330L Tank Journal

[Xraymark]

LEDs are going to start taking off everywhere I think. ;-)

Nice to see you back eagle. I think once tanks are produced with LEDs and not T5s as standard then we know the cost has come down.

On reef setups people are more willing to pay the extra cost as a modification for coral growth.

 

[eaglesaquarium]

I've been back for a while. Setting up a South American "biotype" for my workplace. I got my hands on a 110 US Gallon tank. ;-) Getting a few scaping ideas from here. I like this journal.


We went with a 4 foot, 4 bulb industrial light fixture. 128Watts, with all bulbs... pictures coming eventually. ;-)

 

[Zikofski]

cool cheers guys yes if you calculate the cost for T5 and LED's over the long run LED's are cheaper anyway, you think for a planted tank you ideally need to change the tubes every year that's like £20 each tube each year that's £400 over 20 years which these LED's are supposed to last and cost me less than half of that

 

[eaglesaquarium]

cool cheers guys yes if you calculate the cost for T5 and LED's over the long run LED's are cheaper anyway, you think for a planted tank you ideally need to change the tubes every year that's like £20 each tube each year that's £400 over 20 years which these LED's are supposed to last

and cost me less than half of that

Not to mention the difference in the cost of running them... the LEDs use a fraction of the energy of the fluorescents.

 

[Questions?]

those lights are amazing

 

[Zikofski]

thnx all for the comments

i have had major problems this week haha, my filter was playing up, so i had no filter or co2 for a couple of days, and i also my co2 FE bottle ran out some time during the week, i think i did something to the regulator to make it come loose and there for leak only lasted me 2 months 2kg bottle at around 2bps i thought it would last longer, i have since ordered 2 more FE at £22 each not to bad in my eyes considering JBL want £50 to £70 for a 500g bottle

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they will come sometime this week and i shall add them to the system next friday, i have in the mean time stopped adding ferts and may turn my lights off all week to prevent algae but w8ing on advice from a few MOd's on this site i am still getting algae and hopefully they wont take hold

 

[Questions?]

any casualties?

 

[Zikofski]

Nope it was a leak into the main room not into the tank luckily but the only casualties will be the plants with algae, Steve has recommended me to reduce theists down to two hous hopefully that will reduce the algae growth unroll next weekend but mike a DIY setup is to confusing for me and to expensive in my eyes a week won't hurt that much right?

 

[Questions?]

i don't think it would hurt to much either. i am glad there were no casualties other then algea on your plants

 

[Zikofski]

okay i have my Co2 back

had it running all day at 2bps BUT my drop checkers are still blue, il change the solution in them tomorrow see if this helps

on the plus side i was a bad boy today and bought 1 more Fish a Tiny Red tail shark love the little guy, and i bought a shed load of my plants, 9 bunches from P@H and 3 Pots, but i am sure one of my Bunches is not an aquatic altho i did get 3 bunches free

so no loss there

i got another Crypt and two more of those Amazon Sword rose that i killed off and some more twisted vellas hopefully these ones will survive, and some kind of Fuzzy plant very common no idea what it is

haha il put a post in the Planted ID section to find out on the two plants i don't know what they are,

on a sad note i have lost a clown loach no idea where he went was a very big loach so no idea how or where he could hide and no he's not in the cave

, i have also lost i think two green tiger barbs, one jumped out of the tank and i found all dried up today looked like he had been there for days, and the other don't know,

hard to count all my fish when they hide n keep swimming haha,

well despite not having co2 for a week, my plants continued to grow and i pretty much have a forrest on the left hand side now looks immense, some plants are now very close to reaching the top, so hope you all enjoy

the pictures this tank have come on really well and i am so happy at how it has progressed, also despite the grass getting a lot of algae there is also new growth and some spread, most of the new spread keep getting dug up but hopefully it will grow strong soon

Okay these are the plants i have no idea what they are

This is my new Crypt
i have broken this one pot into 4 to 5 different plants

This is my new amazon Swords

i kept all the leafs and did not touch the rood either

this time hopefully they will melt but regrow

Now this is the plant i think is not an Aquatic plant but maybe not sure looks to waxy to be aquatic in my eyes but it was submerged at P@H but dose look like its dying or rotting due to water

MOre Tank pictures to follow uploading is being slow tonight sorry

 

[Ps3Steveo]

Yeah its non aquatic mate, looking forward to the pics tho.

 

[Zikofski]

ok and the rest of the pics

i also been changing the rock layouts in the middle to help with flow may take some out tbh

 

[Questions?]

looks great

 

[BeccaAmes]

I loved reading this thread and seeing how it changed and improved! You've done a lovely job

 

[Zikofski]

i think there has to be two words that best describe my tank at the moment, GRRRRR and BOOOM

both algae and my plants are making me go GRRRR and are booming in my tank, 
 
since adding Cabomba i think its spelt is the quickest growing plant i have ever seen from some websites it gets to between 1 and 2 foot long, and in the 2 weeks since adding it, i would say it is pretty much between those now, i have since trimmed and cut it up and propagated it around the tank along with my Hygrophila Guanensis i cut one of my plants half way down, just below some roots that where growing randomly, and managed to make 9 extra plants out of that, i have planted around the back mostly on the left so spreading the plants to fill more tank,
 
i also trimmed my DHG to just above the sand, as it was hit by the algae quite bad so hopefully new growth will help
 
my vallis are again not doing to good

strange has anyone ever grown them in co2 conditions?
 
my cave is covered in algae, looks kinda cool tbh makes it look a bit rustic and more natural, but i don't like algae

 
so i thought i shall do a little time scale of what has happened so far

 
06-01-13

 
18-01-13

 
02-02-13

 
19-02-13

 
20-02-13

full tank as it looks now