Water Change

Done water change just now, about 10%, before going back to Bintulu this weekend. I sucked out dirts from tank bottom as well.

pH after water change around 6.63.

2nd Compartment

Close look at the new bio rings:




Overall view:




pH around 6.55 at noon.

Quick Update

Can't wait any longer so just finished put in and arranged the new bio rings into the 2nd compartment! (late at night!)


Arrangement at 2nd compartment now is as follows:

Bottom Layer:
- 1 layer of sponge.

Centre Layer:
- Ceramic Rings - Bio Rings - Ceramic Rings & Coral Chips.

Last but not least, water plant on top.

Thus in total I got around 10kg of ceramic/bio rings!


pH around 6.5 at 10 p.m.

Bio Ring

Just got another 3kg of larger and porous bio ring today!



Here the 3kg rings in the net, will put them into the 2nd compartment at the moment. Later will move it to 3rd compartment substituting the Japanese mats.

Rearrangement (Part 2)

Not satisfied with the arrangement yesterday so I bought another soft and more durable net to hold more ceramic rings.

Here's the new net with ceramic rings (around 2kg):




Here's the net that I bought yesterday (around 2kg):




Here's the coral chips I put in yesterday (around 1kg):




Here's the water plant I tied together with aluminum as weight/anchor.




Here's the first (Japanese mats), second (coral chips - 1kg, ceramic rings - 6kg, sponges) and third compartments (Japanese mats):




Here's the fourth compartment (just return pump, UV and some feeder fishes):




Overview (UV pumps water to Over Head Filter filled with 1kg infra-red ceramic rings and water return to first compartment):




pH reading today around 6.46 at 11:30 a.m.




Next "project" will be getting another 8 kg of ceramic rings for the 3rd compartment substituting the existing Japanese mats. Will be my next projects. Maybe I'll just get those red coloured one which I bought earlier that claims can release infra-red and create energy water.

Ceramic Rings Arrangement

Did some arrangement with the ceramic rings at the second compartment. Repack the smaller pack into a larger soft nylon bag I just bought and try spread them on the floor of second compartment so that water will flow through the ceramic rings evenly.

Here's the final result with some sponge at the bottom to stop dirts from first compartment.




pH around 6.3. Thus added in 1kg of coral chips.

My Plochilodus

Managed to take a nice shot of my Plochilodus aka Flagtail or 飞凤 ！