Nice to see you back posting again Eric. Who made the tank for you? I'd like to set up some additional small tanks but the traditional dimensions are boring.
Custom acrylic ~ 4.4 gallons
Tore down the altum tank and sold it awhile back. Was gonna move but that never happened, so I decided to set up a nano tank in the mean time.
Technicals:
24x6.5x6.5" custom acrylic tank (rimless)
2x24W Helios T5 HO (6,700k & 10,000k bulbs)
ADA co2 system 74 with nano diffuser
ADA Africana soil
Visitherm 50W heater
Tom's mini canister filter
Plants:
Anubias nana petite
Narrow leaf windelov (courtesy of GWAPA)
Fissidens fontanus (just barely hanging in there)
Ludwigia brevipes
Rotala rotundifolia
Rotala sp. 'foreground'
Crypt. sp. 'green gecko'
Crypt. parva
Crypt. petchii
HC
This is what it looked like when I started a few months ago (Sept.). Old lighting setup and filtration.
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This is what it looks like as of yesterday.
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Technicals:
24x6.5x6.5" custom acrylic tank (rimless)
2x24W Helios T5 HO (6,700k & 10,000k bulbs)
ADA co2 system 74 with nano diffuser
ADA Africana soil
Visitherm 50W heater
Tom's mini canister filter
Plants:
Anubias nana petite
Narrow leaf windelov (courtesy of GWAPA)
Fissidens fontanus (just barely hanging in there)
Ludwigia brevipes
Rotala rotundifolia
Rotala sp. 'foreground'
Crypt. sp. 'green gecko'
Crypt. parva
Crypt. petchii
HC
This is what it looked like when I started a few months ago (Sept.). Old lighting setup and filtration.
This is what it looks like as of yesterday.
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Moved some stuff around and added some Tonina sp. 'Belem.
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Thanks.
I like the Helios quite a bit. I've just been using them to overdrive some NO T5 bulbs and they're holding up well. The greatest part is that there's very little heat. The 2x9W PCs that I was running before created way more heat and doesn't produce as much light. The downside to the setup is the legs it comes with. They could have used another mechanism to attach them to the fixture (they just snap on). I stopped using them and just have the fixture sit on top of the tank nowadays.
I like the Helios quite a bit. I've just been using them to overdrive some NO T5 bulbs and they're holding up well. The greatest part is that there's very little heat. The 2x9W PCs that I was running before created way more heat and doesn't produce as much light. The downside to the setup is the legs it comes with. They could have used another mechanism to attach them to the fixture (they just snap on). I stopped using them and just have the fixture sit on top of the tank nowadays.
Thanks.
Thanks.
I've just been keeping it simple and dosing liquid ferts (Flourish line) that I had around.
I've just been keeping it simple and dosing liquid ferts (Flourish line) that I had around.
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