Project sunken garden

[Jervis]

Thanks for the tips... I believe a project of this magnitude will not be easily replicate in Singapore... just wondering although the warmer colour temperature of your MH bulb gives better growth... a whiter bulb (say 10000K) might look more natural. In your latest pix, I see whitish light coming from your skylight... but the tank looks very yellow.

[Jungle-mania]

How is the water leakage? Did you manage to find it?

[medicineman]

@jervis,
Used to have white 6700K lamp until it failed prematurely. Since it is a 400W unit, it is not so easy to find a replacement bulb as I wish. What I can have is this 5000K unit which is in my opinion a bit too yellow for viewing.
The growth is fine though. I've been using it for months and my plants speak for themselves.

BTW, you have a lead to whereabout of white 400W single ended MH bulb in SG?

@Jungle-mania,
The outrageous leak (100+ liter per day) was discovered and fixed. There are some other sources of large water loss even so, but at more reasonable rate. Now I have to top up the system every 2 days to prevent the filter from being out of water. Perhaps after I got tired of it, I will simply make an automatic water leveling system and hook it up the tap, as simple as your toilet flushing mechanism.

A good lesson for those who want to follow my path. Make sure you make the system as leak proof as possible!

@reefzlover,
You could consider making one inside all glass. A huge tank and decorate it vivarium way. Also nice and much more manageable.

[medicineman]

Final set of pictures for this session :

From the top view.




Considerably much fuller than the intial set-up.

[herosipet]

Hi! Dedy,
Any update for my wall paper? LOL.
Just droping by to say Hello.

[medicineman]

Hi.

There are some minor repositioning and I keep trimming back the stem plants.
Will keep this one updated later on

[Verminator]

I can't believe i've been on this forum for as long as i have and not come across this thread. Simply breath-taking. Words cannot describe how in awe i am at this "tank"

I take my hat off to you sir!

[Joseph*]

Yes, it is indeed a great piece of work/art/design.

All it is lacking now is some tropical birds flying around, frogs and some tree snakes and it would be a complete piece of rainforest in there. (then you would need to set up an enclosure for that area, haha)

I'm just crazy, don't mind me. But it certainly looks like it will go in that direction if you have no boundaries for your project.

[medicineman]

Here comes the sun... didudidum....

As the season passed by and month switches,
So does the sun is back to shine!

Earth orbit has switched to the sunny side!
For the next 4-5 months it is going to be more sunshine directly on to the garden. I expect some changes in growth, and probably but hopefully not, algae as well.

A shot for you all


I'm going have to jump in again for trimming very soon if it goes like this

[luncheonMeat]

Wow! Your tank has certainly come a long way. Time to get wet!
3 Cheers for your tank!

[Trevor]

A W E S O M E!

[Joseph*]

Breathtaking..

[Panut]

Crystal clear water despite direct sunlight.
AwEsOmE!

[rbt]

Wow the clarity of the water is simply amazing....making me thirsty lol.

[cibserg]

Congratulations. Most beautiful project I have seen.
Thank you for sharing with us.

[aquafren]

i like the raw nature look of your tank set up, medicineman. It should give your torpedo barbs very good growth environment.

[medicineman]

Lichen/moss growth on a part of the backdrop

[medicineman]

View from above on how dense the terrestrial plant can be, even without proper misting system (could have been better with one).
I just mix some Wonder-Gro Macro+ or Micro+ into my 2 gallon hand-pump misting spray and give occasionally.

[devilzvinz]

THIS IS AWESOME !!!

[medicineman]

Full shot



Note some of the climbing vines turned into giant form