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10-18-2012, 09:47 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: Southern California
Age: 22
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" Star Destroyer " tank.
As a few of you know, I have an 80g tall tank, and that thing was driving me insane with the maintenance of trying to get to the bottom of a 32" tall tank. So I traded down to a 60g, which is SO much nicer. It has taken some serious time and effort to get this thing switched over and running, and it is finally done, finished today!
Water is perfect, CO2 dialed in at around 15ppm, lots of dry ferts mixed up, Ammonia/Nitrate/Nitrite 0, pH 6.5, light PAR at substrate level is between 60-100 which is cool with the shorter fixture I have; it allows me to have high light plants in some serious light, and the rest at a good PAR. I am SOOOO ready to just sit back and watch this thing flourish.
I still need to get a bunch of those pebbles out of there, I hate the way they look, but it just takes time to get them all. The water is a little brownish from the tannins leaching from the wood, but that should clear up with my next water change or 2. So here is a really short video of the tank!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPdNf...ature=youtu.be
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10-19-2012, 11:11 AM
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A piece of the amazon
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Anchorage Alaska
Age: 28
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Nice job bud. Tank looks great. That hollowed out log is BA! What kind of light are you using?
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plants, plants, plants and some fish. Some freaking cool plants and fish!
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10-19-2012, 12:09 PM
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Naturalist
Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: Southern California
Age: 22
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Originally Posted by grogan
Nice job bud. Tank looks great. That hollowed out log is BA! What kind of light are you using?
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Coral life 36" 4X 39W T5HO 10,000k suspended up above the tank hanging from the ceiling. I can raise it if the light is too intense, but for now it seems to be just right.
That log is no ordinary log. It is a large piece of Joshua Tree skeleton. I happen to have a large collection of them...
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10-19-2012, 01:37 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: Maine
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Tanks looks amazing...
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10-19-2012, 02:01 PM
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Location: Southern California
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Originally Posted by MainelyFish
Tanks looks amazing...
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Thank you  I wish there was a faster way to get the tannins out of the water lol.. But one thing you learn with planted tanks, is patience.
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11-07-2012, 06:04 PM
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Last edited by Murloc; 11-07-2012 at 08:54 PM.
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