The temperatures are about ok enough for the fish to go outside, we have already pretty warm days with 25°C in the sun even a few hours 19°C water temperatur at the heigth of the day. SO all warm enough to start wth setting up the base tub for the fish. The plants that overwintered in the tub comming back steadily, so also them can use some fish poo.
Next years gutter is gone and this year i would like to try a new <planted filterbox>. I yet didn't build, that i do next month, but it will stand between the wall and the tub. Actualy no idea how that will work out, because i only thought out the concept in theory. And in theory it should do ok. We will see..
In this corner i'll place the overflow. So finaly i think i found the way to have no need of a pump in the tub.. It's going to be a sump system with the pump in the planted box.
What intrigues me is the <Potentilla palustris - Marsh Cinquefoil> I find sevral discriptions about it's planting depth (10cm), i guess suppliers relate this information to the size of the plant they offer. But in it's natural habitat as mature plant it seems to grow in up to <30 cm deep water>
and seeing myself how this plant grows a new future experiment comes to mind for the outdoor aqaurium (For now that's still in the cellar). Anyway, it's a Rosaceae family member and it forms wooden stems, it's actualy a shrub. I think a mature potentilla shrub in a 30 cm shallow aquarium has some intruiging potential displaying it's wooden stems submersed, followed with it's emersed foilage. Last year, i found that the <Calla palustris - Bog Arum> also has a darn nice <atractive looking submersed horizontaly growing rhizome> the thing is it didn't realy do good overwintering indoors, it seems this plant 1 is not an evergreen and needs a resting periode or 2 it needs a ton of light to survive an indoor tank. I yet do not know what it is, but ti didn't do very wel indoors. Next experiment in this mission will be this Marsh cinquefoil and see how this will survive indoor conditions in an aquarium. But now i'm running way ahead, the summer is starting and only next winter will reveal that outcome.
Next years gutter is gone and this year i would like to try a new <planted filterbox>. I yet didn't build, that i do next month, but it will stand between the wall and the tub. Actualy no idea how that will work out, because i only thought out the concept in theory. And in theory it should do ok. We will see..
In this corner i'll place the overflow. So finaly i think i found the way to have no need of a pump in the tub.. It's going to be a sump system with the pump in the planted box.
What intrigues me is the <Potentilla palustris - Marsh Cinquefoil> I find sevral discriptions about it's planting depth (10cm), i guess suppliers relate this information to the size of the plant they offer. But in it's natural habitat as mature plant it seems to grow in up to <30 cm deep water>
and seeing myself how this plant grows a new future experiment comes to mind for the outdoor aqaurium (For now that's still in the cellar). Anyway, it's a Rosaceae family member and it forms wooden stems, it's actualy a shrub. I think a mature potentilla shrub in a 30 cm shallow aquarium has some intruiging potential displaying it's wooden stems submersed, followed with it's emersed foilage. Last year, i found that the <Calla palustris - Bog Arum> also has a darn nice <atractive looking submersed horizontaly growing rhizome> the thing is it didn't realy do good overwintering indoors, it seems this plant 1 is not an evergreen and needs a resting periode or 2 it needs a ton of light to survive an indoor tank. I yet do not know what it is, but ti didn't do very wel indoors. Next experiment in this mission will be this Marsh cinquefoil and see how this will survive indoor conditions in an aquarium. But now i'm running way ahead, the summer is starting and only next winter will reveal that outcome.
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