Blue Aquarium » CO2 http://www.blueaquarium.org Discover world of aquarium plant Fri, 29 Jul 2011 17:58:40 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 The Land Of Hidden Fish By Barakainus http://www.blueaquarium.org/2010/07/the-land-of-hidden-fish-by-barakainus/ http://www.blueaquarium.org/2010/07/the-land-of-hidden-fish-by-barakainus/#comments Wed, 14 Jul 2010 17:35:34 +0000 Blueaquarium http://www.blueaquarium.org/?p=406 The Land Of Hidden Fish By Barakainus]]> The-Land-of-Hidden-Fish-by-barakainus-1 The-Land-of-Hidden-Fish-by-barakainus-2 The-Land-of-Hidden-Fish-by-barakainus-3 The-Land-of-Hidden-Fish-by-barakainus-4 The-Land-of-Hidden-Fish-by-barakainus-5 The-Land-of-Hidden-Fish-by-barakainus-6

Equipment:
Tank – Do!Aqua 90p 94x45x45 cm (36x18x18″) That’s about 48 gallons
Stand – half-DYI 36x18x33″
Light – GLO light T5HO 2x39W, both 6700K, one Lifeglo, one Coralife
Filtration – Eheim Ecco 2232 (35gal) and 2236 (80gal) with Do!Aqua and Aquamagic glass lily pipes
Heater – Hydor In-line 200W (on 2236)
CO2 – pressurized 5lb, 24/7 at about 0.5 bps. Diffuser under small powerhead (for now)

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Scape:
Bottom layer – mix of natural Fluorite, Laterite, Turface and sand
Upper layer – mix of black Fluorite, Laterite and black Onyx sand.
Front – Sand from Lake Tahoe
Manzanita collected in East Sierras and Lake Tahoe area (soaked and hand scrapped)
Rocks bought from fellow aquarist

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Plants:
Java fern ‘narrow leaf’, ‘windellow’ and ‘trident’
Anubias nana and nana ‘petitte’
Bolbitis heudelotti
Crypt. wendtii ‘mi oya’, ‘Florida sunset’, ‘green gecko’, (?)
C. lutea
C. parva
Eleocharis acicularis
Glossostigma elatinoides
Hydrocotyle
Hygrophila corymbosa ‘compact’
Lobelia cardinalis
Myriophyllum mattogrossense
Mayaca fluviatilis
Rotala macrandra
R. indica
R. colorata
Potamogeton gayii
Polygonum sp. kawagoeanum
Blyxa aubertii
Echinodorus ‘vesuvius’
Fissidens fontanus

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Animals:
Cardinal tetras (Paracheirodon axelrodi) – 10
Rummynose tetras (Hemigrammus bleheri) – 30(?)
Columbian tetras (Hyphessobrycon colombianus) – 2
Panda cory (Corydoras panda) – 5
Mystery cory (Corydoras ????) – 2
Otto (Otocinclus affinis?) – 2
Pitbull Pleco (LDA-25) (Parotocinclus jumbo) – 1
Amano shrimp (Caridina japonica ) – 1
MTS (Elanoides tuberculata) – many
other snails (Helisoma sp. (?), Physa acuta, Lymnea (?), Planorbis sp.)

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Source : aquaticplantcentral.com

]]> http://www.blueaquarium.org/2010/07/the-land-of-hidden-fish-by-barakainus/feed/ 3 120P Journal by Wonderboy http://www.blueaquarium.org/2007/08/120p-journal-by-wonderboy/ http://www.blueaquarium.org/2007/08/120p-journal-by-wonderboy/#comments Fri, 31 Aug 2007 04:23:46 +0000 admin http://www.blueaquarium.org/2007/08/120p-journal-by-wonderboy/ 120P Journal by Wonderboy Aquarium: ADA 120P tank Stand: Leemar custom-built stand]]> I’ll be keeping a journal of all progress on this tank setup for all to learn from and critique.

Aquarium: ADA 120P tank
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This is exactly the same stand as the ones at Aquatouch…

Equipment:

Filter: Fluval 405 (had one laying around)
Heater: In-line Hydor 300w
UV: 36w Jebo uv-sterilizer
CO2: 5lb cylinder with milwakee regulator/solenoid

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Lighting: Tek T5 HO 4x 54w fixture

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CO2 equip.: rip-off co2 glassware, cabochon ruby check valve

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Glass filter stuff: Cal Aqua lily pipes, glass softenizer

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Substrate: ADA aquasoil, powersand, tourmaline bc, clear super, bacter 100

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Decor: rocks.

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And the fun part:
I had a friend of mine blow glass elbows so I could do this for my lily pipes’ return and intake:

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OKAY! I got all my plants, so without any further waiting:

Step 1: Tourmaline BC

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2: Powersand, clear super and bacter 100

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3: Aquasoil

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4: Hardscape

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5: Foreground planting

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6: Background planting/final outcome!

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And here’s how the CO2 glassware turned out:

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This is how the glass elbows for my filter intake and outtake looks when finished:

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Plants used:
micranthemum micranthemoides, hc, blyxa japonica, eriocaulon cinereum, and didiplis diandra.

Source : Aquatic Plant Central

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