Hello,
Following a small break of 6months i've restart my passion for this very nice hobby and decided to start a new tank of 60Lt (~14gal), with dimension of 40x40x40cm.
This is an home made aquarium and was inspired by ADA 45-C, having the cube shape, also beeing rimless (if at 60L you need rims
)
Technical details :
*As substrate i'm using Aquatic Nature Fertisoil mixed with some Aquatic Nature shrimp soil.
*Filtration is provided by an JBL e701, on which i have switch one compartiment of bioballs with matrix&zeolith.
*The CO2 is provided by a pressurized system with an addition of 1bps non-stop.
*The light is DIY and is an led system, with 6xCree XPG cool white (6500k)+2xCree XPE red normal + 2xCree XT-E royal blue and is drived by an 700mA source (not dimable-subject to upgrade asap). The LED will benefit from 60 degree lens that are expected to arrive in 2 weeks (hopefully).
*Light is on from 14:00-20:30 non stop and non sunrise-sunset scheme [i dont have necessary tools, yet]. till 14:00 some natural light is flooding somehow the tank, but not direct sun.
*Ferts is with Tropica (both fertilisers from them), but I want to change to EI with my chemicals since provide more advantage versus tropica (money and let's say performance, since with tropica I cannot afford to use EI)
The scape will be composed the following plants:
-HC Cuba in foreground
-eleocharis parvula around the stones
-blyxa japonica outside the stones
-staurogyne mixed with alternanthera reineckii mini in the right part of the tank
-ammania bonsai, right middle-back of the tank
-background will be provided by didiplis diandra
if you are kind to share your opinion with me about the bellows, i will be greathfull:
-what do you think about the light spectrum? should be OK, how about for the light quantity provided by these leds, you think is enough to grow HC & others?
currently i dont have PAR reader, but one fried will come to messure the light volume. If i have 70-100 umoles/m2 at soil should be OK ?
-can you tell me, some stores from Europe, preferably NL or GE, from where i can buy dry ferts?
-if I use this calculator, should be safe to doze the EI ? [http://www.thenutrientcompany.com/aquarium/calculators/]
-what you think is the best method to dose : dry or solution ?
some pictures with my tank (with mention that some plants you will see will be removed, being here for the start-up period).
and now, for the bellow pictures, what do you think, this is dead GSA or is this another algee ?
i'm not very pleased with parvula, since all i've planted died died and only few new hairs apperead.
for HC you can see that some very tini threads is getting out of the main bush, did anyone seen this before ?
I want to mention that tank is 2 weeks old
Thank you,
Florin
Following a small break of 6months i've restart my passion for this very nice hobby and decided to start a new tank of 60Lt (~14gal), with dimension of 40x40x40cm.
This is an home made aquarium and was inspired by ADA 45-C, having the cube shape, also beeing rimless (if at 60L you need rims
)Technical details :
*As substrate i'm using Aquatic Nature Fertisoil mixed with some Aquatic Nature shrimp soil.
*Filtration is provided by an JBL e701, on which i have switch one compartiment of bioballs with matrix&zeolith.
*The CO2 is provided by a pressurized system with an addition of 1bps non-stop.
*The light is DIY and is an led system, with 6xCree XPG cool white (6500k)+2xCree XPE red normal + 2xCree XT-E royal blue and is drived by an 700mA source (not dimable-subject to upgrade asap). The LED will benefit from 60 degree lens that are expected to arrive in 2 weeks (hopefully).
*Light is on from 14:00-20:30 non stop and non sunrise-sunset scheme
[i dont have necessary tools, yet]. till 14:00 some natural light is flooding somehow the tank, but not direct sun.*Ferts is with Tropica (both fertilisers from them), but I want to change to EI with my chemicals since provide more advantage versus tropica (money and let's say performance, since with tropica I cannot afford to use EI)
The scape will be composed the following plants:
-HC Cuba in foreground
-eleocharis parvula around the stones
-blyxa japonica outside the stones
-staurogyne mixed with alternanthera reineckii mini in the right part of the tank
-ammania bonsai, right middle-back of the tank
-background will be provided by didiplis diandra
if you are kind to share your opinion with me about the bellows, i will be greathfull:
-what do you think about the light spectrum? should be OK, how about for the light quantity provided by these leds, you think is enough to grow HC & others?
currently i dont have PAR reader, but one fried will come to messure the light volume. If i have 70-100 umoles/m2 at soil should be OK ?
-can you tell me, some stores from Europe, preferably NL or GE, from where i can buy dry ferts?
-if I use this calculator, should be safe to doze the EI ? [http://www.thenutrientcompany.com/aquarium/calculators/]
-what you think is the best method to dose : dry or solution ?
some pictures with my tank (with mention that some plants you will see will be removed, being here for the start-up period).
and now, for the bellow pictures, what do you think, this is dead GSA or is this another algee ?
i'm not very pleased with parvula, since all i've planted died died and only few new hairs apperead.
for HC you can see that some very tini threads is getting out of the main bush, did anyone seen this before ?
I want to mention that tank is 2 weeks old
Thank you,
Florin
