Blub

Where did you get such a neat idea?! I'd try it on my 47gal, but it would probabably be a bit noisy in my bedroom and be like a bombing raid for the hatchets!

pepetj

Update: not that good with airstones after all, neither with the circular/oval bubble accessories... a spraybar works best. Check this info (has good pics)

http://www.aquariacentral.com/forums...d.php?t=109900

Since I want some heavy rain effect, I will check on multiple shower heads (if we can complicate something simple, why not?)

Pepe
Santo Domingo

Dark_Rider2k3

That's the spirit!!! I am going to complicate mine so you should complicate yours haha!

Thanks for finding out about the air stones.. guess it's just sticking with the current setup... though I do like the PVC (it's just too big for my hood).

I was thinking of all the neat things I could do to add realism to my tank... and seeing the rain made me think it would be awesome to have it raining inside the tank..

It can be a bit noisy, and i'm not sure how the water hits.. but i don't think it's too hard.. haha I wonder how your hatchets would respond to it

Butterfly

Experiment away guys and do my work for me
Unless the water is hitting hard enough to knock the hatchets around I don't think they would mind. The idea is- the water level has dropped over the winter now it's spring and the torrential rains are here washing copious food into the water and raising the levels. Boom! spawning everywhere.
My angels have always spawned better during storms. So I guess they feel the change in barometric pressure and instinct tells them soon its going to rain and there will be more food ?
Carol

Dark_Rider2k3

yeah I'm realizing there is more to rain then just water falling..

I am going to try and get the Aqua Controller and see if I can set that up with my rainfall to see if I can set it up with the actual rain outside..

Blub

I think the larger hatchets might not mind, but perhaps some of the smaller species (Dwarfs etc.) would be thrown around like crazy! It would be really cool to have a rainfall stimulator on in perhaps 3 intervals during the day and lots of floating plants in case the hatchets don't feel happy with the 'rain'. What would be really cool is the rain comming down with a slightly different pH - if you think about amazon rain would probably be slightly higher in pH than the river water because it has not been exposed to peat and tannins like the river water!

Dark_Rider2k3

What you could do is set up a bucket with the powerhead in it... and have the hose attach to the powehead and travel into the auquarium..

and just use some of that PH raising stuff you get at the LFS to make it slightly higher.

Juand15

very good idea. next time i do a water change to my 20gal i video it, so you can see the way i do my rain effect, very easy and dont need to spend money.

Blub

The pH raising/lowering stuff in my experience isn't that good (And in a normal tank a bad idea!)

Butterfly

Yeah lets don't mess with the ph guys ok?
I usually do a large water change in the breeding tanks just before it rains and have good luck but I still like the rain idea.
Carol