40L Guppie/Female Betta tank

@Wyvren,

Have you considered doing a DIY to upgrade the lights. You can easily then run 2x 23watt cfl.

Here is an example. Also the JeboR338

 

I had three carpets going in this tank with these lights: UG, dwarf hair grass & Lilaeopsis brasiliensis‎ together with some Co2. :bigsmile:

 

@gdt78

Ok ne! That is what I want! I will see if I can manage to convince someone in the family to do it for me. Can you tell me what I will need?

 

not bad! i also have the exact little jebo just black one. will actually also try it.

 

@Ryno

Can I tell you the secret?

No fiddling and no faffing as well as patience. It takes months to get it to this. But weirdly enough this tank is my easiest one to maintain. Im doing 1 water change every two weeks of 30% and add in ferts and excel when I remember....

 

its the hardest thing to to is NOT TO FIDDLE!!! hehe i have never kept red plants with success. even with 1w per liter of light

 

Nope you have to tell yourself leave it be for at least a month. No moving of plants, no trimming nothing. . .

You only start doing those things once you get a bit of growth . . . .

 

Pick n Pay sells the bayonet fittings in the same isle than the cfl tubes. Also you will need some electrical wire/rip cord and a plug of course.

I could have posted some photos of my previous scapes of this tank, but dont think the mods will like it too much due to the live stock in the tank.

 

my planted tanks also have very lush growth.. just i struggle with reds.. even finding reds. Potch is die gatkant van plante. dont really get veriety here.

 

LOL @gdt78 = No worries, I will try to get my brother to redo the lid for me. I have to check if we can do this to my smaller R310 as well. Especially since I cant find proper lights for these tanks.

 

But yes love your tank well done.

 

For your JeboR310 you can start with 1x 23watt cfl. I found some with a 6500 kelvin rating at spar.

 

Alternatively I still have my 8watt grolux tubes available lying in the garage which I bought from Altum. haha

 

LOL Nope I think I am going to do your diy I have a younger brother who is very handy, he did the lights for my 60L tank. Will we need ballasts? or anything like that?

 

All you need for the cfl light is the bayonet fitting. You get them also in plastic. Similar to the ones a desk lamp uses. I'll post a photo once I can find one.

 

Similar to this one.

 

@Wyvren, love your planted tank, it looks stunning, now I'm the one green with envy.

 

Snap!

Don't the light fittings get very wet and then blow?

 

Wet ? No, I had not one that got wet so far.

 

Havent fiddled with this tank to much - ok I lied I changed the background plants and also added the lillies that @Khalid sent me. If anyone in the CPT area wants one of these I have 3 to spare for now and if they do well will have more soon