Earth Day 22th April 2008 Part 4.

Nasir is busy trimming and cleaning the Cryptocoryne minima.


TS helping out to rearrange the sitting position...


Workshop going to start. As the audiaence are coming in. Seats were fully taken. Some were standing behind.


Here we have Hans welcoming the MC of the day.......(you can guess who....)


Oh man...is ME! Worst MC of the day.


Nasir is explaning what a biotope is and how the tank is to be setup to become......


First we'll have the sand as the base. Either river sand or holland sand... both can be use right after cleaning. The layout will look more natural if using river sand...


Oh man...My hand is not long enough...


Then driftwood is place to position within the golden section (What is Golden Section stand for? I will come out with this next time.)


Here, i am explaining to the public why the bag of Guoramis in tea colour water and why that these fauna can only be found in these water conditions.


Dry or dead leaves found where the fish is caught is used to lower down the water pH and condition as well as to provided nutrient for the plants indirectly.



Nasir is started planting...


A bag pf plastic is place on top of the setup. Water is then pour gently on top of it to prevent the force from the water to dispur the setup.

Water is pour till an inch above the soil for easy planting.

Water is fill till almost the top (I need to carry the pail up in order to provide sufficient force for the water to siphon out fro the pail to the tank)


The water is fill almost to the top and mix with the brakish water from where we got the faunas. This wil ensure we have a similar water condition for the fauna so they will not then to stress out much.

Then some portion of the tank water is mix with the water in the bag where the chocolate gouramis is and place inside the tank to reduce thier stress (Joe Lim can explain much detail than me on this...)

Similar floatig plants found on the catching site is place into the tank as well. These are know as a carnivourous plants - Utriculata gibba

Place the whole plastic bag into the tank before release the chocolate gouramis into the tank. This is to make the chocolate gouramis to get use to the tank water temperature.

Finally the water and the guoramis is mix and release into then tank

Done....And of couse, this tank will take months to mature and the aquatic plants will take months to grow and fully covered the tank.

Explaining to the public on the tank and other planted tank setup

Photograph session...

MAC....


Crew of the day....



p/s: All of these pictures taken by Canon 400D. with Sigma len 18-200mm and Sony A200.