LancsRick
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Right, well today's shopping has seen a bunch of clear pipework ordered from eBay, and from my LFS a Fluval Ebi and JBL e700 have been collected.
I suppose since I'm going to do this as a journal I'd better give some background.
The existing Fluval Edge (23l) in my bedroom was run as a shrimp tank, and in fairness it was a lovely looking tank. It was a pig to work on though due to the small opening, and with it being a waterfall filter, it wasn't the quietest of things unless it was 100% topped up, which didn't go down well with the other half.
Criteria for shrimp tank number 2 were defined...
1) Nano sized still, I'm not a fan of masses of water upstairs!
2) Very quiet running
3) Inhabitants to be shrimp (currently Cherry Red)
4) Look nice - hence the colourless clear pipework experiment
5) Stick to the golden rule from two angles. The reason for this is that the tank will be in the corner of the room, so it can be seen either from the bed, or from standing in the room. That's two different sides of the tank that will be looked at, so I'd like it to look good from both
In terms of layout, I wanted to try a nice basic one, so I'm going with a rock layout with eleocharis acicularis, eleocharis acicularis sp. mini, and also some weeping moss. On top of this, I've taken a bit of inspiration from the film Avatar (hence the journal title) - whilst only mocked up in the pictures (I'll use silicon and some hidden fixtures when final), I quite liked the idea of "floating" rocks, with a weeping moss "hat" on them. It will also help deal with the fact that the Ebi is quite tall for its footprint.
So, first shots below now that I've been playing with the hardscape - something that I think will work from both angles, and keep it nice and clean. This is going to be really minimalist and tidy, that's the aim.
Thoughts?
(I've made the pictures links rather than embed so hopefully people read the commentary above first!)
I suppose since I'm going to do this as a journal I'd better give some background.
The existing Fluval Edge (23l) in my bedroom was run as a shrimp tank, and in fairness it was a lovely looking tank. It was a pig to work on though due to the small opening, and with it being a waterfall filter, it wasn't the quietest of things unless it was 100% topped up, which didn't go down well with the other half.
Criteria for shrimp tank number 2 were defined...
1) Nano sized still, I'm not a fan of masses of water upstairs!
2) Very quiet running
3) Inhabitants to be shrimp (currently Cherry Red)
4) Look nice - hence the colourless clear pipework experiment
5) Stick to the golden rule from two angles. The reason for this is that the tank will be in the corner of the room, so it can be seen either from the bed, or from standing in the room. That's two different sides of the tank that will be looked at, so I'd like it to look good from both
In terms of layout, I wanted to try a nice basic one, so I'm going with a rock layout with eleocharis acicularis, eleocharis acicularis sp. mini, and also some weeping moss. On top of this, I've taken a bit of inspiration from the film Avatar (hence the journal title) - whilst only mocked up in the pictures (I'll use silicon and some hidden fixtures when final), I quite liked the idea of "floating" rocks, with a weeping moss "hat" on them. It will also help deal with the fact that the Ebi is quite tall for its footprint.
So, first shots below now that I've been playing with the hardscape - something that I think will work from both angles, and keep it nice and clean. This is going to be really minimalist and tidy, that's the aim.
Thoughts?
(I've made the pictures links rather than embed so hopefully people read the commentary above first!)