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Re: Home Aquariums
Posted: Tue Apr 09, 2019 10:44 am
by KNAPPO
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.
Re: Home Aquariums
Posted: Wed Apr 17, 2019 7:42 pm
by Duke
Friggin cool, would love to try this.
Re: Home Aquariums
Posted: Tue May 28, 2019 12:06 pm
by KNAPPO
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.
Re: Home Aquariums
Posted: Fri Jun 21, 2019 11:29 am
by KNAPPO
The little guy above just won me 1st place in a comp and $150!
Stoked.
Re: Home Aquariums
Posted: Fri Jun 21, 2019 11:38 am
by norbs
Congrats
Re: Home Aquariums
Posted: Fri Jun 21, 2019 5:47 pm
by DarrenM
Nicely done
Re: Home Aquariums
Posted: Wed Oct 30, 2019 11:38 am
by KNAPPO
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.
Re: Home Aquariums
Posted: Wed Oct 30, 2019 6:46 pm
by Duke
That's awesome KNAPPO but we're are all the finny friends?
Re: Home Aquariums
Posted: Wed Oct 30, 2019 10:08 pm
by KNAPPO
Duke wrote:That's awesome KNAPPO but we're are all the finny friends?
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.
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.
Re: Home Aquariums
Posted: Sun Aug 23, 2020 7:48 pm
by KNAPPO
My latest creation that I finally got started this weekend.
The Logadarium.
Re: Home Aquariums
Posted: Sun Aug 23, 2020 9:12 pm
by r8response
That is really cool
Re: Home Aquariums
Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2020 5:20 pm
by CLP
This arrived today, so perhaps i can think about restarting my tank..
GOPR0170_0800.jpg
Re: Home Aquariums
Posted: Thu Aug 12, 2021 10:37 am
by KNAPPO
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.
Re: Home Aquariums
Posted: Thu Aug 12, 2021 11:53 am
by pixelboy
Knappo, you are the Aquarium GOAT!
Looks amazing
Re: Home Aquariums
Posted: Thu Aug 12, 2021 11:59 am
by CLP
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 :/
Re: Home Aquariums
Posted: Sat Oct 23, 2021 8:45 pm
by DarrenM
There's a simulator for everything these days
Re: Home Aquariums
Posted: Sun Oct 24, 2021 9:37 am
by CLP
DarrenM wrote: ↑Sat Oct 23, 2021 8:45 pm
There's a simulator for everything these days
probably cheaper and less traumatic to kill virtual fish
Re: Home Aquariums
Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2021 8:04 am
by Cursed
Predicting 1st person miniaturised scuba aquarium engineer game.
Re: Home Aquariums
Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2021 1:54 pm
by KNAPPO
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.