Lucky 13

I'm gobsmacked! Too stunning for words!

 

Thanks Zafgak / Veegal .. It will fit into my Caddy - If I load and leave now I'll be in CT by morning - can not guarantee that the tank will look the same when I get to CT. - lol -

If you really want it in a speed service bag I do have a sledge hammer, but assembly instructions not included. hehe.

I am looking at all my tanks with a new eye to rip and replace / add a plant shelf / build a glass hood same hight as the tank.

 

I have been wanting to do this for a long time - now I see it real life - I just gotta get off my bum and get going.........

 

LoL f-fish.

How deep is your plant shelf?

 

This shelf is the same hight as the brim of the tank in the front and is 12 cm deep. I have a cascade 600 (I think) in the tank (left hand side) that pushes the water onto the shelf - a diy spray bar with big holes and an open end runs halfway down the shelf .. it is nested in a bed of hydroton. The hydroton is heaped against the back wall. All of this is covered with a moss that I got from the nursery (no clue what it is) plants are made to sit in / on the moss.

But as this grows I might have to add some barrier to stop things from growing off the shelf and pulling the lot into the tank.

 

I think I'm going to 'steal' this idea from you if you don't mind f-fish. I wanna try it on the 1m cube......or perhaps on the 2m - but either way, I'm going to have fun Thanks!!!! It's certainly is an inspiring set-up.

 

Not my idea - but go wild .. I do think this could make for a nice alternative to the typical way we keep fish and plants happy.

 

What a novel, and AWESOME idea! That is beautiful, F-Fish, well done!

 

This tank realy looks awesome ,,, for the guys in cape town, the supplier opposite milnerton fire station use to sell these tanks.

 

Thanks Madam, Donny - I do find it most intriguing that the plants that we buy at our LFS do way better outside the water than in it. All the plants except 3 have been on offer at some stage as a true aquatic plant.

So I have a new test - if I can get a plant to root in my DIY hydroponic bucket - it is probably not truly aquatic - if it dies because the leaves are not submersed - I will plant it in a tank.

 

The inhabitants in the tank are still the same - Angle, neon, glass catfish, some rummy-noses tetra and one SAE (albino). The tank health has been good. Removed the hydroton added some glass strips to make a container on the shelf ... water flows mostly from right to left - thanks to a slopping floor.

Attached a picture from todays water change - I like big water changes, the fish do not seem to mind in planted tanks (just what I have noticed, not that I talk fish) the pipe on the right is the siphon to the garden - the left water from the tap.

 

Very interesting little shelve you have in the back

 

Quick pictorial update ... all in good in lucky 13 land - I need to see about covering that back wall with something.

 

I do think that a moss wall, with terrestrial garden moss could work, for a background!

 

I like that idea ... thanks Gert - now I need to see if I can find normal moss somewhere, also need to figure what the medium would be - maybe a scotch pad or something. Let me go dig.

 

Amazing

 

Still impressive mate!

 

I think an update on this tank is due??

 

Hear hear. I'd specially like to see how the surface growth compares with its submerged halves

 

Come now F-fish, time for some more piccies