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Originally Posted by milesm
one final request, if i may. could you provide lighting data for the three tanks. that is, how are your bulbs oriented/kind of reflector, types of bulbs, wattage, k, distance from light to bottom of tank, size of tank. i think it would be instructive to look at. thanks.
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Yes, I can do this once I'm back in town... currently traveling.
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Originally Posted by skratikans
wow, this truly gives a whole new meaning to a non co2 injected tank, So I have to ask, were all three tank pics non co2? Amazing..
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I was wondering when someone was going to ask that... The top and bottom tank were run as non-co2, the middle tank was co2 injected (as is evident from the drop checker hanging on the side of the tank <
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The bottom tank has a CO2 system, but I only used it in the beginning of that particular setup. I found that it was growing way too fast. I couldn't keep up with the plant trimming. So, I slowed the growth rate down... Since it has a soil substrate, I stopped the co2 and reduced the light from 120 umols/m2/s down to 60 umols/m2/s using a photographic neutral density filter on a piece of glass directly below the lights. That's another way you can control your lighting if removing a bulb is not an option or if you can't change the distance.
The reason I showed all three tanks together was that I wanted to illustrate that a non-co2 tank doesn't have to be the ubiquitous anubias/crypt/javafern style tank. I prefer brighter, sparkling tanks with verdant growth ;-)
My successes are modest, and I'm not claiming to be a master of this. But I hope to attract others with the same mind set and share our experiences and methods.
Cheers!