Can this be achieved?

[Goondoo]

On the discussion on the heat generated by MH, I think Eggy is just trying to point out that comparing to the other means of lightings available in this hobby, MH is the one that induces the most heat based on the same wattage. Whether your tank can maintain your desired temp depends on quite a few factors, i.e.
1) Room Temp
2) Room Ventilation
3) Water Circulation
4) Pumps/filters used

Cheers
JC

Hi JC,
I fully agree...
Anyway, my house ventilation is not that good, no wind most of the time...
Only running a Ehiem pro II 2028 for my tank though which might explains the low temperature.

[grey_fox]

Just a quick link for those whom wanna see more of Amano tanks....

Swee... *drools*

[Goondoo]

Swee... *drools*

put a pail under your mouth, you wont wanna spend extra monies on keyboard now.....

[grey_fox]

until the day that I am able to scape like that, looks like all I can do is to buy more keyboards for the time being

[StanChung]

until the day that I am able to scape like that, looks like all I can do is to buy more keyboards for the time being

ask yourself, you want to be farmer or artist? or artistic farmer?

[aqua_not]

What kind of lights should I get for Glosso to thrive? Is a 36wx2 PL light sufficient for a 24x18x18 tank? Would it be enough should I decide to do a re-scape later (plant other varieties of plants).

[mordrake]

72W PL is mighty enough for a 2ft tank and would enable you to keep most plants. of course we are assuming that nutrients & co2 are well maintained.

now back to amano's tank. imho, the discus were only added in after the tank has been setup and matured with the glosso lawn already formed.
to have fish like discus from the onset of the scape would be very damaging to the glosso as they like to look for food in the gravel. this will cause the glosso to be loosened/pulled out.

i'm also tempted to rescape my 6ft to this scape but too bad have 9 adult discus in the tank already.... not to mention ard 30+ cories

post your setup when it up okie

[StanChung]

read somewhere those discus are fed via a strainer feeder BW only... so no beefheart!

72 w of pl is good to keep the glosso down for 18"ht tank. i had 2 ft high tank 72wpl wasn't enough to keep glosso down, lousy reflectors perhaps.

[V31]

I don't want to create new thread because of almost same thing: How to achieve something like this?
I can't imagine how maintain tank with moss on the ground. Or how to plant it to the gravel? Any idea advanced scapers ?

[Justikanz]

V31, use wire mesh to grow the moss and then place them on the gravel. The moss floor will need to be regularly trimmed, though.

[V31]

Interesting, I saw how to make moss wall. So the principle seems to be same.
What about lighting? Tank I posted seems to has strong light, moss has beautiful fresh colour, hasn't it?

[|squee|]

That picture is off-colour, the moss is a darker green in real life.

That tank is lighted rather averagely imho. I do not know of the exact wattage though.

[StanChung]

lights that are a tad warm will give you that colour. still looks very good and moss tanks are a breeze to maintain...comparatively to lets say... riccia!

alternatively i've planted moss on glass strips...sinks well but may create anaerobic conditions underneath it.

[Ibn]

Just lots of moss. On wood, it's probably tied down to it using some sort of threads/lines. Foreground, you can use mesh or just tie them to rocks and move them around (with rocks, you can build mounds pretty easily).

Also wanted to add my input on MH. Heat isn't really an issue if you get the lights at 12" and higher. I'm running a pair of 250W halides (500W total) over a 90 gallon tank which is 36" on the long side and don't have any problems with it (26.5C).

[StanChung]

wow...you'd never have to turn the indoor lights on i bet!