Well i guess nothing is forever, i bought some HC from a fellow hobbiest and it had some sort of algae that bloomed in a big way. almost wiped out every thing in the tank. sound have taken pics of it but at the time all i wanted was to get rid of it well it's been 3 months and i Finlay have the upper hand. so it would seem that hospital tanks for plants is my next step I'll never add anything to the tank with out a quarantine.I'd add some pics to this as to where the tank is now but i don't seem to have a pic reducer that works with this site. anyone have a link for a program to shrink the photos?
Waaaahhh, what a nice setup " paludarium habitats the cool garden"which is half land and half water. It is very impressive and very properly arranged, I wonder if is hard to maintain the tank (the growth of plants, filtration, sunlight and the waterfall)etc. Once again good work and keep it up.
Never create what you can't control
wow, nice set up and lovely tank. Looks like all your efforts has been paid in full. Enjoy.
That is a dream tank that most people would love to have
Lovely paludarium set-up you have there! Great job. It must be quite a challenge when is comes to plant maintenance.
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Pictures to go with update: I have decided that since i placed 148 in the ADA competition for 2007 with no ferts and little effort. I thought I'd join the band wagon and add high light being 2-Watt ADA green Metal halides as you can see they are green in color maybe a tad to much for my set up the Tank section is very contrasting to the waterfall. it may just be me and what i was use to so I'll give it a couple weeks and see from there. So i am going to try EI dosing and High light and see where it leads to. I had a small nightmare getting my new lights and several plants have not faired so well without much light for 2 weeks. the tank is now two weeks old. but only 12 hours with the new lights The quartz halogen i was using did have a draw back the switch couldn't take the heat for 8 hours day after day. though the fixtures were only 42 dollars for 150 watt it became a pain having to re-wire new lights to fit into the set up.The more i look at the pictures the more I'm sure I'll be getting 5,200,6500 or 10,000 k bulbs to better blend with the waterfall. constructive criticisms welcomed
Last edited by gbbudd; 2nd Feb 2008 at 14:16.
The ADA Green 8000k have been replaced with ADA standard 8000k MH and one 35 watt glow t5 5700k floresant. a far better match in color to the Quarts halogen above the water level for the falls heres the latest pic of how the new set up is coming along.
Image a little blurred. Looks simply amazing. When its fully matured again it will look breathe taking i'm sure. Definately keeping tabs on this thread still
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