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Very nice, it looks like you are using the same logic tiimg did in running the tank water through MORE PLANTS, to remove nitrates, is this the concept? I love it regardless, looks like a slice of reality, above water river bank, and below!
I think that NextstepAquatics had started this a long time before I drempt of the aquaponics setup! It is a fantastic work of art, and shows considerable skill in the choice of plants as well as incredible attention to detail. Nitrates wouldn't be too much of a problem though, as there isn't a lot of room left for fish! It's amazing.
If you look at the pictures closely, you can see a few neons, what look like cardinals and maybe a couple of other small fish there, but all in all, it's a display for a planted tank rather than a fish tank.
OK to start with the first question, and the one most have made comment to is the fish there are 70 fish in the tank. 20 red nose rummiesbottom schoolers, 20 Harlequin rasboras top to middle schoolers. 4 Otto cats three flying fox, two simease algae eaters,8 agoo-boos,golden piscotomus. one cherry barb i just can't catch.ammano shrimp how many i have no idea there breeding constantly.seems like i see babies every two months. ghost shrimp, 10 bumble bee gobbies. and the latest addition 6 orange darters,
question number two how long the tank was set up October 2005, it evolves constantly between pruning and finding new pieces for the puzzle, just added a piece of granite to the upper section on the left side thats covered in liken.pictures to come.
here's the question and answer everyone has a hard time with LIGHTING well folks i am just using what most call shop,drop or work lights, that being QUARTZ HALOGEN with the open top and water fall i did not want to block anything with a canopy or pendants so i needed small and powerful lighting so i gave architectural desk lamps a shot and well you can see in the pics it works. yes the color is a tad yellow not as much as atinics are blue but yes a little yellow but for the waterfall not being blocked i can deal with a little yellow.
as far as nitrates, ammonia, salt, ferts, i test for nothing and add nothing though i am going to start. very very minimally at first. for every time i tried before even in small doses hairline algae grew. This is not something from someone Else's post where i got the idea I'm a builder by trade and i had a sunken living room. the tank looked so lost i first moved a house plant close to the tank liked the look then while seeing a koi pond and falls. i said why not in the house. it does have a few considerations evaporation is high and being in a corner mold started to grow. problem solved. second is it's 92 gallons at 8 pounds a gallon 736 pounds of water. at least 100 pounds substrate tank had to be 300, stand 50,and at least 400 pounds for the water fall dirt and rocks oh and a tree stump about 60 pounds. total 1600 pounds in a 4x4 area. thats 100 pounds per square foot. in laymen terms the floor is maxed out. had to add supports in the basement.
OK to start with the first question, and the one most have made comment to is the fish there are 70 fish in the tank. 20 red nose rummiesbottom schoolers, 20 Harlequin rasboras top to middle schoolers. 4 Otto cats three flying fox, two simease algae eaters,8 agoo-boos,golden piscotomus. one cherry barb i just can't catch.ammano shrimp how many i have no idea there breeding constantly.seems like i see babies every two months. ghost shrimp, 10 bumble bee gobbies. and the latest addition 6 orange darters,
and a partridge in a pear tree? I'm guessing that because the tank is so large you lose perspective in the photo and "can't see the fish for the trees"
Even my wife (who is almost dead against me having a tank) stopped walking past when I brought up the big photo and exclaimed "wow that's nice"... Good onya mate for showing us all that it CAN be done!
don't let the name fool you im no expert or fish store "god knows most of them are hardly experts. im just thinking about the next step. any laymen can do it just have to have the will
don't let the name fool you im no expert or fish store "god knows most of them are hardly experts. im just thinking about the next step. any laymen can do it just have to have the will
the name and quality of the tank did fool us. such a marvellous tank.. and such a lot of work went into it.
update coming, i added some plants from a fellow aquarist and well much like when adding fish a quaranteen tank is advisable well i should have done the same for plants it practicaly wiped out my tank. hey nothing is for ever i working on the next layout out now a journal may be up and coming. it's going to be a challange to beat my previus but i have a couple ideas im working on . but here what the tank use to look like. http://s194.photobucket.com/albums/z232/gbbudd/
Last edited by NextstepAquatics; January 19th, 2008 at 12:19 AM.
Sad to hear you lost everything. Can't wait to see what you Next Step in Aquatics is going to be...I know that was really bad and very cheesy but I am looking forward to see what ideas you come up with.
it looks like you went to some remote, lush tropical rainforest river....took some giant tool that chopped out a giant square of the jungle and river bank and plopped it down into your living room.
UPDATE due to buying some HC from a message board " first and last" i add some algae into my tank unknowingly and it just about whipped out the entire tank. Just as adding new fish a hospital tank for plants will be added to my rutine from now on. Though saying good buy to a lot of hard work an old friend. Some times change is not a bad thing, so heres to the next generation. I'm going to try adding ferts this time around and stepping up to metal halide 2- 150 watt Ammano green, and actually bought some test kits to check the levels for iron hardly even registers 0.1, phosphates 2.0 , Nitrates 2.5, Co2 17,pH 6.2, KH 6, GH 12 AMMONIA 0. nitrite 0 .I am still finding conflicting numbers to what the targets are. Any imput on these numbers is welcomed. I still have a small amount of this hair algae to contend with but working hard to beat it so heres the next layout I'm working on and we'll see where it ends up. so far so good. set up is A week old now, some new some old plants i probably should have started fresh and got rid of substrate and all plants but we'll see what happens.
Have you ever heard of Otocinclus catfish, and Siamese algae eaters? SAE's are the only fish to eat hair algae. You could get one for your tank - I think it would work!
ONCE HAIR ALGAE forms into longer strands, being more then an inch i have never seen my sae's eat it. two fish i do know that have is the Flag fish native to southern usa/ florida and i have had pearl angels also feast on it though if over fed they won't eat as much. IF your water is old and cold theres no hope to remove hair algae. weekly or at max every other week water chages are a must.
Last edited by NextstepAquatics; January 31st, 2008 at 03:34 PM.
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