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just got the email last night that marine depot has them in stock again. ordered first thing this morning.

 

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Well the wife wasn't too stoked to see the massive box in our breezeway but its here! Shell get over it...till it invades the bedroom. She's already threatened to go trade her CRV for a pilot har har. It's our running joke I guess...

Aquasoil coming Monday followed by an order of plants, driftwood and the obligatory dry start will commence. Just need to figure out what I want to do other than the general starting point of HC and some sort of moss. I have a bunch of seiryu stone already and an eheim canister filter as well. May try to get adventurous and make acrylic lily pipes or just order some eBay glass ones. A small powerhead may be needed too

 

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Went out trolling through many local stores and ended up with these two pieces of wood for my hardscape. Have some seiryu going in around these as well

 

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Thanks! I started a journal for the tank so hopefully I can get a few pointers and keep motivated. It'll be a DSM start so typical slow progress till the flood once the scape is complete. That'll give plenty of time to find a good set of fish and a breeder to source them through too as well as pulling the trigger on a CO2 setup

 

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Very nice! The scape is very full and balanced. It's always cool to know how people are overcoming the long tank though. What are you doing for flow, filtration and lighting? I see the coralife strip. Are those custom risers for it? I have a strip like that ill be using on mine and would rather not suspend it. You using co2?

 

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10 liters would be enough to do anything you wanted. I feel like 9 liters is kind of tight bit generally worKing its enough.

 

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I have seen people add powder ferts under substrate or root tabs but hopefully it's not completely necesary. If so, I need to get with the program

 

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what's everyone doing for heaters here? I don't need too much as the building stays around 75+ year-round, but something to help when it's colder would be nice and i'd like to avoid an in-line heater.

basically what i'm asking is, are there any really short but solid heaters? i love the open look of everything here and would hate to have some massive heater cluttering up things

i also wouldn't be opposed to a canister filter/heater combo, but I havent seen anything under 300 haha

 

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I'm just keeping it at work so I'm trying to avoid as many things that leak. Might just get a small fully submersible one and tuck it on the far side

 

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Trying to decide between a fluval 106 and 206. Not sure if I really need the extra flow o the 206. 2 media baskets should be plenty but the 106 is rated for 25 gallons. Not sure how that'd fare in the 12 long. Ill be using a set of lily pipes and running the flow longways

 

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My dry start isn't going incredibly well. Going snag another couple portions of plants and flood next weekend and kick on the CO2 hopefully that plus some ferts will help perk things up

 

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My problem mostly was that I couldn't keep things sealed so it wasn't as humid as it should have been probably and the slope wasnt too happy in terms of plant growth. Had a good but of die off after a good start. Oh well. Impatience got the best of me. Flooded and whatnot. Ill probably order some more staurogyne repens and Anubias nana petite to fill things out up top.

 

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Just browsed through your journal. Can tell this will turn out real nice. Excellent piece of wood you have. Too bad this didn't last longer with the HC (DSM). It will spread eventually

Thanks! I plan on picking up some more glosso and staurogyne repens since mine didn't last haha. No wildlife till spring and dosing ferts and running co2 now. The aquatek pb regulator is awesome. Finally got it dialed in (patience was crucial) and its been cool at 1-2 bps

 

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Looking for the tiniest power head available. Anyone have any recommendations?

 

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They are generally out of stock often I notice, usually after a big sale? If I remembered correctly, once in awhile they are sold for like $50 or $60 shipped?

I think green leaf aquariums was having a clearance on their tanks which included a 12 long. No more though. Marineland depot has a subscription feature that I used which is really accurate in terms of notifying you of the availability when it comes back in stock.

 

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Just watched the video mayphly hahahaha that's great!!

 

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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

 

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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!

 

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Yeah I'm not going to lie the mounting points aren't perfect (intake sits loooow) but I had an extra suction cup and clip that I used to make it work

 

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Yeah I've had to develop a dual-tong approach and hold the patch down with one set while I pull with the other. So far so good though