[NikoLeFrench]

Hello everyone,

My name is Nicolas and live in Bucharest Romania. I am completely new to the hobby.
I started a low tech aquarium about 3 months ago.
I've been browsing the forum for a while. And finally decided to create an account, to be part of this amazing community !

Tech:

• Tank size: 60 x 30 x 30 cm (54L)
• Filtering: cheap 300 L/h nano filter (diversa claro 300)
  Lighting: Twinstar B line 60b
• Substrate: 1 inch lava rocks + 2 inches Dennerle shrimp king soil (I have some regrets about this after having read Diana Walstad book, but it seems to be ok for now)
• Heater: Small Aquael nano heater.

Population:

• 11 Glowlight rasbora
• 3 Amano shrimp
• 8 Caradina sp. orange shrimp (neocaradina davidi either Jinsha or Sunkist Orange, let's see when they reach maturity).
• 1 unknown female shrimp (possibly an old neocaridina...), which was in the Amano batch. It just got berried yesterday.
• 2 Nerites Zebras
• ? Malaysian Trumpet Snails
• ? Physa Acuta (hitchhikers)

Water:

• Temp: 24 degrees celsius
• PH: 7.7
• GH: 7
• KH: 7
• NH4: 0 mg/L
• No2: 0 mg/L
• No3: 5-10 mg/L
• Fe: 0.1 mg/L
• Cu: 0 mg/L
• TDS: 250 ppm

Plants (from back to front):

• Elodea densa
• Hygrophila polysperma
• Amazon sword
• Murdannia keisak
• Anubias nana barteri
• Java moss
• Marsulea hirsuta
• Floating: Salvinia + FrogBit

I only have a tiny bit of hair algae from time to time depending on the density of the floating plants, light intensity (currently 60%)
I am currently experimenting with a middle day siesta: 4h on, 5h off, 4h on.
I had some difficulties with the growth of the Hygrophila at first because of a lack of Nitrogen (and almost all the plants), but it got better since I started dosing some commercial nitrogen fert (my No3 was close to 0)

And finally a picture:

 

[Cawafuoshi]

Looks great! 54 liters is a good size to experiment.

 

[imported_John]

Welcome. Tank looks great.

 

[Oremus]

Wow! That looks amazing! Is this your first ever fish tank?

 

[Donald C]

Hi Nicolas! That is a nice looking tank.

 

[NikoLeFrench]

Wow! That looks amazing! Is this your first ever fish tank?

Yes, but I have to admit I got hooked. I am about 2 starts 2 other 10 liters...