After a month - updated photo

After a month of my hard work on maintain the tank, now it's looking better and with healthy plants, the Red Cherry cleaned up a lot of algae on the stone and leaves. Biweekly change water also helping a lot on reduce the algae from propagates, trimmed a lot infected leaves and minor rescape done in the past month.

Later will consider add in some fishes, but afraid of the young shrimps can't survive long. So far, I am happy with only shrimps & planted tank. Need to keep the shrimps healthy, I think with the algae inside is insufficient for them, will buy some shrimp's food to feed them soon.

Tank Is Alive Again

Finally spared some times to clean up the glass and canister filter, it has been long never fertilize and change water. Since I got the CO2 gas tank, it save my time a lot to DIY the CO2 again. Certain DIY stuffs is working, but some doesn't, because we will getting lazier. Before this photo above captured, the tank full of brush algae, and most of my hairgrass infected too. Will keep posting my tank photo from now onward.

The IAPLC of 2012 is back!

Are you ready for it?

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

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2 Xue Hai TAIWAN

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3 Dmitriy Parshin RUSSIA

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4 Cliff Hui HONG KONG

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5 Fa Loy Lee MALAYSIA

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6 Koji Kogure JAPAN

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7 Chow Wai Sun HONG KONG

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8 Yuji Yoshinaga JAPAN

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9 Wai Hung Tony Wong HONG KONG

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10 Eriko Kanno JAPAN

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11 Hidekazu Tsukiji JAPAN

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12 May Kwan HONG KONG

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13 Takayuki Fukada JAPAN

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14 Chow Wing Ki HONG KONG

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15 Wang Chao CHINA

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16 Timucin Sagel TURKEY

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17 K.P. Wong HONG KONG

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18 Luis Carlos Galarraga BRAZIL

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19 Toshifumi Watanabe JAPAN

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20 Robert Oei SINGAPORE

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21 Josh Sim MALAYSIA

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22 Pasquale Buonpane ITALY

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23 Wei Cheong Chung MALAYSIA

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24 Zhang Jian Feng MACAU

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25 Abdullah Tezer TURKEY

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26 Truong Thinh Ngo VIETNAM

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27 Ng Wai Kwong HONG KONG

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.