watfish Posted August 26, 2013 Report Share Posted August 26, 2013 Hi, Just sharing a photo of a nano that I set up today. Just attempting a no-touch setup. The idea is that I shouldn't have to touch this apart from the occasional water top up and maybe adding a *teeny* bit of food once in a while. Not sure whether it will fail, but I was inspired by other similar setups that I've seen on the web. Tank: a plastic food storage container from bigW Water volume: approx 3L Inhabitants: 7 cherry shrimp Substrate: just took some from my other tanks Plants: various small plants Lighting: a typical fluoro desk lamp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wraithie Posted August 26, 2013 Report Share Posted August 26, 2013 I'm excited to see how this turns out Btw I think that your rasboras are still laying as I had a minuscule fish turn up in a tank that had moss from you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rhysl Posted August 26, 2013 Report Share Posted August 26, 2013 looks good don't shrimp need some decent airflow thou? if they all seem happy I might just set a few of these up! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Tech Den Posted August 26, 2013 Report Share Posted August 26, 2013 I set up a little nano too and had the plants and no air and they seem happy as, and breeding too. Surprised me a bit too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
momentarydiversion Posted September 19, 2013 Report Share Posted September 19, 2013 Update? How did this go? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donny@ageofaquariums Posted September 19, 2013 Report Share Posted September 19, 2013 Yea I had lightly stocked shrimp bowls for a while and they always did well with just light, water and plants. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
watfish Posted September 19, 2013 Author Report Share Posted September 19, 2013 (edited) This is still going fine. I added one dino dung (root tab) broken up in pieces to the substrate and then a layer of shrimp sand to make the substrate a bit deeper for the plant roots. The plants seem to be staying healthy so far and there is some growth (but slow). All shrimp are still alive. One shrimp was berried and had about 10 babies.. but they seemed to have died off after about a week not sure why. Perhaps the bio load was too high for the volume of water (only 3l). There's now a weird little thing swimming around in the water. It seems to be some kind of insect, but it is REALLY tiny.. like a speck of dust... too small to identify with the naked eye. I can only tell that it is a living organism due to the way it moves around in the water and lands on plant leaves and crawls around. The sides of the tank are starting to get a bit of brown algae. I also set up a second almost identical tank, but with a 3W LED desk lamp instead of a flouro desk lamp. The plants seem to be growing just as well, and the tank sides have much less algae (almost none). Edited September 19, 2013 by watfish Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
watfish Posted February 1, 2014 Author Report Share Posted February 1, 2014 (edited) Just an update. This is still going strong, driven by 3W LED lamp. The plants grow reasonably well, but slowly. No water change at all, just top ups from a bottle pre-filled with tap water + prime + dino pee. Here's a couple of pics taken tonight. Yes there is an oto in there. The sides of the container do get a build up of algae, which the oto and a nerite take care of. Unfortunately, the nerite also deposits eggs, as seen in photo. Those objects that look like rocks are actually a filter media ball broken into 4 pieces. WEB5D3_2014-5605 by cy1234, on Flickr WEB5D3_2014-5669 by cy1234, on Flickr WEB5D3_2014-5671 by cy1234, on Flickr Edited February 1, 2014 by watfish Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustAddWater Posted February 2, 2014 Report Share Posted February 2, 2014 Thats a great little tank i might step one up for the kids no power cords with water perfect for kids thanks for the idea and i see everthinh growing well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donny@ageofaquariums Posted February 2, 2014 Report Share Posted February 2, 2014 Wow, this has turned out great! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hasu11 Posted February 4, 2014 Report Share Posted February 4, 2014 nice pics as always mate come take pics my tank 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
