adipnayak]

Originally Posted by divadnart

It is too soon, the grass should start filling in once its established in the tank. 2wpg should be enough for hairgrass. Ime, they do not require high lighting. You should wait another week or 2 to decide about your lighting/co2 decisions. From the look of your pictures, it does not seem you have a drop checker. I would suggest you buying one on ebay or something and also buy 4dkh solution for the drop checker. For the dosing of excel, it is a capful for every 10 gallon. I believe, you can dose excel daily.

Originally Posted by Shadow

for excel just follow the instruction, you can dose daily. Do not buy drop checker if you does not plan to inject CO2 gas. Drop checker wont be able to determine excel concentration in your tank.

hey guys thanks for your reply. I am using a pressurised co2 Sera system. I used their drop checker you can see it on the right in the earlier images, but took it off as the color wasnt changing even after having it there for nearly a week. Plus there was a deposit of a slimy white cotton like substance which looked like algae to me all over the drop checker. I am guessing coz it contained some sort of chemical that attracted it.
I'll wait another week before adding another 90W like you suggested. Thanks will keep you guys posted...

[Shadow]

I do not have Sera drop checker, so I do not know what the instruction said. but in general, you need to use kH = 4 water instead of your tank water. In order to check whether the drop checker working or not, you can take it out from the tank and wait for couple of hours, it should turn to blue.

[adipnayak]

hey guys just realized the hairgrass in the tank is mainly Japanese HG. I had asked for a few pots of Japanese HG & more of the standard HG but i guess they got it vice versa.
DO Japanese HG spread as well as the standard HG??
Why is my Vivipara in a mess? it isn't like the vivipara photos i see online hehe?? Its all entangled within each other a bit of a mess but growing quite decently...

[Jur4ik]

Hi,
No idea about the HG, but to comment on vivipara please post new pics

[adipnayak]

Originally Posted by Jur4ik

Hi,
No idea about the HG, but to comment on vivipara please post new pics

heheheh here you go....i really appreciate all you guys replying especially Jur4ik & Shadow its a real moral booster....thanks

Ok so here goes...
Day 15:
Have added a heater & the sera drop checker....it was my mistake i had not added any tank water into the checker & was wondering why it didn't work heheh duHh!!!




I like the way evrythings growing out but its kinda spotty in places! Is it my planting mistake? Does the Vivipara look like this when its growing in? how do i get the Japanese HG to spread faster? Patience??

[Jur4ik]

Originally Posted by adipnayak

...i really appreciate all you guys replying especially Jur4ik & Shadow its a real moral booster....thanks

I like the way evrythings growing out but its kinda spotty in places! Is it my planting mistake? Does the Vivipara look like this when its growing in? how do i get the Japanese HG to spread faster? Patience??

you welcome

have you ever trimmed the hairgrass? usualy it do the trick
Have never tried the same with vivipara so please wait for someone to acknowledge.

[adipnayak]

Originally Posted by Jur4ik

you welcome

have you ever trimmed the hairgrass? usualy it do the trick
Have never tried the same with vivipara so please wait for someone to acknowledge.

hey there, i have trimmed it before planting it which was 15days ago. Does this trick work with Japanese HG too?

[Jur4ik]

what is the difference between normal an japanese HG?

[adipnayak]

Originally Posted by Jur4ik

what is the difference between normal an japanese HG?

doesn't Japanese HG grow out curly and bend backwards instead of growing straight like normal HG??

[Jur4ik]

well, this might be so
Last time I kept HG it was almost traight with no curls.
Somehow I like the curly effect - looks lush and soft. Give it some more time to grow and it will fill in stronger

[Shadow]

yes it is vivipara. It is normal vivipara always messy, you need to comb them before photo shoot

Japanese HG is curly, normal HG just straight.

[adipnayak]

hey there its day21 just took a few pictures and made a collage hope you like...

[Jur4ik]

very nice, everything so white

[tirtha1979]

Nice location and smooth to eyes. Are you getting any sunlight by any chance?

[adipnayak]

Originally Posted by tirtha1979

Nice location and smooth to eyes. Are you getting any sunlight by any chance?

hey there almost none this picture should clear it out for ya......

[Jur4ik]

well, too clean and too white now
However, tank looks looking good

[Shadow]

did you customize your light set? look pretty cool

[adipnayak]

Originally Posted by Shadow

did you customize your light set? look pretty cool

yepp the cabinet and the light housing is made by me and a friend at his workshop...painted the light hood myself yesterday and took a few pictures...
am loving it...would have definately improved on the design if i had the budget. well will on my next one...yippyy

[adipnayak]

hey guys my 500g/17.6oz sera co2 tank is over in 25days roughly.....would like to know how much do you guys pay to refill a tank of similar size?
Also my supplier says he's unable to provide liquid CO2 so i am guessing i would be getting it in a gas form..any differnce???

[Shadow]

normally you will get CO2 in gas form. I'm read somewhere that you should get the food grade one instead of industrial grade. Industrial grade is less pure, not sure how true