Ridgeway
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Decided to take a break from reef aquaculture for a while, many reasons and some I’ll try to address and overcome if i take the plunge into planted🤔
Here’s a few things that I’ve been thinking of as objectives if i could achieve with a planted aquarium system:
Then of course they’ll be system objectives like livestock, plants and overall system type🤔 many many things to be considered but first i need to decide if this is the right way to go🤷♂️
Anyway will start doing my homework, the planted aquarium hobby has move on a lot since i had my last set up.
Here’s a few things that I’ve been thinking of as objectives if i could achieve with a planted aquarium system:
- Use existing aquarium (kind of the baseline really)
- Use mainly existing equipment
- Lights would be a big part due to cost so I’ll need to dig into the reef spec LED lighting and see if i can make a decent lighting pattern that would be plant suitable
- All livestock would be tank raised/cultured ie nothing wild caught
- Electrical consumption down to a minimum and should be able to run it from solar
- Noise level much less that previous set up (a bit vague i know) but having emptied the tank recently and hearing the difference vs the full reef set up is very nice
- Evaporation !!! will need to run the system closed top and therefore need to understand gas exchange impact and also lighting impact (will need some investigation)
- Much lower maintenance than a full blown reef set up (just have less time these days)
- Stability ! can’t have a system that runs on a knife edge (many high end reef tanks do) So looking to set this up with stability in mind
- I’m sure I’ll think of more objectives 😂
Then of course they’ll be system objectives like livestock, plants and overall system type🤔 many many things to be considered but first i need to decide if this is the right way to go🤷♂️
Anyway will start doing my homework, the planted aquarium hobby has move on a lot since i had my last set up.