Claire
Member
Heya,
Finally got my 35L planted and filled at the weekend. I call it the "noptiwhite" as it is anything but optiwhite - it's a bit of a tatty old tank, but I've taken the hood off (with it's single t8 bulb…) and put a clip-on light on for now. Looking hopefully to upgrade to LED at some point if and when budget allows.
This was it just with hardscape:
And now planted and filling:
Got some more mosses arriving this week to put on the wood to "soften" it a bit as especially the right hand piece is very square.
There are no photos of it filled as when I went to start up the filter (second hand eheim 2213), nothing happened. It gurgled and rattled and made a hell of a noise but pumped water so slow that it dribbled. I took the head off the filter and put it in a bucket to see what was going on, but I think the bearings/bushes have gone on the impeller shaft as it the impeller seems to have way too much movement.
So new parts ordered, the ugliest internal filter ever made has been employed as a temporary measure to try and get some flow about it, but the co2 distribution is quite horrendous with it, so we'll see if the plants make it!
All in a days scaping…
Finally got my 35L planted and filled at the weekend. I call it the "noptiwhite" as it is anything but optiwhite - it's a bit of a tatty old tank, but I've taken the hood off (with it's single t8 bulb…) and put a clip-on light on for now. Looking hopefully to upgrade to LED at some point if and when budget allows.
This was it just with hardscape:
And now planted and filling:
Got some more mosses arriving this week to put on the wood to "soften" it a bit as especially the right hand piece is very square.
There are no photos of it filled as when I went to start up the filter (second hand eheim 2213), nothing happened. It gurgled and rattled and made a hell of a noise but pumped water so slow that it dribbled. I took the head off the filter and put it in a bucket to see what was going on, but I think the bearings/bushes have gone on the impeller shaft as it the impeller seems to have way too much movement.
So new parts ordered, the ugliest internal filter ever made has been employed as a temporary measure to try and get some flow about it, but the co2 distribution is quite horrendous with it, so we'll see if the plants make it!
All in a days scaping…