Since Killi keepers are always curious, and it is always good to see how others do things. Here is my current setup. One thing about fishkeeping is everytime you come back to it, well you get a bit smarter with each iteration.

It is pretty much the same as before, but slowly getting better. I installed 2x 4' tubes above the shelf, one pink/red one daylight. I am working on one shelf at a time. So this shelf also has an ice box in the corner and it did have coolant lines running through while i was testing. I am just waiting on some electronics and bits coming in. I am building in some Peltier coolers that will be in the ice box, then am planning on using the coolant system to pump cold water through the lines. The lines then go into each tank and by controlling the amount of flow into each tank, i can control the temp. It worked fine under testing. Heat exchange will be through 3/16 aluminium tubing i am still waiting for. The actual peltier/TEC units I am planning to control through pulse width modulation at 10A max rating for the tech types. The lines themselves will be wrapped in neoprene to stop condensation, and because I am mean and the electricity is expensive here, so I dont want to waste energy. Well thats the plan..

This was work in progress...Prototyping. If it works for this shelf then I will get more bits in and do it for the others.



Currently:



Under the hood:



I still seem to be fooling about growing algae and other things as much as fish, but... I have taken an interest in plants.. Anyway I cant keep borrowing Java moss from Selena now she is into her Carnivorous plants and things. I have rigged up a DIY yeast CO2 system, and I have to admit it is fun checking on the plants, and well watching the bubbles come off them. And they now seem to grow at incredible rates. In the past all I ever saw my plants do was go brown and die.

One of my mini jungles:



Oh and this is my current experiments in natural filtration... plants. Also I am lazy and well I figure the plants growing well provide as much or more biological filtration as sponge filters which i used to use. The plants though look nicer and dont take up room or get messy like the sponge filters do.