Home Aquariums
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I love this thread, it's so relaxing, plant thread therapy
- KNAPPO
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Had a spare 1.5L jar and some locally found hardwood so put this together on Sunday.
Planted it up with some trimmings but it needs some more so holding off on taking a planted shot till im happy with it.
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Friggin cool, would love to try this.
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I had to make a few changes to my living bowl. Had been contemplating them for a few weeks but more than happy with the outcome.
Getting close to 6 months since I initially planted this.
Getting close to 6 months since I initially planted this.
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The little guy above just won me 1st place in a comp and $150!
Stoked.
Stoked.
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Nicely done
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My latest tank is 3 months old now.
Put the $150 store voucher I won with the mini paludarium into hardscape materials for this one. All the wood was from my local reserve.
Before I tore this tank down it looked like this
This pic was taken last weekend.
Put the $150 store voucher I won with the mini paludarium into hardscape materials for this one. All the wood was from my local reserve.
Before I tore this tank down it looked like this
This pic was taken last weekend.
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- Duke
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That's awesome KNAPPO but we're are all the finny friends?
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There are around 100 red cherry shrimp in there and 6 Otocinclus catfish. I prefer shrimp to fish as they clean the tank/plants and their bio load is pretty much zero. Fish just shit everywhere and when I stocked swordtails, they would nip at the plants and eat the baby shrimp.Duke wrote:That's awesome KNAPPO but we're are all the finny friends?
When this tank is a bit more established I might stock a school of 20 small tetras. But before then I want the shrimp population to be at least around 2-300.
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My latest creation that I finally got started this weekend.
The Logadarium.
The Logadarium.
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That is really cool
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This arrived today, so perhaps i can think about restarting my tank..
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Almost a year later and its still going and no water has ended up on the floor!
What amazes me is the backside of the log has remained dry. I would have thought after a year of running it would have wicked thru by now and waterlogged it.
What amazes me is the backside of the log has remained dry. I would have thought after a year of running it would have wicked thru by now and waterlogged it.
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That's so awesome Knappo
returning to this topic also makes me a little sad as i realise that the new filter that i purchased in Sep 2020 is still in it's box and that i haven't re-started my aquarium :/
returning to this topic also makes me a little sad as i realise that the new filter that i purchased in Sep 2020 is still in it's box and that i haven't re-started my aquarium :/
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There's a simulator for everything these days
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Predicting 1st person miniaturised scuba aquarium engineer game.
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I have had a play with something similar but its pretty useless for me. You need to work with the materials you have on hand, you can design up something that might work in the simulator but good luck finding that rock or wood!
Nothing beats a crazy idea, lots of materials on hand, alcohol and copious amounts of superglue.
Something new im working on at the moment. Almost finished the hardscape.
Nothing beats a crazy idea, lots of materials on hand, alcohol and copious amounts of superglue.
Something new im working on at the moment. Almost finished the hardscape.
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