Dave's TMC Signature Island

[Dave Pierce]

I decided to design and have an aluminium bracket made for my lights (NA style) to fit the 600mm width of the TMC, I'll post some pics up when I get it if you like.

Cheers Gary yeah some pics would be nice

What have you used to hang the light from the rail?

I used the suspension wires that came with the kit. They didn't fit onto the light so I had to do a bit of DIY to fit them. But essentially it was an all in one light suspension kit that fits most lights, but not all unless you fancy a bit of DIY/improvisation!

 

[Dave Pierce]

Long time no speak....been veeery busy with work lately.

However, managed to borrow a mates Cannon 600D

Some very amature photo shots coming up will be practising more over the coming weeks (if I have time!)

Here we go:

Canon Shot1 by dpierce5, on Flickr


Canon Shot2 by dpierce5, on Flickr


Canon Play1 by dpierce5, on Flickr


Canon Play2 by dpierce5, on Flickr

Hopefully my skills will improve in the future!

 

[Dave Pierce]

Small update,

The light is fully raised as high as my light suspension will go. I am going for an experiment and connected a 2nd t5 (2 in total now) and ramped up the co2. I have never managed to completely eradicate the brown algae yet, therefore I am ramping up the co2 as much as it will go without hurting fish in an effort to minimize the diatoms.

I'm aslo going to increase my water changes to 3 times per week, I was only doing one 60% change per week before.

In the new year, when things are less busy, I am going to re-scape. Not sure what I want to do yet, however I do quite fancy getting some more rocks and making these more of a feature. As this was a rather low-tech slow growing system, I quite fancy trying a high-light, fast growing scape.

I also quite fancy testing Tropica's or TMC's nutrient substrate under the gravel, just to see how well this affects PH, growth, roots and plant health.

I am definitely going to suspend the light from the ceiling next time!

Lot's of thinking to do

Anyway, here are some snaps I took this evening:


TMC22 by dpierce5, on Flickr


TMC25 by dpierce5, on Flickr


TMC26 by dpierce5, on Flickr


TMC23 by dpierce5, on Flickr

 

[Lindy]

I feel as an island scape this would have looked nicer without such a high carpet, or no carpet at all.

 

[LondonDragon]

Update time

 

[tim]

This still running Dave or you on to the next one ??