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Low Tech Tank Show-and-Tell (low tech can be lush, too! =)

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Been a while since we had a thread like this, so I thought I'd start another, since this is the way I like to share and learn from other people. :smile:

The idea in this thread is to post a picture of your low tech tank(s), explain the setup (equipment, lighting, substrate, ferts, etc) and briefly explain a few things you've learned that do or don't work with your setup.
 
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This is my very low tech almost zero maintenance set up.
260 litres
No water changes just top ups every other day
Fluval 306 on half flow
Occasional bit of ferts if ever see deficiencies in the rip plants.
Dirt substrate with some Ada Amazonia and columbo florabase as a cap



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My 75 gal low tech

Equipment: Marineland 350 power filter
100w Marineland heater
2 T8 fluorescent lights
Tetra Whisper air pump

Flora: Klein Bar sword (3)
Wisteria
Java moss
Christmas moss
Ricca (floating) :icon_sad:
other random plants that i dont remember/know the names of

Fauna: 1 Zebra Angel
1 Fire Belly Newt
1 Whiptail Pleco
1 common Pleco
1 Borneo Pleco
1 Male Guppy
1 Iridescent Shark
1 Black Kuhli Loach
2 Rams Horn Snails
3 Kuhli Loaches
3 Cherry Barbs
3 Serpaes Tetras
3 Orange Von Rio Tetra
3 Painted Glass Tetra
3 Wood Shrimp
3 Female Guppies
4 Neon Tetra
4 Rummy Nose Tetra
4 Long Fin Zebra Danios
6 Blood Fin Tetra
12 Ghost Shrimp
 

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love the diagonal crossing of the wood and the larger rocks. I love to see smooth rock in tanks, makes me think of river beds.
 
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1g bowl tons of different plants from swords and vals to hc and glosso.



Crappy phone picture and quite a bit has changed

Wisteria
AmbuliaHs
Rotala indica
Hc
Glosso
Lugwigia repens
And unknown stem that resembles mini green rotala
Needle leaf java fern

15g 2 15w glo clfs and led lightstrip dosed with excell.
 
#786 ·
Here's my 55g. Set up with a subcurrent filter (that works about half of the time), and sponge filter, and 2 HO T5 bulbs with individual reflectors built into the hood. I don't usually dose anything, but occasionally use the aquavitro products and no CO2. I think I'm removing the angels today so I can move back towards little fish. I have some hemirhamphodon tengah coming into tomorrow. Sorry for the bad phone pic

 
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