dazzer1975
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- 29 Aug 2011
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Returning to the hobby after a few years hiatus and it seems some of my previous understandings regarding growing plants have shifted somewhat.
I have a juwel vision 180 (appx 40gallons) and when it was previously set up I was running an arcadia t5 luminaire with 4 x 39watt tubes giving me an appx wpg of 4. In conjunction with this I was running EI and injecting pressurised co2, substrate was ada amazonia with power sand underneath.
Now, I am eager to get set up again but I don't want to be driving the tank as hard with the high level of maintenance it required (auto top off's and dosing machines etc are not an option), but, I only have the use of the arcadia luminaire and have recently acquired a new eheim pro3e 2078 to provide the filtration and flow required in addition to some colombo flora base substrate... so despite my concerns, it seems I am drifting toward the high tech high maintenance approach.
I am also looking into pressurised co2 systems again
The trouble is, I would ideally like a carpet of hc (although never had much success with it in the past) pogostemon helferi and perhaps a bit of dwarf hair grass to break it up a bit. These species I believe require this high light pressurised co2 approach so what am I to do?
I haven’t devised any kind of plan or intended set up yet, only that I have the equipment I have and don’t really want to replace.
As it stands, the set up will be the vision 180, eheim 2078, t5 lighting and perhaps pressursed co2 and maybe a couple of small power heads to increase flow/eliminate dead spots etc.
Ideally I am looking for a long term scape rather than something that needs constant fettling, is this compatible with high lighting and pressurized co2?
I would like to move away from EI so may explore some other options and see whats what.
I plan on housing a couple of bristle noses, plenty of shrimp and a shoal or two of something like tetras and rasboras.
Basically, I think I am suffering from a paralysis of not knowing which way to go and would like your inputs on how you would approach a project of this nature and what you would change (re lighting?)
Any thoughts and suggestions would be gratefully received.
Cheers guys.
I have a juwel vision 180 (appx 40gallons) and when it was previously set up I was running an arcadia t5 luminaire with 4 x 39watt tubes giving me an appx wpg of 4. In conjunction with this I was running EI and injecting pressurised co2, substrate was ada amazonia with power sand underneath.
Now, I am eager to get set up again but I don't want to be driving the tank as hard with the high level of maintenance it required (auto top off's and dosing machines etc are not an option), but, I only have the use of the arcadia luminaire and have recently acquired a new eheim pro3e 2078 to provide the filtration and flow required in addition to some colombo flora base substrate... so despite my concerns, it seems I am drifting toward the high tech high maintenance approach.
I am also looking into pressurised co2 systems again
The trouble is, I would ideally like a carpet of hc (although never had much success with it in the past) pogostemon helferi and perhaps a bit of dwarf hair grass to break it up a bit. These species I believe require this high light pressurised co2 approach so what am I to do?
I haven’t devised any kind of plan or intended set up yet, only that I have the equipment I have and don’t really want to replace.
As it stands, the set up will be the vision 180, eheim 2078, t5 lighting and perhaps pressursed co2 and maybe a couple of small power heads to increase flow/eliminate dead spots etc.
Ideally I am looking for a long term scape rather than something that needs constant fettling, is this compatible with high lighting and pressurized co2?
I would like to move away from EI so may explore some other options and see whats what.
I plan on housing a couple of bristle noses, plenty of shrimp and a shoal or two of something like tetras and rasboras.
Basically, I think I am suffering from a paralysis of not knowing which way to go and would like your inputs on how you would approach a project of this nature and what you would change (re lighting?)
Any thoughts and suggestions would be gratefully received.
Cheers guys.