The world's smallest planter tank

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tcNNvhbkQ4

3 Years Achievements Of The Previous Tank Set Up

ADA International Aquatic Plants Layout Contest (IAPLC) 2014 winners' photo

 1 Grégoire Wolinski

 2 Long Tran Hoang

 3 築地 秀和

 4 Diego Marinelli

 5 深田 崇敬

 6 Xuan Thuy Nguyen Thi

 7 陳松儐

 8 Truong Thinh Ngo

 9 Nichole Wong

 10 王超

11 小野 昌志

 12 Serkan Cetinkol

 13 タナカ カツキ

 14 半田 浩規

 15 Julien Voultoury

 16 Robertus Hartono

 17 Olivier Thebaud

 18 Jiraporn Sripraserth

 19 张剑锋

 20 鈴木 敦

21 Narto Tan

 22 Grigoriy Polishchuk

 23 杨锡纬

 24 許錦汶

 25 Jean Francois Maillot

 26 Juan Puchades

27 范哲敏

Smaller type of surface skimmer

This blog has been stopped updating since 3 years ago, also no more any further upgrade of the tank since then. Day by days some of the plants already decease and algae growing fast on all over the glass wall, luckily the filter system is working good until now, the water in the tank still clear.

Last week suddenly in the mood of wanted to remove the ugly algae and redo a bit, it tooks me almost a day to clean, trim, and replace a new smaller type Taiwan brand surface skimmer. But after a week of using it, I can tell this small space saving product is as good as the huge surface skimmer, highly recommended to hobbiest.

I will try to update more in this blog to keep track of the so called new tank. Added in a new planet name Helanthium Bolivianum, hope fully is suits to keep in such a small tank like this.

Chelated Trace Elements

Recently went to a local hardware shop (Ace hardware) for my gardening stuffs and fertilizer, but saw a quite good product for aquasacpe to use as well, the chelated trace elements. I have read a lot about this chemical name and yet saw the real actual powder. The 1kg chelated TE pack as shown in the photo, cost about RM59 (about US$18). Usually I bought the 1kg small pack of Potassium Nitrate, Potassium Phosphate, and Magnesium Sulphate from local chemical shop, but TE only sell in huge amount and we don't really that much. Even the 1kg TE mix in the water is able to use for years, so is good enough for my aquascape and gardening uses.