Corleone's ADA-60P Jounal

[Corleone]

I'm back! Its been sometime since I stopped doing planted tanks, but just kind of felt the urge to start one a few months back so started to source and gather equipment to start on this project.

Decided to start putting things together over the weekend, and will be using this thread to document the tanks progress, and hope fully everything goes smoothly so I can submit it for next year's IAPLC. Still waiting for the substrate to arrive but did some wood scaping first.

Aquarium: ADA 60P Cube Garden W60 x D30 x H36 (cm)
Lighting: Giesemann Nova II (NAMH – 150W)
Filtration: Eheim 2213 (Bio Rio, NA Carbon)
Filtration via: ADA Lily pipe Inflow V-3 and outflow P-2
Substrate: Waiting for shipment to arrive.
CO2: ADA Pollen Glass Type 3 via ADA Bubble Counter.

[eviltrain]

looking great, another expensive setup coming soon.

[blue33]

The light dont look bright to me, looks more like 70W to me. Looking forward to your scape.

[Corleone]

The light dont look bright to me, looks more like 70W to me. Looking forward to your scape.

Yeah, took the pictures before the light was fully powered up. =)

[ranmasatome]

nice to have you back! looking forward to the setup and growth of this tank. Using just plain wood?

[Matt.Lee]

Wow, this is great. Very nice. Wondering what's the damage like for this kind of setup? Care to share.

[Corleone]

nice to have you back! looking forward to the setup and growth of this tank. Using just plain wood?

Hey bro! its been some time! Haven't really settled what to use for the scape, guess i'll figure it out along the way.

[Corleone]

Wow, this is great. Very nice. Wondering what's the damage like for this kind of setup? Care to share.

I emailed you the damage, don't want to write it here and remind myself everytime i check the thread..=(

[Wackytpt]

Lionel,

Great to see you back in action. You stil staying in the west?

If free meet up for coffee. Would love to see your tank in action.

Cheers
Nicholas

[Corleone]

Hey Nic! Great to hear from you again. I see you are still going strong as a moderator here =)

Yeah, still living in the west, coffee sounds good. =)

[Corleone]

been so busy for the last few weeks, finally had time to do some scaping. here's and update on how the tank is looking now. Quite loving the clean foreground look for the meantime. =)

[ranmasatome]

Hmm... Very promising indeed!

[blue33]

Is your lighting hanging bar solid stainless steel? Wont it be too heavy for the cabinet to hold it?

[Corleone]

Is your lighting hanging bar solid stainless steel? Wont it be too heavy for the cabinet to hold it?

Yeah, both are solid stainless steel but hollow, so not actually very heavy.

[blue33]

Solid hollow? the bar end looks like solid cover, any close up picture would be great. i'm afraid the bar is also resting on the tank from the picture i see, that would be risky. is it machine bend or you bend it yourself, looks like there's a budge at the bending part. i got a similar one i did for my new tank setup also, done by machine bend. i leave a gap about 5cm away from the tank and cabinet. Here's the picture of the bar.

[Corleone]

Hahaha..Yeah, the end part that makes it look solid is inserted in. Did not custom the bar, got it from LFS so it was already machine bent when i got it.
Mine is not lying on the tank too, cause the bar holders were drilled onto the back of the cabinet and there is some allowance.

but thinking of changing the lights. I think its kind of overkill for my plants.

if anyone is interested, please do contact me.

anyway. today's update of the tank.



Can't seem to add image for some reason, added the link below.

http://flic.kr/p/8t6YV4

[Shadow]

you need to click the "share this" drop down menu on top your photos, select "grab html", select the image size and click the BB code then cut and paste to your post.

[Corleone]

IMGP3536 by Pabloieul, on Flickr

Great, thanks shadow!

[ltsai]

Hahaha..Yeah, the end part that makes it look solid is inserted in. Did not custom the bar, got it from LFS so it was already machine bent when i got it.

Which LFS did you get the bar from?

[barmby]

Do you have chiller? How do you cool the tank?