My-Aquatic World

Friday, February 24, 2012

The IAPLC of 2012 is back!

Are you ready for it?

Tuesday, November 1, 2011

ADA International Aquatic Plants Layout Contest (IAPLC) 2011 winners' photo

Finally has the complete list & photos of top 27 winners of the 2011 ADA International Aquatic Plants Layout Contest.

1 Long Tran Hoang VIETNAM

2 Xue Hai TAIWAN

3 Dmitriy Parshin RUSSIA

4 Cliff Hui HONG KONG

5 Fa Loy Lee MALAYSIA

6 Koji Kogure JAPAN

7 Chow Wai Sun HONG KONG

8 Yuji Yoshinaga JAPAN

9 Wai Hung Tony Wong HONG KONG

10 Eriko Kanno JAPAN

11 Hidekazu Tsukiji JAPAN

12 May Kwan HONG KONG

13 Takayuki Fukada JAPAN

14 Chow Wing Ki HONG KONG

15 Wang Chao CHINA

16 Timucin Sagel TURKEY

17 K.P. Wong HONG KONG

18 Luis Carlos Galarraga BRAZIL

19 Toshifumi Watanabe JAPAN

20 Robert Oei SINGAPORE

21 Josh Sim MALAYSIA

22 Pasquale Buonpane ITALY

23 Wei Cheong Chung MALAYSIA

24 Zhang Jian Feng MACAU

25 Abdullah Tezer TURKEY

26 Truong Thinh Ngo VIETNAM

27 Ng Wai Kwong HONG KONG

Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Under testing of the new chemical dosage calculator

Just redo the chemical dosage calculator, need to run some test before sharing to people. Perhaps if you have some ideas (see from picture), please suggest it to me, thank you.

Initially another dosage calculator was shared by a friend, I found it completely too complicate to use, that's how this dosage calculator was created by me. The first version is very simple and created in year 2007, and no improvement since 2008. This new calculator is the 8th generation, still has some room to get improve. After a few test on it, will upload it for sharing.

Saturday, April 23, 2011

I am back! I am back!!

Since my last post was months ago, the tank also left behind for months. As seen on the photo above, growth with green spot algae, blue green algae and hair algae too. It's a mess tank, really ugly to present, those hair grass also unhealthy and others too. Since I have some ample time to reset certain things, yes! I did it few days ago.

After spent few hours to make over the setting such as cleared the tank glass wall, suck out the fish waste on the ground, took away the drift wood, washed the canister filter, brew new DIY CO2, and etc. And now it's look clean & clear. The shrimps and snails survive in a less chemical tank, of course there are some new generations too. A serious algae infected tank is very hard to cure, but time to time monitoring is a must, and also the control of fertilizer plays the important role in this stage. Is a bit suffer for me to recall what ever the dosage I did before, so lucky that I had created an dosage calculator(chart below) years ago, now is really helpful for me.

Two days later noticed some of the algae has gone, at least now can see the shrimps & snails eating none stopped. I think need a half tank of water change today, to help to get rid of the algae faster. At the moment I am not going to add in any shrimps or fishes, to prevent the over crowded population for them.

Sunday, November 7, 2010

ADA International Aquatic Plants Layout Contest (IAPLC) 2010 winners' photo

Finally I can see some IAPLC 2010 contest photos, congrats to those in top 27. I am sharing some nice photos to those who visited & following my blog, and those winners really amazed me with their setup, I believe by next year will see more great tanks. Good job & Ganbatte Kudasai(Japanese, means Good luck/Give it your best).