My new 55 gallon progress thread.

[Darlene]

Great looking tank. I love all the plants and fish.

[Gargoyle]

Well I know I have been gone for ever but just to update... Everything is going very well.. Maybe a little to well as I have a hard time keeping up with the plant growth so the tank gets kinda crowded with all the plants where I have to pull a bucket o' plants out of the tank to be able to work with it...

I'll work on getting a video up.. And more details of where the tank setup is now.

[aquarist48]

Beautiful!

[MeGustaUnaPez926]

Looks really nice!

[Chrisson]

I really like the no fishing sign in the middle! Watch those plants grow!

[MissMTS]

Your tank is beautiful! I can't wait to see the new video

[agabr123]

congrats! it looks amazing!

[Gargoyle]

Well a little background of the last few months...

I have been experimenting with using plants as the "primary" source of filtration in this tank. So far it has worked out very well. I am still working out the proper fertilization cycle as I have not found a perfect one yet. I apologize for the blurry video as I normally shoot these at night and get a better quality video as a result...

Anyway here is the video... Any questions please ask..

[SurfCityFish]

i love your tank! it looks incredible! I also enjoyed the elevator music on the video

[Gargoyle]

Sorry about the music.... LOL!!!

I have a new comp without any of my regular music and that was just a track that came with it...

[SurfCityFish]

haha it was actually really relaxing! it fit well with the video! What is your watt output from your lights?

[Gargoyle]

There are 4 bulbs total.. In the video only 2 of them are on. 55watt T5 in all 4 slots.. I believe the 2 that are on are 6700's and the 2 that are off are 10k's.. I don't use the 10k's much unless Im trying to boost the O2 output from the plants for whatever reason.

When people come to visit and ejoy the tank I'll flip on the other 2 so all 4 are on so they can see the pearling.. I know it's goofy..

[lilsoccakid]

brilliant set-up!

[Chrisson]

Wow huge change from before! I'm subscribing this thread.

[Gargoyle]

I will be making an update here shortly... I am making a few changes to how this is set up... The plants are getting over whelming to keep up with... LOL!!

[kuopan]

wow..the blue light is awesome! i've been thinking about changing my 20 gallon to a blue light as well. but what do you do with yours .. do you always change the lights back and forth?