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  • 20L CRS/CBS Journal! - Ivan Sanchez

    So I thought I'd start posting junk on here about what i'm doing. Yes I know.... What do I have to offer in the terms of a shrimp journal? Well.... #1. mistakes! and Shrimp pics! and how lame I am....
    I want to keep CRS/CBS and i'll see if I wanna spend the money on PFR's later.

    Lets get started!

    My plans are 75%RO and 25% tap. Or maybe all RO. (I need to read up on this area more.)

    Substrate is floramax bottom layer and PFS on top(It looks cool but I don't know how long it'll stay for. Just wanted to experiment with sand)

    Since i'm wanting dwarf hair grass and HC to grow i'm going to add a co2 system. It's just a paintball system without a solenoid(with more money i'll buy a better one with solenoid) i'm planning on adding the lowest possible BPS so the plants can have something but low enough to where the shrimp don't die! I'll be adding an airstone for night time.

    i'll dose ferts but i'll treat it like it's a 10Gallon. so half the EI dose.

    The light is going to be CFL's I found this cool fixture plastic thing that is about the size of the length! 30" and i'm going to try to either rig the CFL's (3 or 4) or ghetto rig my 24" th50 nova fixture on it.

    Now pictures!

    This is my lighting as of now. 2 clamp on 13W daytime cfl's.



    My new Eheim 2217! Thanks Tran @ Fish Ranch! Runs like a champ!



    Spray bar in the middle on back of tank. Extended with extra hose. (I'm thinking of extending the spray bar to cover the whole back of the tank with extra hose and drilling holes in the eheim hose. Anyone against or for???)



    My Hygro Corymbosa "Kompact" Once again thanks to Tran!



    This is the HC patch! I really hope it works... I ordered a sweet patch of HC off a guy on theplantedtank and i'm gonna try the whole emersed route.



    Fissidens(aka super slow grower.....) and dwarf hair grass! The DHG will be covering the whole sand area.



    Some of the future inhabitants of the 20L!



    Feel free to help me out with your opinions and stuff and such. I am a noob at this and i'm running off forums and any internet sites that are helpful!

  • #2
    Looks like the mail man brought me a present!




    With 5ft of tubing! That's enough!

    Now to buy a paintball tank!

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    • #3
      Nice Pictures !

      I like it
      Mentally Challenged

      My Flickr

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      • #4
        Progress!!!

        I got HC in and it was a huge clump of HC. For what I paid it seems like I robbed the guy!




        And so I took out all the water, fissidens and hygro corymbosa <-- (out of the tank forever!!!)
        And so begins the emersed growth!
        FTS

        HC

        DHG

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        • #5
          And I got some sweet stems of butterfly for the 29 Gallon!

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          • #6
            Added an extra lamp to the tank! So.... 3 x 13w 6500k CFL's rated for 60w output! I don't know what the all equals to but it's a ton of light :)

            Thinking of growing some of the remaining HC in a plastic container :) Wish me luck with that

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            • #7
              Looks Great!
              Can't wait to see when the plants grow in!
              www.ventralfins.com

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              • #8
                looking good

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                • #9
                  I don't know how I feel about waiting a month for the HC and DHG to grow in.... I hate waiting! AH!
                  So far not much growth but they aren't melting! So I guess for my first emersed tank I'm doing great. Sprinkled very small amounts of Macro's NPK two days ago. I'm thinking for sprinkling micro's this weekend.
                  Separating some clumps of DHG to cover more ground today.

                  I wish I could keep updating with pictures but it's sloowww growth....

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                  • #10
                    Nice I made the same paintball co2 system. and gl on your tank :)

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                    • #11
                      Progress.

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