Teaching of small original cylinder landscaping

Rick Chen's original small cylinder-biotope (Community Habitat) cylinder opening tutorial!

Community habitat

What we want to simulate today is the ecological environment of the Blackwater basin in South America. Friends with some basic common sense must know that the water in the Blackwater basin has a PH value of about 1, a conductivity of about 0, and a dark amber color. This is the first condition to simulate the environment. How to make the water amber dark? This time I bought Munster peat soil, which is rich in humic acid, black fuscin and trace elements, which can soften the water quality, reduce the ph value, and further increase the resistance of the fish. to put it simply, it makes the fish "feel at home."

This time, the size of the landscape cylinder is 31x18x24cm, which is a small cylinder size that is not a good challenge. First, pour in the right amount of peat soil.

Then the big leaf olive leaf, which is a common tree in the park and outdoors, has more or less the same function as peat soil, mainly to reduce ph, inhibit bacteria and stabilize water quality. because olive kernel leaves release a large number of secondary metabolites such as tannin, oxalic acid and humic acid when they are about to rot. They are all natural organic compounds.

In addition to reducing acid, the right amount of olive kernels will be added to simulate the underwater defoliation of the natural environment.

Then add gravel (in order to suppress the big leaf olive kernel leaves, prevent floating), and finally add white sand, this time the choice of white sand regardless of color and particle size, has always been impermanent love and collection, the overall feeling is natural.

Finally, the picture of releasing water ~ half water has moved your heart ~ hey ~ ~

On the first day after entering the water, a pump is used to pump air for 24 hours. At this time, there will be a large amount of peat soil floating and falling leaves. After picking up the surface of the water, change half of the water, and then raise the water for another 2 to 3 days before the fish can be released.

The only fish selected this time is the Tukano Fire Lantern. This beautiful lantern fish was introduced to Taiwan about 5 years ago. At that time, the price was about 800 yuan, but it was one of the hot beautiful lantern fish at that time. After the price has stabilized in the past few years, the total fish can start to see the picture of group travel.

In addition to the fire spirit lamp, the moonlight mouse that impermanence likes very much is also put in the jar. It looks really cute!

This is the scene a week later, in order to increase the "sense of nature", that is, "time passes", as the Japanese say, there will be some small adjustments and additions to share with you the landscape of Biotope (Community Habitat).