alex.mooring
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- 30 Dec 2014
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Hello everyone new to the forum so thought I would take the plunge and start a journal for my tank I've had for just over 3 years now. In that time I've basically chopped, hacked and butchered this tank into what it will soon become.
This is how it started, standard filtration/lights etc
I then started injecting co2 using a pub bottle and dennerle regulator and glass diffuser which I saw pretty good results.
I don't have many more pictures of the tank to be honest many have been left on an old photo bucket account but I then removed the old t8 lights in favour of a t5 wavemaker setup which did the job, I then started dosing ferts and increased the co2 and all was good.
Between then and now I carried on maintaining the tank but always wanted to go further, I purchased a cheap APS filter and ditched the standard over-tank arrangement but I ran into a few other issues and stopped dosing ferts, turned the lights down and left it to its own devices.
Well I'm sick of looking at the tank in the state that it's in. The tank itself is brilliant and everything is happy but I want a planted tank again so a little research and spending later:
2 hydor prime 30 canister filters
External 300w hydor heater
Co2 art pressurised co2 setup with diffuser and twin stage regulator.
Jbl aquabasis and manado substrate
DsunY 90cm led fixture
This should hopefully bring the tank back upto standard and I can then start heavily planting the tank and give a (kind of) high tech restart to the tank.
More pictures as and when items arrive and then I'll be tearing down the tank and replanning wiring, painted the back of tank etc etc
Thanks
This is how it started, standard filtration/lights etc
I then started injecting co2 using a pub bottle and dennerle regulator and glass diffuser which I saw pretty good results.
I don't have many more pictures of the tank to be honest many have been left on an old photo bucket account but I then removed the old t8 lights in favour of a t5 wavemaker setup which did the job, I then started dosing ferts and increased the co2 and all was good.
Between then and now I carried on maintaining the tank but always wanted to go further, I purchased a cheap APS filter and ditched the standard over-tank arrangement but I ran into a few other issues and stopped dosing ferts, turned the lights down and left it to its own devices.
Well I'm sick of looking at the tank in the state that it's in. The tank itself is brilliant and everything is happy but I want a planted tank again so a little research and spending later:
2 hydor prime 30 canister filters
External 300w hydor heater
Co2 art pressurised co2 setup with diffuser and twin stage regulator.
Jbl aquabasis and manado substrate
DsunY 90cm led fixture
This should hopefully bring the tank back upto standard and I can then start heavily planting the tank and give a (kind of) high tech restart to the tank.
More pictures as and when items arrive and then I'll be tearing down the tank and replanning wiring, painted the back of tank etc etc
Thanks