Journal 22 gallon long bookshelf

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Man, I would have killed for these cheapo lights when I was just starting out. Just a few years ago most things at that price point were W or W+B. I mean, sure, you can grow plants like that, but who cares when they make the whole tank look like garbage? These new lights are a different story. I wonder what kind of par they are putting out?
 
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Man, I would have killed for these cheapo lights when I was just starting out. Just a few years ago most things at that price point were W or W+B. I mean, sure, you can grow plants like that, but who cares when they make the whole tank look like garbage? These new lights are a different story. I wonder what kind of par they are putting out?
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I think I’m going to bite the bullet buy the LED testing function in the Photone app and get some numbers comparing the different lights I’m running. I know it’ll be pretty useless for anyone else but maybe it’ll help me get a baseline control number to correlate with some level of growth.

Doubled up on lights at the moment and running the Hygger and Magtool side by side.

Found some cool bacopa (?) in a ditch, and a buddy was over on this coast and brought me some cherry red culls that my flagfish didn’t immediately eat.

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The natives I collected are starting to show what’s going to take to swimming and what isn’t. This Gratiola ramosa is going to be beautiful. Xyris flabelliformis looks like a winner.


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Finally managing to get rotala sunset to resemble anything near how Joe was growing them.

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And starting the teardown of the 22. The maintenance of a shallow ish tank growing Rotala and Ludwigia has made me tired. I’m going to focus on slower growing stems (Ludwigia white, glandulosa, etc), natives, epiphytes and the like. Hardscape may or may not come out. Undecided. Will be dramatically reduced at the very least.

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Maybe. Considering running it on the display tank in a closed loop and moving the ZooMed/Oase canister to the garage and replace one of the hang on filters. Lots of options. Basically no time or resources whatsoever.
 
Easier to control the flow that way without interfering with your tanks turnover. I have a 100gph pump on mine and it’s honestly too much, I have to add a ball valve eventually to keep the bubbles suspended a bit longer. I get some mist only visible when up close but I’d prefer none.
 
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