I love this plant tank, not about tank but the system. Ok lets go…
Tank Specification;
Tank size: 36 x 18 x 18”
Lighting: 4 x Arcadia 18W FL, and 1 x 36W PLL.
DV bacterial bottom ground gravel substrate (10%), brownish volcano substrate (15%), Tormet (5%), remaining ADA Amazonia I & Africana from previous 2nd project (estimate 55% both), lastly top up with Holland sand (15%).
Hardware underneath the tank: – Under gravel plate, 3 aerations air stone, and “JBL” gravel heating cable.
Bottom fertilizers: – Florapol, Ferrotabs, DV bottom activator.
Routing fertilizers: – “Seachem” iron, Potassium and Comprehensive Plant Supplement.

Time to start doing some work before everything go down to drain.

1st; Clean out the huge canister filter.
Look here were the secrete “recipe”, the Substrate Pro 2.

Bottom secrete; Hexa Ring & Sintere glass Ring.

Closing after cleaning all filter media.

Reverse view of the caniter’s cover.

0,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1, Houston, Ready to fires up…..

Eheim & Jebo. The Jebo “Canister” is relatively tougher and better in term of build quality and moulding precision. But Jebo filter pump like 2nd World War aeroplane.
May be due to different OEM product manufacturer in combination.

Placement of 2 flow outlet (one in front another in rear corner).
Surface movement is considerably extreme. Well i never used any spray bar ever since i have a canister filter, i really hate that spray bar, it only jeopardize the overall system performance (Bad invention).

“Screw turbulence linear” transparent surface extracter. Ha! that was self invented after a dozen fail & error. Performing water surface limes clear out in minutes.

Sometime in the middle of tank-set.

Arctica is hc rotala’s dream chiller. It generated less heat around in confined space, secondly it digital thermostat is more precise in temperature control.

Master & Sub functionality…..

Floor secured.