Andys 60l cube

[Andy Thurston]

Hi ryan Its growing a bit leggy hence the added up inline. We'll see how it grows with the extra .5ph drop over the next few weeks
The monte carlo seems to be bouncing back too no more melting it needs a really good clean but i've got 2 pots of pogostemon erectus for the gap at the back

 

[Andy Thurston]

Pogo added

 

[Andy Thurston]

I like the new inline diffuser. Plants look like this not long after lights on

I wouldn't like to put critters in though

 

[Andy Thurston]

I've put a better solenoid on my boc reg because heat was messing with the bps, just in time to beta test co2art's new needle valve.

See you don't need a co2 reg but the adapter is quite expensive, its a good job I didn't pay a lot for the regulator. Anyway once I'd finished testing the valve I put this reg back on the cube on sunday. It leaked! So on monday out came the thread lock/sealer, i took my reg in bits, cleaned off all the ptfe and glued it back together. A little plumbing and a temporary check valve

Sorted 1 bubble every 3 seconds lowers my ph by 1.5 so i guess the new up inline does its job well just need to see how plants do now.
All the plants seem to be growing well the glosso is growing upwards probably co2 related and the monte carlo has started to bounce back and is starting to spread, at last!

Hair grass has reached the front glass theres no stopping it now

 

[Ryan Thang To]

Wow its looking good Andy. I loving the background with the bright green and red

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[Andy Thurston]

I'm dying to put some shrimp in here but the john innes is adding 10 ppm daily and it rises about 25 ppm with ferts. i might try 3 water changes per week and see what happens. I might have to stick with sakuras unless it stabilizes.
The temp shrimp house has gone mental now

2kg fe just fits under the kitchen cupboard
This tank uses 4x more co2 than the cube because of its trickle filter in the hood

 

[tim]

Looking very good Andy, you could try rilli shrimp instead of sakuras, they are about as hardy as sakuras with some nice colour variants.

 

[Andy Thurston]

A little bit of a hoover, cleaned inside of glass and water change,all before lights on

 

[Deer]

Nice to see the carpet coming in. Watching this with interest!

 

[Andy Thurston]

I'm going to do a waterchange now I'll get some update pics up later
I thought I was going to lose the carpet. the hairgrass has always done quite well but the glosso is growing a bit leggy, i might rip it up, if it doesn't improve.
I'm starting to dislike tropica 12 grow pots, they seem to melt in my tanks the Alternanthera reinekii mini is melting a bit and the monte carlo melted a lot although some of that was down to the CO2 problems I had shortly after flooding.
If any one has any spare amania bonsai in submerged form, I'm interested, please send me a pm

 

[Deer]

Shame about the glosso, I have some in my current tank also but hasnt grown much at all. It looks like it would make a great looking carpet if there was only a sure way to make it grow horizontal.

 

[Andy Thurston]

Shame about the glosso, I have some in my current tank also but hasnt grown much at all. It looks like it would make a great looking carpet if there was only a sure way to make it grow horizontal.

There is... Lots of light and lots of co2
I'm starting to thing that 24w t5 lighting is not enough
Look at this in my mates tank
http://www.ukaps.org/forum/threads/dan-and-andys-crypt.28846/page-6[DOUBLEPOST=1397844377][/DOUBLEPOST]I might double up the lighting and order another boyu light[DOUBLEPOST=1397845133][/DOUBLEPOST]Anyway pictures! Warts 'n' all

 

[Andy Thurston]

Disaster
Went to change a light tube on friday to discover the ballast was dead. About right easter weekend and nowhere open to buy another and when i went looking today nowhere local had anything suitable. Plenty aquabars, too long for the tank, or marine tiles
The helpful staff who said they could order in for me got told "I may aswell order my self and get it delivered direct to my house for much less cost"
Tmc colour plus tile and controller ordered I hope it comes before the plants fade away much more.
It sometimes feels like this tank is destined to fail

 

[Andy Thurston]

Well TMC tile and controller turned up at dinner time today. So i got home from work unpacked it and set it up sorted, NOT, like everything else with this tank something has to go wrong. And i have to say for a light that costs so much to fail within 2 hours of been plugged in is f****** s***. To say i'm not happy is a massive understatement
Lets hope their customer care is better than their quality control

 

[Ryan Thang To]

Damn! I think it must been a faulty one.

 

[aliclarke86]

Customer care is really good from what I've heard mate… hope you get it sorted. I've had no trouble at all with both my tiles

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[Dan walton]

Crying out loud it's proving to be a nightmare that cube hope you get the light sorted ASAP in the meantime how about renaming the journal Andy's 60 litres of misery bummer but you know where I am if there's anything I can do

 

[Andy Thurston]

Why do i always get the faulty one. I bet they won't pay for the plants that die as a result of this failure.
If i didnt have so many hours in this tank i would have probably thrown it and its contents out of the attic window by now
I'm sure it's jinxed

 

[X3NiTH]

Like you my Tile appeared to fail after an hour or so of use after plugging into the controller. Turned out the tile power adapter wasn't seated correctly in the port on the controller (mines 8-way). It felt like it was in as far as it would go but the connector needed an extra little push and it clicked into place and the lights came back on. If your tile came with its own power adapter see if that powers the tile at max power (100%).

 

[Andy Thurston]

I think its a dead power pack the light on it went out