Please help ,tank glass

[Alantpcb]

To all SHIFU, please help to see why my front crystal glass looks so green , is this real crystal glass ?IMG_4035.JPGIMG_4037.JPG Thank You.

[fireblade]

this looks like normal glass lay...
how much did you pay for it? where did you buy it?

normally crystal glass don't have this green tint...

[Urban Aquaria]

Put the tank in an area with daylight or bright white light, then you should be able to see its true glass color and clarity.

For reference, you can check out a thread i posted a while back comparing the 2 types of tank glass side-by-side:

http://www.aquaticquotient.com/forum...mal-Glass-Tank

Hope that helps.

[Alantpcb]

Thanks to all SHIFU. The shop owner just came to my house last night and he also confirmed and verified that the front panel is LOW IRON HIGH CLARITY GLASS .


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[Urban Aquaria]

So only the front glass is crystal glass? The other sides are all normal glass?

In that case, it probably explains why the front panel edges look abit greenish too, because the green tint from the other normal glass sides shine through into the otherwise clear crystal glass. Its color tint can be influenced by the other colors around it.

[Alantpcb]

He also told me that CRYSTAL GLASS got 3 types of colour. green,blue and white. Is it true.


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[BFG]

So the question now is whether you specify wanting a low iron high clarity tank or just part of the tank using only low iron high clarity glass pane ?

How much did you paid for it ?

What is the tank size ?

[Alantpcb]

I requested to make a tank size of 90x40x40cm.10 mm thick with a small partition at right corner(30x10cm).normal glass at$270 and he recomment to have a crystal glass front panel for better viewing with a top up $100. so i agree. Its only that i thought crystal glass only have white tinted as i"m new to this hobby and this is my first big tank.


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[DreamerX5521]

It looks like crystal glass to me. Like bro UA said, the green tint is likely come frm the normal glass.
I have one ada crystal glass tank and it has some green tint too, though not the deep green tint found on the normal glass. Also, i have another crystal glass tank bought frm GC, and it more towards bluish color. So, crystal glass do have different 'color', most likely due to the glass content during manufacturing process.

[Alantpcb]

Thanks to you all guys.In this case i can feel more asure now. I just hope that i am getting what i had paid for.Going to start my first big tank,worried that it will end up like my small tank all grown with green hair algae.Please teach me how to measure the ferterlizers in the tank so that over dosing can be prevented. Now using SEACHEM products. flourish,iron and potassium.


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[Alantpcb]

My First Big Tank(90x40x40)IMG_4084.JPG


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[Alantpcb]

Is it good to use ro/di water ? Please give me some advice.


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[DreamerX5521]

Ro/do water is mostly for keeping crystal red shrimp, as the water should have close to zero mineral content. Then one could adjust mineral content by topping up minerals to reach the desire level.
But if you not going to keep crs, then most likely no need to use ro/do water, as many of the fishes and some shrimp species (like yamato shrimp and cherry shrimp) are more hardy that can still live in the normal tap water (of course dechlorinated).

[Alantpcb]

At lease now i can have more cash for other scaping tools.Thanks.


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[Alantpcb]

Just bought some rocks, hope that they do not affect gh and ph much.IMG_4118.JPG


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[Urban Aquaria]

Just bought some rocks, hope that they do not affect gh and ph much.IMG_4118.JPG

You can actually just test it out. Put the rocks in a bucket of water, then test the pH, GH and TDS.... let them soak for a few days to a week, then test the bucket water parameters again, see if there are any noticeable differences.

In this way, you can know beforehand whether the rocks will alter your tank's water parameters, so you can manage it. Better than only finding out what happens a few weeks later after everything is setup.

[Alantpcb]

Tommorrow will have lots of SCRUBBING to do


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[Alantpcb]

Thinking of buying lily pipe,shock of the price.Is it really worth buying? I mean does it really make a huge difference in the output .


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[Urban Aquaria]

Thinking of buying lily pipe,shock of the price.Is it really worth buying? I mean does it really make a huge difference in the output.

There is actually a wide range of prices for lily pipes... can be as low as $30+ for a set (if order from online) up to $400+ for a set of the original ADA lily pipes. There are lots of different prices for different brands with various grades of workmanship and quality in-between.

The standard lily pipe outflow shape is designed to generate a wider spread-out flow pattern, and for most people it's mainly the transparent glass look that they are going for. It's aesthetically much nicer than the stock green or black plastic pipes that are packaged with most canister filters.

If you are into aquascaping, i guess the last thing you'd want to see is green pipes in the tank distracting from the nice plant layout.

Alternatively, you could also buy the Eheim plastic lily pipe shape output add-on kit (aka Eheim flow pipe kit) which can be attached to the stock plastic pipes too, but you'll still see the green pipes.

So whether it's worth buying glass lily pipes will depend mainly on how much you value the aesthetics of your in-tank filter equipment.

[Alantpcb]

Very good advice, thank you very much. Hope to get more help from you as i am currently preparing my first big tank.


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