Hi guys,
I thought I'd post on how my fluval edge has evolved over the past few months, from the original stock halogens, to MR16 LEDs to it's current CFL full MOD. I'll post guides to these soon.
Here's my Edge's first incarnation on it's IKEA pretty stand!
These were taken three months ago after I transferred some stock from my old tank to this one - I hadn't really thought of an aquascape - I just used what I had available to me on the day!
Edge after the MR16 LED upgrade:
I had a bit of a problem last about a month and a half ago and my whole system crashed - I lost everything apart from a my peppered cory and a few guppies.
I decided that this was a good time to give the tank an overhaul, sort out my boring aquascape and change the lighting to CFLs. I decided to go for black gravel, three nice pieces of stone and some slate to be covered with java moss. There's a slight incline towards the back, left, to give the bed some structure. I also have two anubias, one growing in the back left corner and one growing in the front right.
Here's what we have now:
As you can see, the lighting is much better with the CFLs. I did try some coralife colormax bulbs which I got from the states but I popped them in this morning. The colour was really good, bringing out the reds of my cherry shrimp and endler's guppies but both blew - i didn't bother with a transformer to run them at the US 110v and so they burnt out really quickly with a horrible cracking sound!
With regards to stocking, we currently have 2x male endler's guppies, 2x female endler's guppies, 1 x peppered cory, 1x bublebee goby (Brachygobius xanthozona), 2 cherry shrimp and one amano shrimp.
I'm looking forward to your comments!
I thought I'd post on how my fluval edge has evolved over the past few months, from the original stock halogens, to MR16 LEDs to it's current CFL full MOD. I'll post guides to these soon.
Here's my Edge's first incarnation on it's IKEA pretty stand!
These were taken three months ago after I transferred some stock from my old tank to this one - I hadn't really thought of an aquascape - I just used what I had available to me on the day!
Edge after the MR16 LED upgrade:
I had a bit of a problem last about a month and a half ago and my whole system crashed - I lost everything apart from a my peppered cory and a few guppies.
I decided that this was a good time to give the tank an overhaul, sort out my boring aquascape and change the lighting to CFLs. I decided to go for black gravel, three nice pieces of stone and some slate to be covered with java moss. There's a slight incline towards the back, left, to give the bed some structure. I also have two anubias, one growing in the back left corner and one growing in the front right.
Here's what we have now:
As you can see, the lighting is much better with the CFLs. I did try some coralife colormax bulbs which I got from the states but I popped them in this morning. The colour was really good, bringing out the reds of my cherry shrimp and endler's guppies but both blew - i didn't bother with a transformer to run them at the US 110v and so they burnt out really quickly with a horrible cracking sound!
With regards to stocking, we currently have 2x male endler's guppies, 2x female endler's guppies, 1 x peppered cory, 1x bublebee goby (Brachygobius xanthozona), 2 cherry shrimp and one amano shrimp.
I'm looking forward to your comments!
