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Planning a 90p tank with slow growing and low demanding crypts/java ferns .

Want the shimmer effect (not too much) without the cost of the hyperspot skylight.

Anyone with other suggestions or experience with focus lights like in this picture, which comes with a holder. Would probably just need a PAR at substrate of 50 or lower, having a dimmer would be a plus.

Finally a journal.

I’ll soon be setting up two new tanks, a UNS 90p and a 50c. (Not so!) Patiently awaiting tanks and stands delivery.

They will both be middle energy tanks. I have lengthy periods of busy time and travel that mean the tanks need to survive without human intervention here and there. So plenty of automation is needed, and slow and steady wins over high energy. Or in BBQ smoking terms: low and slow.

Plans:

• Injected CO2, but less than 30ppm
• Inert gravel
• Tidal HOB filter and partial UGF plate.
• Less than EI ferts, but more than PPS pro.
• Tap water (my tap is 50 TDS and only 10ppm Ca) remineralized to 30ppm Ca and 3-4 dKH.
• Lower light levels: Week aqua L on 90p and Chihiros wrgb 2 slim on 50c.
• Easy slow growing plants, and a few fish. Thinking the 50c will be a shrimp tank.
• Some hardscape but nothing crazy

My last tank has had a rough year. Hurricane Helene meant two weeks with no electricity, and much longer without decent water changes.

Then last summer the tank developed a slow leak while I was out of town (ugh!). Had to fly home for a week to triage. Fish and plants have been in temporary tanks. Plants are struggling. Photo is when they had already been in temporary bin for over 6 weeks, I was surprised it didn’t look like an algae infested swamp.





Sooo ready for my new tanks! These are my first really nice tanks, I’ve only owned petco specials before.

For the new tanks I'm planning on over ordering plants since my surviving plants are clearly pretty weak at this point.

Welcome to ScapeCrunch, @astrobooger!
We would love to get to know you. Please tell us about yourself. What tank do you have?

Some of the other terrestrial projects I’m working on. Slowly building towards the halo project, an ebb and flow Florida wetland biotope utilizing a bell siphon for tidal management. These are almost all in my office. The bog biotopes are experiments for emersed growing species that are sensitive to shipping in fully submersed form (Sclerolepis unifloria, for example).

Hi everyone, I'm curious. My pH is 0 and my GH is 7. My pH is 5.5/5.6 all day. I use CO2 24/7. My pH drop is 1.6/1.7. I degas the water with an air pump for two hours, then I check every hour until the pH becomes stable. Why does the drop control always stay green? Isn't the pH drop high for a 0KH? Should it be yellow? Or am I wrong? Thank you very much.

ciao a tutti ragazzi, vi scrivo dall' italia, un grosso saluti a tutti, un abbraccio, ho due acquari uno 32 litri netti e uno da 65 litri netti, grazie per avermi accolto, ciao ciao

This setup is too crazy to not share - enjoy!

Welcome to ScapeCrunch, @chigos85!
We would love to get to know you. Please tell us about yourself. What tank do you have?

This is the future home for the announcements when someone obtains an achievement badge. Let the games begin!

Catchy title isnt it. By golly it makes my heart beat faster…

Well maybe this photo can help make up for a dry title..


“Ludwigia pantanal with stunted crowns grown in a tank with high nitrate in the water column (20+ppm) but no ammoniacal nitrogen (left picture) VS Ludwigia pantanal grown in a tank with limited nitrate (0ppm residual in the water column) but with ammoniacal nitrogen in the substrate zone (right picture).”

I was reading this in @Dennis Wong article on the 2 hr aquarist.


I have grown L Pantanal that look like the photo on the left in a water column only fertilized tank..

Now I was finding the stem grew so fast it would have to be shortened weekly. I uprooted it and shortened it and replanted the upper portion and would cut remaining stems prgressively shorter to form an attractive bush.

I had tried cutting off the top and forming the bush that way and regrowth was affected and the bunch never looked as good.

My question relates to how well a shortened stem without roots absorbs from the substrate? Dies the growth stall from lack of nutrients as it grows roots?

What exactly is the best method of shortening the stems and getting an attractive presentation and good growth using lean wc dosing and rich aquasoil?