Phlipper
Thu May 18, 2006, 11:33 AM
My main tank of some 500 litres plus, it has a doubled curved front and is about 80 cm deep. This is in the first stages of being a Discus tank, atm it has 6 small Discus, 2 Red Turks, 2 Blue Diamonds and 2 Marlboro Reds. This tank has been running for 6 months now so the plants have established themselves.
It has a simple DIY yeast Co2 unit, the gas being fed into a home made reactor with a small 200lph pump attatched to it, it's plugged into a timer unit so the pump turns off with the lights and the exces Co2 bubbles into oblivian at night when the plants dont utilise it. The plants are doing great, pruning them weekly, just goes to show you dont have to spend big bucks to get results :P
Light set up is 3 fluros, 1 x triphosphor, 1 x aqua glow, 1 x marine glow., the lights are on for 11 hours per day with no algae problems at all.
Plants are a mixture, and I cant remember the names of them all.but there are narrow leaf Java Ferns, standard Java Ferns, Elodea, Swords, Anubias, Rotala Walachii, Wisteria, Ambulia, Vallis etc etc etc
It has a simple DIY yeast Co2 unit, the gas being fed into a home made reactor with a small 200lph pump attatched to it, it's plugged into a timer unit so the pump turns off with the lights and the exces Co2 bubbles into oblivian at night when the plants dont utilise it. The plants are doing great, pruning them weekly, just goes to show you dont have to spend big bucks to get results :P
Light set up is 3 fluros, 1 x triphosphor, 1 x aqua glow, 1 x marine glow., the lights are on for 11 hours per day with no algae problems at all.
Plants are a mixture, and I cant remember the names of them all.but there are narrow leaf Java Ferns, standard Java Ferns, Elodea, Swords, Anubias, Rotala Walachii, Wisteria, Ambulia, Vallis etc etc etc