Je®vis 4FT PLANTED TANK

[argonmt]

all plants are so healthy.. good job there

[luncheonMeat]

Awesome looking Bro! I love the messy wild jungle feeling! Great Job!

[keithtoh]

nice set up jervis. the wood seems a bit the "bored". you might wanna add some moss there. just my suggestion.. cheers

[Jervis]

I'm back!!! After spending all my resources and attention on my marine setup... I'm back with a vengeance

Will totally revamp the tank in 2 weeks... I have 3 Discus and some Rainbow fish to give away. Prefer to deal with 1 guy who can collect all of them at one shot. PM me

[sfk7]

Cant wait to see your new scape!!!

[Jervis]

Cant wait to see your new scape!!!

I will do the total opposite of ROJAK tank this time round

[khtee]

wow.... .... what will it be? Zen? All woods? All stone? can't wait to see

[PlAnTaNoOb]

I will do the total opposite of ROJAK tank this time round

Dutch?

[illumnae]

bare bottom discus tank!

[sfk7]

Most probably biotope? haha

Since all the rage of wild discus and the green ones from biotope looks so nice!!

[khtee]

but he is giving away the 3 discus..... maybe he is going for wild discus with pleco

[JadeIceGreen]

Wah, I can't wait to see the new scape..

[André Grassi]

Thanks all for the kind words... it's really sad to see them "give up" one by one

Anyway here's the colourful update

Introduced 2 days ago... looking healthy.

Tank very beautiful. The health of plants and Discus are impressive. Congratulations.

[Flowerhfanatic]

just curious what did you do to the downois as they seem to be spreading like wild fires.. cos mine is v slow.

[Verminator]

Flowerhfanatic you havnt mistaken his HC for downoi have you? Its a mixture of both, the HC is the plant spreading like crazy.

[properfool]

Hey Jervis did you ever get rid of your fish from this tank ?
I'm looking to adopt some fish for my 5 footer

[Jervis]

just curious what did you do to the downois as they seem to be spreading like wild fires.. cos mine is v slow.

I didn't do anything... in fact I spent a lot of effort to slow down the growth rate of all plants. Harvesting can be very time consuming.

[Jervis]

Hey Jervis did you ever get rid of your fish from this tank ?
I'm looking to adopt some fish for my 5 footer

Yeah a bro here will collect the 3 Discus this weekend... the rest of them are too difficult to net Decided to just keep them

[properfool]

Oh darn.

Will happily pick them up if he changes his mind

[Jervis]

It's time to reveal my new scape... a revamp from the previous scaping. The newest and most major introduction is the LED light fixtures.

I have "downgraded" my 6 x 54W T5 lighting to 5 x 15W LED.



The "downgrading" is in alignment with a change in plant lighting requirement. Replaced all the light hungry stem plans with low/medium lighting plants.

The overall effect is quite decent I must say considering the height of my tank (2ft) plus the supporting legs (increased distance from the LED to the water surface).



Dollars and cents:
Previous lighting 6 x 54W + 28W cooling fan = 352W/hour
Current lighting 5 x 15W (without the need for cooling fan) = 75W/hr
Savings 277W/hr running 10 hours a day = $313.00 per annum

What do you guys think?