I've been eying the 1gl pickle jars for a while now, but the closest I've come yet is half filled 5gl buckets for plant prorogation and temporary fish holding. Most I do is add an air stone for circulation. If you have CO2 you don't want to gas straight out, check out the Tunze Mini 5024.04 powerhead.
Idea for a light for the pickle tank, LOL
Sorry, it just sounds funny.
I am thinking about taking a small LED flash light and drilling a hole in the pickle jars lid and mounting it in the lid. Then take an old cell phone plug or one with the right voltage and souldering it to the battery leads. The trick, will be doing it in way that looks good.
That sounds cool, but I don't think that it will be enough light. You would probably want at least a one watt led to light the tank, depending on how tall it is.
Sounds good.
Probably need a few LEDs and widely spaced apart. The light band tends to be quite narrow with LEDs and if it's on the lid, they'll be pretty close to the substrate.
I've got ten individual LEDs on what amounts to a rice bowl-sized tank and it is barely adequate.
I'm using a jar and natural sunlight to grow Glosso at the moment.
The only 'filter' I have going in there is snails and water changes every week or when I remember.
It's nice and easy, and there when I want it, and healthier than it ever was in my tanks!
Just for kicks you should hang a 75w Metal halide pendant over the pickle jar...roud:
I would laugh my ass off...
Seriously you could probably just suspend a little screw in CF fixture over it
I have a 1 gallon fish bowl growing java moss with some snails- the only light it gets is sun light- it's in a south facing window sill and it's the cat's favorite water bowl
Yeah, I have a couple of 1 gallon pickle jars. They started out as holding pens. One for the guppy fry and one for baby shrimp siphoned out of the bigger tanks during cleaning. Since then, they have become their own "environments" with moss and a bit of java fern. With the moss, no other filtration needed. I just change about 1/3 of the water each week.
i had the same sort of idea but i used a vase i found, and a pump from a cheap uv purifier that i stuffed with filter floss packed around a tube hooked to a diy co2 and a hanging 25watt cfl been going for around 3 weeks just dwarf hairgrass and 1 bacopa stem not to bad on algea the stuff on the grass was from my big tank i stole the grass to start this mini mutant!
i have a cookie jar that i use in my office with no filters. I just change the water every week. Everything is growing and my RCS just had babies. oh and i dose half a cap of excel.
Well, I thought I had an empty pickle jar, but could not find it. I am working on emptying the one I have. I put a bunch of the pickles in a baggy to bring to work, LOL While looking for the empty pickle jar I did find a sun tea jug! But the wife put her foot down and said I was not going to scrub the paint off of her tea jug and put sea-weed in it.
Well, the led lights came it. They are not very bright. I am using one in an adjustable lamp to light up my keybord at night. I am almost through eating all the pickles. LOL
I need to start taking a few pictures to document the process.
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