This is my 4th year with a planted tank and my 3rd rescape of my 60p..... but first tank journal.
I’m currently still in the setup phase of v3. Broke down v2 back in November. Everything (6 ember tetras and a dozen shrimp) is in a 5gal cube, and doing well.... I just work slow these days. Not a lot of free time, but I’m steadily making progress.
This time around, I’m updating a lot of other things.
1) new diy ADA style stand
2) some new equipment
3) new RO system, attached to an entire plumbing system that will make for really easy water changes.
First, the stand.... which I’ve posted before, but I want it in my tank journal. From the day I finished it
Here is it in place, with equipment and light
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Next I started working on my plumbing set up. The basic idea is that I’ll have a flexible tube coming up through the floor, behind the aquarium. This tube will be used to both drain water from the tank to the sump crock, and pump water from my RO system back up into the tank. My RO system will hang on the wall and fill a 44 gallon trash can. A pond pump will be submersed in there and plugged into an outlet with a remote switch.
I’ve run about 75’ worth of pex, only about 9-10ft of elevation though. Here is the progress. There are valves so I can control where the flow goes. The trash can isn’t pictured.... but I’ll update when it gets finished.
Here is where it’ll come through the floor
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I’m currently still in the setup phase of v3. Broke down v2 back in November. Everything (6 ember tetras and a dozen shrimp) is in a 5gal cube, and doing well.... I just work slow these days. Not a lot of free time, but I’m steadily making progress.
This time around, I’m updating a lot of other things.
1) new diy ADA style stand
2) some new equipment
3) new RO system, attached to an entire plumbing system that will make for really easy water changes.
First, the stand.... which I’ve posted before, but I want it in my tank journal. From the day I finished it


Here is it in place, with equipment and light

I


Next I started working on my plumbing set up. The basic idea is that I’ll have a flexible tube coming up through the floor, behind the aquarium. This tube will be used to both drain water from the tank to the sump crock, and pump water from my RO system back up into the tank. My RO system will hang on the wall and fill a 44 gallon trash can. A pond pump will be submersed in there and plugged into an outlet with a remote switch.
I’ve run about 75’ worth of pex, only about 9-10ft of elevation though. Here is the progress. There are valves so I can control where the flow goes. The trash can isn’t pictured.... but I’ll update when it gets finished.


Here is where it’ll come through the floor

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