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5l & 10l setups for Collar sales event

Alexander Belchenko

Alexander Belchenko

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I was asked to help set up 2 nano tanks (5 and 10 liters) for sales event of Collar - this is Ukrainian manufacturer of goods for dogs, cats and fish. In the aquarium sector they make led light units (Aqualighter), silent small air pumps (aPump), and optiwhite tanks from 5 up to 180 liters.

I was very interested to participate in such event and wanted to try no matter what, just to get this new experience.

I was asked to set up one tank with rocks and another with wood. I've decided to put small iwagumi like layout to 5 liters and put red crystal there, and use branches in 10 liters and put small shoal of tetra amandae.

I wasn't on the event itself, but I was told my setups attracted a lot of attention from participants. Very pleased.

22402977682_5f3e023ded.jpg5 and 10 liters side by side by Alexander, on Flickr

21793370964_d9728f339e.jpg17x17x17 - Daquarium 5l by Collar by Alexander, on Flickr

22228326270_516e0564c7.jpg22x22x22 - aGlass 10l by Collar by Alexander, on Flickr
 
It's happened again ;)

I've been asked about setting up 2 tanks for Collar this year, and couldn't resist. Though I had less free time (too muh main work!). So I prepared 2 tanks at home and then carefully carryied them to the place, lucky for me it was just 10 minutes walk. Nothing special, I've just put plants I had in my home tank (dragon stones) and re-used the same composition from my cherry compote tank from work which was dismantled several weeks before I ever know I will be asked to do this job.

Not very great pictures, just to illustrate. And yes, I'm quite proud to help this company.

These pictures was taken right after the event, about 9 hours after I installed the tanks.

30899844802_9c339fe3ea_z.jpg2016 October 21 by Alexander, on Flickr

31042052235_a343292653_z.jpg2016 October 21 by Alexander, on Flickr

31042058595_5bb70708de.jpg2016 October 21 by Alexander, on Flickr
 
Love both 10l set ups and the second 5l is great also.

Been reading good things about the aPump, AquaLighter, I like the look of the aLift filter I think it is?
 
Light units: on 5l pico light - it's just enough to grow undemanding plants. You can check my Cherry mix journal - I had this tank set at my work office and run it successfully for many months with anubias petite and some buces. Excellent light for low tech. Only one complain: it cannot be operated by timer due the touch design of the switch. It should be turned on manually by your own hands.

On 10l the light is much more powerful. Maybe slightly too much for ten liters tank. Again I had successfully running this light at my office with 20l tank of different brand - and found it quite good. So on 10l it seems very bright, but I've never used it for a long time yet so have no idea whether it will require CO2 to match the power of light.

In both tank sets there is the same model of unbranded madeinchina internal filter with 200 lph power (probably Sun-Sun). For show tanks I've used just goose neck output but for a long term I'd strongly recommended using spray bar (available in the set) to reduce stress on livestock. In 5l I placed spray bar output facing nearby glass side so it reduced flow quite a bit. If you put spray bar output in a classic way towards the opposite glass side - it still produces quite strong flow in such small volume. So it depends what do you need actually.

Can't comment on aLift as I've never used it yet.

HTH.
 
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