Hi! As I have discussed with a few fellow members with 12 gallon long tanks, it would be nice to have a thread dedicated to just 12 gallon long tanks. Its basically a thread dedicated to our small 12G long community in hopes of keeping it always exciting and drawing new interests everyday. This thread is open for ideas, questions, suggestions, etc. as a whole. Whether you already have a 12G long, looking for ideas how to design it, or simply thinking to get one, I want this thread and its members to help you in whichever way possible :biggrin:
Goals:
* Have your very own community focusing on 12G longs.
* Learn, inspire, share & support (Remember it as L.I.S.S).
* Give RAOK(s) from your very own 12G tank(s) for newcomers or to those in need when you have extra.
* Have fun! This is what it is all about
Your Support Needed!: Link to our club by adding the pre-setup link below to your signature box. Just copy & paste to your signature box.
Hey everyone, I just wanted to share a quick video clip of my 12g long tank. Thanks to all who contributed the plants for this tank. Most were from here on TPT.
HC is growing in nicely! Unfortunately so is algae. Going to try reducing the photo period. Currently it's getting 1 to 2 bps as well which seems pretty good. Here's a pic to keep the hope alive!!!!1
Sweet piece of wood! I'm rescaping mine a bit to get that sticking out of the water look going on...
Your plant biomass is small that caused a nasty algae breakout in my tank. Threw some floaters and moss there to absorb all the extra nutrients and it cleared up just fine...
Awesome looking tank, that is coming along very well. I did notice that your drop checker looks rather blue. Now this might just be how color is displayed on my screen, or it could mean that your CO2 is too low. Try increasing your bubble rate a bit, and it might also help to place you diffuser closer to your lily pipe to help distribute the co2 evenly across your tank.
Just got my 12 gal tank by Mr. Aqua. Will join club as soon as my tank is worhty. Love this thread and I agree, that vid was cool as shiznit. Very creative mind at work.
Thanks! I got the Lily pipes from aquatic magic. They seemed to have the best pricing on a lot of things and honestly after I got them I am very pleased with everything. They ship from overseas so it does take about nine business days or so at most to get to you but the pricing is beyond comparison in my opinion.
I did take some advice though and I moved the diffuser again. Originally I tried to do that but for whatever reason it didn't work out. Looks like it is actually diffusing the CO2 with the flow of the water this time. I also reduced the photoperiod to eight hours. It was previously set to about 12. Ha ha ha!
8 hours is definitely the better way to go. It took me awhile when I had my 12 to adjust the lighting and photo-period to have the HC grow properly. The thing I don't like about HC though is once it catches on with algae, its nearly impossible to get rid of it all unless you pull out that whole infected area. That's my experience at least
Thanks! I got the Lily pipes from aquatic magic. They seemed to have the best pricing on a lot of things and honestly after I got them I am very pleased with everything. They ship from overseas so it does take about nine business days or so at most to get to you but the pricing is beyond comparison in my opinion.
I did take some advice though and I moved the diffuser again. Originally I tried to do that but for whatever reason it didn't work out. Looks like it is actually diffusing the CO2 with the flow of the water this time. I also reduced the photoperiod to eight hours. It was previously set to about 12. Ha ha ha!
So, my planted tank I posted about on page 51, the one featured in Tropical Fish Hobbyist, got an algae outbreak, so I tore it down. But I've turned into a nano reef. Here are a couple pics:
Update on the tank, added a bunch of new baby tears and some anubias, plus some new hardware. Check out the journal in my signature for some more shots and info!
It does look a little weak on the other end. My experience is the more flow the less algae is likely to appear. Try a custom spraybar the length of the tank and it should greatly reduce the "no flow zone". Or, you could simply add a Zoomed 501 on the other end and it will help with flow and filtration too!
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